Miniature Modular Post Apocalyptic Walls - Wargaming Terrain Tutorial

This weeks video shows some techniques to build simple modular post apocalyptic walls for wargaming and tabletop terrain. The build is designed to be modular and easy to adapt to your tabletop terrain needs. I do show a step by step guide to building these walls, but my hope with this video is to show you a variety of techniques and materials that you can use to enhance your own build ideas to achieve a post apocalyptic look and feel. This wargaming terrain build uses simple materials, balsa wood, and cardboard primarily, and some previously shown detail effects such as colored sand. I hope you enjoy this video, and find it helpful for your own projects.
I look forward to adding to this build over time, and creating some more post apocalyptic terrain to compliment this build.
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[@davidsanchezplaza]

I keep coming back to this video time to time. is awesome

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks David!

[@NatesMiniatures]

A lot of work mate, well done. Your apocalyptic terrain pieces are really freaking good.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Nate!

[@davidsanchezplaza]

again I'm back. really love it

[@RFDHobby]

Cheers David. Thank you for watching and commenting mate.

[@chillumaperios1873]

My man this is a nice one, as always love the work can’t wait to see the next one

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks so much mate. Glad you enjoyed it, and I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. New stuff coming soon!

[@timhyland6834]

Another perfect Fallout build.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much.

[@michelleslutpuppy4355]

Great job on the show i like the way you did the job on it

[@MacucaLaBella]

Simple and beautiful. Excellent job! Thanks for sharing.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it mate.

[@jbarrachina]

Amazing with no doubt! Awesome job!!!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you mate!

[@gregriddett3163]

This is my favourite video, this type of terrain is perfect and looks great and it can be used in so many tabletop games.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks very much Greg!

[@HacksawsHobbyBunker]

Awesome! Scrappy yet well engineered. An excellent fortification for a settlement, raider camp, etc and can be done in an almost endless number of variations. The signs and basing really make it pop. Cheers!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you mate!

[@modelsfromscratch]

Definitely some great ideas in that. What a really handy bunch of terrain too. Like your approach with the I-beams, I'm always trying to glue the whole thing at once. Starting with the ends first is a great idea, Can't wait to have a go at this myself. Really inspiring stuff as always.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Alan. Good luck with your build mate.

[@poetry3652]

Looks great!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much!

[@johnkelley9877]

Incredible work! It looks great and I am amazed at the amount of scratch building. This was really worth the wait. Thanks for sharing this.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks John. I'll admit there was a bit more work involved in this one, but I think it paid off this time. Thanks for watching and commenting mate.

[@BillMakingStuff]

Love them! great build

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you mate!

[@Tukkerted]

nice build! thanks for sharing it

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Mark. Glad you enjoyed it mate.

[@perrygrosshans8537]

Looks awesome! Another great video as usual. Lots of nice tips. Eric at Eric's Hobby Workshop has I-beams in a lot of his builds, but using balsa wood as a material is an interesting idea. Love the walkways and modularity! Thanks for the inspirational video!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Perry. Balsa is a really great material to use for this sort of thing. I find it a little easier to work with than the chipboard for the smaller stuff. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment mate.

[@creaturescavernscrafting2929]

Junk walls that would make any mutant envious! Great work and thanks for the video.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks. I appreciate the comment mate.

[@EssexBoyz]

Great looking stuff mate, really good clear and concise tutorial 😃👍🏼

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks very much. Glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@Weez-2_The-Beez]

Hey man I just ran across your channel looking for ideas for my Post Apocalypse games and this video popped up. Great job on the walls!!! Very inspirational and a lot of great techniques that I’ll be sure to use when I get around to building my Post Apocalyptic Survivor Settlement to fend off all the Raiders, Mutants, Zombies and other Undesirables trying to get into my Settlement!!! Keep up the good work 👍

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Matt. Glad you enjoyed the video mate. My hope is that generally each video will have something of value in there that people might use on their own builds. Cheers for the comment. Good luck on your settlement!

[@jagelsdorf1385]

Awesome detail! Respect that you went with making all the beams yourself, I would probably just use old sprues or something. Great job!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks mate. I'm a sucker for punishing myself with some of these builds. I made 5 of these wall sections, so it did get a bit old making all those beams towards the end :) . Sprues is a great idea though.

[@DevsDice]

Nice build mate! Going to be a nice thing to add on! Oh and also, thanks for the shout-out man! 😉

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you Leif. You're very welcome for the shout out. I'm glad we're able to collaborate during the build process to help each other to get the most out of our projects.

[@DafterThings]

Looks fantastic. Love the detail and the fact they're modular. Corrugated card is superb. I try to recycle it from the middle of cardboard boxes but, sometimes, it's just to easy to buy it 😀

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks. yeah this corrugated card stuff is great, it's not overly expensive and the scale seems to be just right. Thank you for watching and commenting mate.

[@mxkinist]

fantastic work as always.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you mate.

[@RupertFoulmouth]

Great work as always

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks very much!

[@ched---]

I'm just getting back into 40k after briefly collecting as a child. I've decided that kill team is a good way to get started and these videos have really been inspiring me to make myself a gaming board. Cheers for that. Fantastic content btw, love how chill it is. Keep it up brother.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks G. I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Good luck with your gaming board mate.

[@ched---]

@@RFDHobby Cheers man. Keep the content coming 👌

[@martindunn4545]

I'm getting some old school mad max vibes from this. I like the idea of using signs and markings to hammer in that salvaged look! I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff like it.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Martin. Mad max was definitely a bit of inspiration for this one.

[@martindunn4545]

@@RFDHobby Speaking of mad max, do you think you'd do either terrain or vehicles for the gaslands game? I think your style would fit right in!

[@RFDHobby]

@@martindunn4545 next video planned is weathering up some vehicles, I'm planning more ruined wrecks and stuff, but if i can eventually get my hands on some bits and pieces I'd love to mod some vehicles for gaslands.

[@martindunn4545]

@@RFDHobby I'll be keeping an eye out for it! And just as a quick side note, have you ever thought of doing mini painting videos? I always enjoys seeing the ones you display with the terrain.

[@RFDHobby]

@@martindunn4545 I have, I did one a little while ago where I painted up the Space Marine Dreadnought, and I really enjoyed it. I mean I can't paint half as well as most of the youtube channels out there, but I really do enjoy it, so maybe I will do a few more of those this year and see how it goes. Thanks Martin.

[@LostandFoundTravel]

Saw the post on IG - HAD TO see it here live.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you!

[@benhayden9198]

Nice one, would work well for ork terrain👍

[@RFDHobby]

It sure does. Thanks for watching and commenting Ben.

[@gregoris2474]

Great tutorial. I hope there are more Gaslands themed tutorials

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks. I've been looking into it a lot more, I really love the theme and possibities for getting some really cool pieces on the table for a game. I'll try to get something happening in the future mate. Thank you for watching and comment, and sorry for the late reply. Cheers.

[@onkelgroen]

Strong Gorkamorka vibe... Or Borderlands, of course! I thought it would look great on that desert battlemat, and lo and behold there it was. :)

[@RFDHobby]

Cheers man.

[@Jeffs40K]

for color to brighten it up, start by Building a Fallen Bill board, with a colorful picture, then Clue on Pre painted Metal plates about it leavening gaps and such, another idea is to to it to railway cars, from old train sets, that could have graffiti on it, box cars with bed rolls, etc in them or cars that carry Dirt, have aside cut so they can get in it and shoot out from cover. for base you could still have a wall of cars still sitting on tracks.. this looks like old forts from gorkamorka 8)

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks for the great advice mate. I've been looking for train cars for a while now, bit hard to find apparently. Cheers.

[@johnrevill1087]

I know you've probably heard this before but I prefer to pre paint the panels both sides before attaching them to which project I'm working that requires them saves getting fiddly painting the harder to reach but visible bits

[@RFDHobby]

Yeah that's probably a good idea, nothing like finding those annoying little sections that have missed the paint. I generally hit most of my builds with a watered down mod podge and black paint mix to help with the strength and try to get into all those areas that are hard to reach and build up from that black. That way I can leave those hard to reach areas and call it shadow. But it depends what you're going for too, you're method would definitely up the overall quality of something like this. Thanks for the comment mate, I appreciate the suggestions.

[@nightfall89z62]

May already be in the comments somewhere, but these look like the sorts of things that orks would build in 40k, or maybe the sort of thing that you would find in something like a fallout setting. Good job.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks mate. I was really inspired by some of the settings in mad max for this one, but as it was coming together I was also getting those Ork vibes.

[@nightfall89z62]

@@RFDHobby actually, goblins in d&d might build something like this too, different signs obviously, nothing quite this modern, but it could still work....

[@RFDHobby]

@@nightfall89z62 Great idea. You could certainly use more of the balsa to add in more timber elements and signs to fit the dnd setting. The I-Beams could be easily replaced with more simple timber beams as well. My hope with this one was to inspire similar ideas around this fairly easy project. When I start on some more dnd terrain pieces I might revisit this idea and see what I can manage. Thanks.

[@nightfall89z62]

@@RFDHobby no problem.

[@Sylarsuedy]

Great

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you!

[@NeoNaiche]

Really innovative idea, and so well executed! Do you think the chipboard for the girders would work so well? I have plenty of that chipboard, and it’d be far less expensive for me to build it from chipboard.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks. I think the chipboard will work fine, I like to work with the balsa wood for smaller stuff like this as it's clean and cuts very easy, but chipboard will do the same job. I have made some in the past with chipboard when I did the large ruined building, they were a little larger than this, but still worked perfectly.

[@orcpaintshop355]

WAAAGAH NICE MAN NICE!!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks man!

[@HeroesBosses]

Nicely done sir! Do you find that the cardboard warps much when you add texture paste and/or paint to it?

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks. There can be some mild warping with the card depending on the build (these for example being built right up to the edges of the base prevented much of the warping). Painting/coating the underside of the base helps to counter any major warping as well. The thing I do like about the card over say a foamboard base, is the it can still be manually bent back even after everything has dried, and it will generally hold. The new video I'm working on had this issue more than most due to the build, but even with sand and rocks attached across the surface, I'm able to manipulate it back to level at the end of the project. It's definitely worth playing around with to see if it works for you. I hope this helps mate. Thanks for the comment.

[@TomJones0065]

This is Pretty AWESOME!! So I try to use supper glue on small wood projects and it never seems to work well, WHAT kind do you use! OMG! lol.. THANKS MAN! Great Build!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Tom. I was having awful trouble with super glue for this sort of thing as well. I tried a few of the expensive brands and they just weren't working, but then I found a pack of 10 small tubes for $1.50 at the hardware store and this stuff works amazing for the balsa wood. I'm not sure what the difference is, but the expensive stuff was just rubbish for the balsa wood. If you're in Australia, I can probably find the link for the stuff I use.

[@TomJones0065]

@@RFDHobby yep, I found that out too. Went to a Dollar store, the glue works fine! I so Love your videos, very very inspiring! Be safe!! Thank you!!

[@locolarkin8529]

Great job. Looks really cool. It's remainds me to Mád Max móviles. ;)

[@RFDHobby]

Awesome, I'm really happy to hear that, as the Mad Max movies were my main inspiration for this build! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@davidparsons1718]

What card did you use for the bases on these..?..you mention 1mm card...would that be normal cereal box card or chipboard..?

[@RFDHobby]

That was actually the chipboard card for these. But I've found if you're keeping the base small and close to all the build elements you're attaching it too, you can get away with cereal box cardboard without getting warping. With cardboard you can generally still bend it back into shape if you have trouble.

[@jonhinton8846]

Looks like Megaton walls from Fallout 3

[@RFDHobby]

haha thank you Jon. I appreciate that mate.

[@ironjehoshaphat2764]

What size toy cars have the right scale tires?

[@RFDHobby]

I was just grabbing the 1:43 scale cars and using those tyres, they're too big for the scale, but they were the cheapest option I could find, and I didn't mind the vehicles as terrain pieces either. I think you want something closer to hotwheels tyres if you're looking for correct scale.

[@ironjehoshaphat2764]

@@RFDHobby thanks. I hope to make terrain for a game called BLKOUT. It is a skirmish game and in an urban setting cars and tires would be great to have. Even larger tires could be from construction vehicles.

[@Evil_Misfit_]

The cardstock you use for a base doesn't warp?

[@RFDHobby]

There can be some slight warping with the card. Although, I find it's still pliable enough to be moved slightly as needed, even after the ground cover has gone on. It's definitely something to think about, but the benefits of using the card win for me at the moment. Thanks for the question.

[@Evil_Misfit_]

@@RFDHobby thank you for the reply. LOVE your work! I've been looking at making a warehouse for a campaign and I needed a refresher on your videos

[@panagiotisgkotsis2518]

❤️🇬🇷

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you !!!

[@jackhartford521]

“Who run Bartertown?”

[@RFDHobby]

You know who

[@davidsanchezplaza]

this build is really great. I think no need of balsa since is expensive, and don't provide metal look good enough. why didn't u show the construction of the door? great build

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks David. The balsa isn't probably the cheapest or best solution, but it's such a nice material to work with. I found a small balsa kit at the local hardware store that includes a good selection of different balsa wood pieces to work with that isn't too expensive, which is why I've used it here. As for the door, I'm sorry it's not included, I think I cut that footage for the sake of time, as 20+mins is already a very long video. I'll be sure to include the process next time I work on something similar. Cheers for your comment mate.

[@petermellors6456]

Plasticard Ibeams save loads of time