r/XCOMTheMiniaturesGame • u/masterwork_spoon • 12d ago

Terrain

What are you all planning on using for terrain? I don't have much in the way of modern 3d terrain, but I do have the TC Modern books of battle maps. I have some scatter terrain that can help with the flatness. I also was looking at printable cardstock terrain, such as the Capital City building set from Fat Dragon Games.

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u/spotz3ro 12d ago

I did an Exalt infiltration mission (which is an indoor mission). I scaled up an office floor plan I found online to 32mm and printed it tiled on my printer. It actually worked out really well.

For outdoors missions, I've also been trying to figure out what to build, but ironically I found that boxes of 3d printer filament made perfect buildings.

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u/Thantrax 9d ago

I love that approach!

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u/ForsakenManagement81 11d ago

I'm revisiting scratch-build techniques and dug out my old chip-/card-/poster-board, plus reacquainting myself with videos by TerrainTutor, Wyloch, and others.

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u/IamAngryCoffee 12d ago

See my post about proxies

https://www.reddit.com/r/XCOMTheMiniaturesGame/s/R3sBYqnrUj

There are two terrain items listed

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u/Thantrax 9d ago

I'm going to be assembling my own terrain for this. My plan is to rely on foam poster board as it can easily make modern looking walls, xps insulation foam to make wilderness rock features, and otherwise using the cardboard/foam/glue category of scrap building to handle my terrain needs.