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20mm Terrain

Airfix Jungle Outpost

Sarissa 20mm Far East Huts

A Pagoda for Burma

Sarissa 20mm Colonial House

Train Station for the Far East

Palm Trees for the Pacific

Jungle Terrain

Making Paddy Fields

Bunkers and spider holes for the Far East

German Farmhouses and Barns

German Railway signal box

Making simple railway signals

20mm Eastern Front villages

Getting Ready for Storming the Citadel Part 1
(Minefields, Observation Posts, Rough Ground, Platoon Boards)

Russian villages
(Carts, Wooden Fences)

Sarissa 20mm Terrace Houses

Greenhouse and scatter terrain

Building a 1940s French Garage

French War Memorial

Sarissa 20mm Large Factory

Sarissa 20mm Village Church

Facelift for a Lift Bridge

Tiling MDF roofs

Scratch building with foam core

Some thoughts on basing buildings


Making a Ruined City table

Making Culverts

Rommel's Asparagus


Pillboxes for 1940

Making a wrecked T34

Dug-in PzIV

Making Trees

Making Pine Forests

Orchards for (almost) any Scale

Tree lined roads and bocage

Teddy Bear fur fields

Making Shell holes

Setting Terrain on Fire

Making a Desert Terrain Mat

Rocky outcrops for desert terrain
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