Miniature Brick Walls for Wargaming Terrain and Tabletop Games

This weeks wargaming terrain tutorial I cover how to make some simple brick walls for your tabletop games. The main construction of these is simple foam board with a cereal box cardboard base, and then finished with whatever details you have laying around to add. We will even use up most of the scraps from our foam board construction, to fill out some of the rubble and ground cover. Look out for my mistakes in this one, hopefully I've pointed them out well enough to avoid them yourself :) . It wasn't anything that broke the project, I just slowed myself down quite a bit by being an idiot and not thinking about what I was doing...
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[@DiceChatter]

It’s not the size of your foam board that matters, it’s what you build with it! Lovely build mate.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Donny. Your comments mean the world to me.

[@NatesMiniatures]

There is something really satisfying seeing miniature pallets and bricks get put together, great video Shawn hope you are able to get the support for the new equipment.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Nate. I'll get there eventually. Thanks for commenting mate.

[@markchristy9704]

"Happy little mistakes". Very nice! Your stuff has been very helpful. Appreciate what you're doing. Thanks!

[@RFDHobby]

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching and commenting. Take care.

[@PoilQC]

Good thing I saved up a bunch of foam bricks! I might try and modify your technique. Thanks for the video :)

[@RFDHobby]

No problem, and thanks for watching and commenting. Good luck, and I'd love to know what you do and how it goes.

[@revenantworkshop175]

Your channel has entered the "soon as it's uploaded I watch" category! Excellent as always! 👏

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much! That's high praise. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@justinhealey2408]

Thanks.for sharing awesome work again

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks very much.

[@earlkriewall7251]

Thank you for an instructional video. I picked up several tips from how you painted the bricks.

[@RFDHobby]

Glad I could help! Good luck with your bricks. Thanks for the comment.

[@stef4537]

posters in the 41st millenium lol :-) great build :-)

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks!

[@HacksawsHobbyBunker]

Masonry, but without miniature secret handshakes. Excellent build! Depending on what bits are added to the base/walls these will cover a quite wide number of periods/genres, so a plus for that. Cheers!

[@RFDHobby]

No worries mate. Thank you for watching. These are going to be great on a number of different battlefields.

[@creaturescavernscrafting2929]

Great looking walls! Perfect scatter terrain and easy to build!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you. I'm really happy with how these turned out. Cheers for the comment.

[@Alexuuuuus]

great job! looks amazing!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much!

[@johnkelley9877]

This was a great tutorial! The bricks look good and the ground cover really gives it a realistic look. Thanks for sharing this.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks John. It was my pleasure mate. Thank you for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it. Cheers.

[@christianb.2360]

Thanks for the Inspiration 👌🏼

[@RFDHobby]

My pleasure mate. Glad I could help.

[@earthmanbrick]

Really nice work, & I have brick in my name so you know I'm an authority on such matters. Seriously though these look very nice

[@RFDHobby]

Cheers. They were definitely a learning experience...took too long because of my stupid mistakes haha. But I'm really happy with these, they were totally worth it in the end.

[@BoysOfCinnamonCat]

Looks great, I enjoy making terrain, and getting inspired to do more.

[@RFDHobby]

Great to hear. Thank you very much for watching and commenting.

[@BoysOfCinnamonCat]

@@RFDHobby You're welcome.

[@DevsDice]

Nicely done Shawn! Next time we use a big pen! 😂 Also, one thing that I am sure I have told you, using a wider sharpie pen can also work since the alcohol melts the xps foam ever so slightly. Works wonders especially when going "against the grain". Good job man! 👍

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Leif. Yeah I should have tried that haha. Thanks mate, I'll remember for next time.

[@MKempICI]

Alternatives to the mechanical pencil: - A dull, normal pencil. - Embossing tools. Basically, a small ball on a stick. Hold it like a pencil, and run it gently down the gaps you have cut. Great for stones that should have more rounded edges, in particular. - A nail file. One of the cheap ones with a plastic grip and fairly thick metal. I would use this in a three part process: Score the line, widen with the blunt pencil, deepen with the file.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Matthew. Great ideas, and I'll keep them in mind in the future. I use the mechanical pencil for marking cracks and stuff in the foam and it looks really good, but it was definitely not the tool for the job here. Thanks for the comment and suggestions mate.

[@jamesedwards8175]

Hmmmm... I wonder if you could mix some paint into the spackle and leave some of it on the bricks to give it a "plaster wall" like look. Neat video though!

[@RFDHobby]

I think that would work James. Might be worth a try next. Thanks mate.

[@cams.2083]

Going to make these for 15mm scale... Wish me luck! 🤞😬

[@RFDHobby]

Good luck mate! Finding a compromise for the scale of the bricks was what I went with in the end. Even at 28-32mm they're just so damn tiny if you go to scale. Left me wishing for a laser cutter or something similar :) I guess at the end of the day it's just a matter of spending a bit more time to get tiny bricks. All the best, I hope it works out.

[@Abominus69]

Hi, what method do you like to use to remove the paper from the foam board initially? Thanks!

[@RFDHobby]

Hey there, I have a video it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHacgXyLhs-Virs . It's not the easiest method, but it's the only one that works for me. I hope that helps :)

[@Abominus69]

@@RFDHobby Thanks. I had a quick look through all your video titles but my eyes must have run out of battery and I missed it.

[@chillumaperios1873]

Thanks for the content mate lovely build as always. I was wondering were is that pigment powder from I would love to try some.

[@RFDHobby]

No problem mate. Glad you're enjoying it. This pigment is Langridge brand, pretty common I think, I pick mine up at the local art store, sometimes I have to order it if they don't have the particular one I want, but the series 1 pigments are super cheap, they increase in cost depending on the pigment colour itself. The main colours I use are series 1, so nice and cheap to buy. Let me know if I can help further.

[@chillumaperios1873]

Thank you so much for the reply my man I’m going to pick some up on Saturday..your a true champion, an ambassador for a channel that is so educational ! Is there a way I could get in touch with you to support the channel in a small way ?

[@balobahamonde728]

Hi, excuse me, can you help me with the link of the sponge in amazon, thanks

[@RFDHobby]

Hi mate, sorry for the late reply. You can try this link for the foam board... amzn.to/3bNFXn0 Cheers.

[@shotou]

This is dope dude, I'm just not sure where the devil I'd get foam board.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks mate. That sucks about the foam board. I hope you find another solution, or some foam board soon man.

[@shotou]

@@RFDHobby where do you get yours mate?

[@RFDHobby]

@@shotou I get mine from Officeworks here in Australia. You can also sometimes find it at Spotlight. I hope this helps mate.

[@BullScrapPracEff]

Brick walls are thicker than one brick. Might help for weight by putting washers (or coins) between the layers.

[@RFDHobby]

Great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.