6 easy, cheap DIY Warhammer 40k terrain ideas

Learn how to make barrels, barricades, buildings and more in this easy to follow, beginner-friendly tutorial.

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[dragondaddy]

I just went to Amazon and looked up 15mm coupler and got under "customers also viewed" chipboard sheets, silly straws, plastic aquarium undergravel filter board, start collecting Space Marines...

[Draculord]

That barrel idea is genius, I've never seen that before.

[manfredgesink]

I'm such a hobby veteran, that I remember the times very well, when GW didn't even had terrain-kits and encouraged costom building your own. I love it.

[Jonatron]

So when I look up aquarium gravel filters suddenly I'm swamped by suggestions to look at chipboard, silly straws and copper 15mm couplings. You folks have budged the algorithm.

[adriannaranjo]

Why is this the first I'm hearing of silly straws?? They seem like the mini pipe holy grail

[wayner]

Terrain is easily one of my favorite parts of miniature gaming.

Love your terrain videos. Keep it up.

[samtolputt]

the creativity in this video is mind boggling

[elijahhaase]

That is hands down the absolute best idea for barrels I have ever come across! Thank you!

[earlgrey]

THIS is why i fell in love with 40k as a teenager. Building your own world to play in was just as much part of the fun as the minis, the lore or actually playing the damn game. Long weekends of creativity, painting, making a mess with glue, searching trashcans and the woods outdoors for materials, drinking iced tea and listening to music with friends... good times.

[MichaelLee-xulm]

I find a lot of terrain guides try to make it sound like they're really easy, but they actually require you to have all sorts of specific extra tools/materials on hand. These legitimately seem like I could just go and build them once I have the key component of each piece!

[AaronCheck-dxud]

I don't think thank you suffices. Such creativity from painting tutorials, game narratives, terrain. You are truly a blessing to the hobby wargaming YouTube community!

[RedJesseGaming]

as someone who just bought his first set (warhammer 40k recruit edition) your videos and tutorials are amazing, and this video is just genius! i had no clue what i was gonna do about terrain stuff but now i do

[calebbilling]

Terrain Tutor, Wyloch's Armoury and Tales of Middle-Earth are all great for tutorials if you're interested in terrain building.

[SparksD]

Gotta thumbs up just because of the KMFDM! This is some Ultra Terrain to go along with some Ultra Heavy Beats!

[Novasky]

Polystyrene end pieces out of electrical goods boxes.
Plaster of paris poured into a bucket of sand mould, for assorted domes and towers.
Wedding cake pillars.
Aquarium skulls and rock outcrops and plastic plants.
Scaletrix roads and model railway trees.
Empty Tincans and cut up drinks bottles, yogurt pots and deodorant can lids.
We didn't have ebay or terrain kits in our day XD

[tracys]

How did I not think of using under gravel fish filter? Genius !

[sassythesasquatch]

I like making tank stoppers from the left over sprues

[manlyman]

This guy is a hero and deserves a medal for making this video

[RedBairnMedia]

Oh that second edition Gretchen...
Memories, misty water coloured memories.

[Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

Little tip on foamboard cutting. Use a heavy Duty Utility Blade, and cut at low angles. Cut several pieces, then flip the blade. Have spares. Hone the blades on a piece of leather (leather has silica strands that are abrasive to steel) by finding the blade's natural cut angle, and pulling towards you and then lifting straight up in an L motion. Resist the urge to flip the blade at the end of the movement in a J motion. The edge will be destroyed otherwise.