I love the roads on these boards, but it's a shame there are so many seams Despite their skill at replicating the natural world with bits of foam and paint, there are a few artifacts that always creep in that spoil the illusion for me: seams and corners.

I looked at tons of terrain boards and tutorials built by masters of the hobby. I learned a ton these folks and highly recommend checking out their sites and videos: I've never built a terrain board, so I searched for examples and tutorials by those who have more experience creating wargame terrain. Terrain Boards Part 6: Grass and Vegetation.Terrain Boards Part 3: Cutting the River.Here's a full list of my terrain board posts. Update: I've made a lot of progress since this first post. I've begun working on some terrain boards as the basis for skirmishes set in northern Europe (Saga, Lion Rampant, WWII ETO, fantasy battles, etc.) Constructing that large wargame table is at least a year in the future, but I couldn't stand my plain green terrain mat anymore. I have plans to create a large 9 x 5 foot grassy terrain cloth, similar to my desert wasteland cloth, but that requires a 9 x 5 foot table which I don't have. The fields, walls, buildings and trees that cover our wargame tables have such a great impact on the look of the game, they may actually be more vital to creating the overall look of a wargame rather than the figures themselves.

I've always loved the diorama aspect of wargames, but my focus always tends to drift towards painting up figures rather than making terrain.

How to make wargames terrain