Help Finding Appropriate Terrain

[spect_spidey]

I am hoping that the members here can help me locate a place to purchase some terrain suitable for games based in Egypt or desert terrain. I have suitable places to locate jungle and city terrain, but I have not been successful in finding terrain similar to what Dave uses in his Pulp Alley videos. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am not opposed to buying from overseas, but I would prefer U.S. sources if possible. Thanks in advance for any replies.

[Ballardian]

 If you're not averse to exercising your construction muscles (or allergic to PVA) I'd wholeheartedly recommend Hirst Arts molds, they've got a good Egyptian range & once you've got them it's cheap to build.

 hirstarts.com/molds/moldsegypt

[tin shed gamer]

Green stuff world.

Has some useful items .plus a rolling pin which makes impressions of hieroglyphs.

[ichwillauch]

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=227_40

Scotia Grendel has a large range of ancient egyptian ruins

[Chris Abbey]

David also uses quite a lot of Sally 4th Exotic Location terrain.



http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/exotic-locations

[has.been]

A visit to the aquatic section of a pet store should provide a basis of some terrain.
On this forum I have seen some very good use of Play-mobile toys, suitably tarted up.

[spect_spidey]

If you're not averse to exercising your construction muscles (or allergic to PVA) I'd wholeheartedly recommend Hirst Arts molds, they've got a good Egyptian range & once you've got them it's cheap to build.

 hirstarts.com/molds/moldsegypt

The link is invalid.

[d phipps]

http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/exotic-locations

Yup, I use lots of terrain from Sally 4th. It's easy to put together, durable, and works for lots of different settings. Great stuff! 

[Dr Mathias]

The link is invalid.

Maybe: http://www.hirstarts.com/molds/moldsegypt.html

I personally use home made stuff, Sally 4th, Hirst, and little odds and ends from Crocodile games.

[spect_spidey]

Yup, I use lots of terrain from Sally 4th. It's easy to put together, durable, and works for lots of different settings. Great stuff! 

What are the other buildings that I have seen in your videos? The ones that look like stucco or adobe? I haven't seen ones like that before. I have only seen the Sarissa Precision, 4Grounds, and Plastcraft buildings in that style. I have looked at some of the Sally 4th items in the past. But it always comes back to my experience with modular stuff like Dwarven Forge that kills it for me. I also am not a fan of the cost of overseas shipping for stuff like this. It always seems that the expense in shipping nearly costs as much as I am planning to spend.

I checked out the Hirst Arts page. While interesting, I am not inclined to spend a lot of time on molding/crafting. My hobby time is limited to say the least and I prefer to spend it playing rather than building items to play.

Most of my current terrain consists of Plastcraft Saga Coloured Desert buildings, a set of resin temple walls, toy cars, Walking Dead plastic scenery kit, Plastcraft Coloured Malifaux items, Dust Tactics Tenement Buildings/Quonset Huts and Dwarven Forge Dungeon/Cavern Tiles (which almost never see use). I did purchase one TT Combat barn and I was impressed with it. I plan to purchase some more of their brownstones and such. They just don't fit in with the north Africa vibe I am looking for right now.

Some of the Scotia Grendel items looked to be of use for excavation sites in the future. Right now I want to try and focus on some buildings. I figure they will be harder to locate than scatter terrain down the line. As mentioned, I can try the local Petsmart to obtain some appropriate scatter terrain.

I do appreciate all the suggestions though. Please keep them coming.

[Codsticker]

Lunesdargent- I have never bought any of their stuff so I cannot vouch for the quality but it does look like something you may be interested in.

[spect_spidey]

Lunesdargent- I have never bought any of their stuff so I cannot vouch for the quality but it does look like something you may be interested in.

I did stumble upon them while searching. It looked promising except they have the same issue as Dwarven Forge. The walls have floors attached meaning I would have to make use of floor pieces as well. This gets expensive quick. I learned this when I spent over $500 on Dwarven Forge only to discover that I still couldn't fill a 3'x3' table with what I had bought. LOL

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=137_138&products_id=733
Is what I currently have. I love the look of it and it allows to set up rooms of all sizes without having to worry about floors. Plus it is also pretty cheap for what you get.

[Panama]

What kind of terrain is it your looking for ? is it building market place stuff ?
this is for a building, http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/epages/950003459.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950003459/Products/MUDBH

Market stalls, http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/epages/950003459.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950003459/Products/SFEX5

There are sites that do these type of thing on your side of the pond as well if you narrow down the things you need I'm sure the lads on here will help you out with them.

[gweirda]

Paper (cardstock) stuff works as well - especially for a game that involves players 'in the moment' so that they look beyond the physical and see the representation.

I don't have any links at hand, but they're out there.

[d phipps]

I'd also suggest checking out Crescent Root -- http://crescent-root.com/pages/Product/28mm/28mm_series1/28mm_series1.html

Note -- Although I have wanted to get some of their stuff, I don't actually own any of it yet.

Anyhoo, it looks good and I believe they are US based. It is worth a look......