Celebrating 6 Years of Terrain Magic! 🎉 + Ask me anything! + plans(COMMERCIAL)

[Brutal Cities]

Brutal Cities has now been making terrain for 6 years!

I thought it would be good to share some of my favourite designs and talk about our terrain ranges, if you’re not familiar with our terrain.

Backstory:

-I worked in architecture for 5 years before launching Brutal Cities

-Brutal cities focuses on brutalist and modernist inspired terrain

-Our main products are laser cut MDF designs, made in Sydney, Australia

-We have a small but expanding STL collection too

-Our terrain is designed to balance practicality, gameplay, aesthetics and cost - and many of the designs are such so you can use them for multiple settings - from 40k to Infinity.

-We offer epic scale terrain, 15mm and 28-35mm designs.

Read on for a quick overview and cool pics of the ranges!





Here’s a picture of my brother and I playing a game of Zona Alfa in 15mm. There’s a battle report on the website blog if you’d like to learn more about Zona Alfa. I’m currently designing more 15mm terrain for the campaign, and painting up my 15mm forces from various miniature suppliers.


3D Printable terrain



The collection of stls is slowly growing.
The epic scale Brutalist library and vantann office building are perfect for 6/8mm, 10mm and 15mm games.
The highlights include a bundle of terrain for games with eastern european setting such as Zona Alfa. These STLs suit 10-28/32mm games.

View the 3d printable stls here



Adamant - Modular fortress terrain




The Adamant Complex is a subrange of terrain kits designed to quickly and easily section off your tabletop with modular walls and fortifications. Simple but really effective, the walls in particular are just great value and work really well for all sorts of games, from 40k Killteam to Infinity.

Learn more at Brutal Cities



Bruteopolis - 28-35mm terrain



Bruteopolis - One terrain range for many games!  This is our main range.
28mm MDF terrain kits for you to use in multiple game settings to give you epic value. Perfect for Infinity terrain, cyberpunk games, 40k tables & modern wargaming. Typically taller than most terrain on the market, build your suburban table into a real city.

Grab the terrain at Brutal Cities



Trapper Biotech

Lightweight, practical nesting terrain for 28-35mm games.




Choose from 2 options - the original premium fadelight modules with translucent glazing - perfect for lighting up with LED’s!  Or you can choose the more grimdark/necromunda vibe genesis modules - amazing value here, our most economical terrain yet! Check them out on the  website.


Epic Scale terrain




This has been a favourite project of mine - terrain designed to give you amazing value, especially if you play more than one scale.
The proportions and materials used have been chosen so one set of terrain can work with 6/8mm, 10mm and even 15mm terrain!

I won’t go into too much detail here as the epic scale terrain page here gives you more info on how this is possible.
Oh - and one building design, the transformer tower, even works with 6mm, 15m and even 28mm!



What’s next?

Some more 28mm terrain - the popular Eternity labs deserves an L shape module, and I have a small but practical way to make modular bunkers with the adamant walls, and there will be a ruined version of the Brutalist Civic centre. More STLs too!

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With a brief 6 month hiatus last year, Brutal Cities is back to full production of MDF terrain.

BIRTHDAY SALE



And to celebrate the 6th year of business, there's a discount code for you if you want to pick up any terrain.

You can get a 10% discount with the code

BRUTAL6

Until the 12th May!


Ask me anything!


If you have any questions about what it's like running a terrain business or anything, feel free and I'll answer ASAP!
Cheers,
Ryan

[hubbabubba]

I really like your stuff, I'd like to get some, but shipping is a killer.

Do you have a distributer in Europe?

If you don't have you thought about it?

[Brutal Cities]

I really like your stuff, I'd like to get some, but shipping is a killer.

Do you have a distributer in Europe?

If you don't have you thought about it?

No distro yet, it takes a while for one person to set up, and I've been just staying afloat the last year or so with the unexpected change of workshop for 6 months.....so haven't had time to get a move on sorting that out! - do you know of any big laser cutting companies that are reputable?

[Ragsta]

There’s Warbases in the UK I believe. They seem decent sorts.

[fred]

Another UK option would be Pendraken - whilst mainly known as a figure manufacturer they have a lot of laser cut products now.

If you could agree a licensing deal with a UK firm it would be good - should be a steady flow of money for you for little work, and reduced shipping for us!!

[Brutal Cities]

Thanks guys,I appreciate it!

I used to do more sales to the UK before brexit actually! And now the trump tarrifs...It's hard i gotta say!
The Australian market is too small alone - see what happened to Knights of Dice...

[HerbertTarkel]

Congrats! Are you selling out of Australia? Went to Melbourne for 2 weeks thanks to mrstarkel having a business trip last year. First class flights on a corporate ticket? Yes, please! 
She worked, I brought a bike with me and cycled all over - what a way to see Melbourne.

I’m in Canada. No tariffs here for Australians! CAN-NZ-AUS-UK-EU needs a strong alliance to break the meth lab below my country from being too invasive. Canadians are actively boycotting American goods!

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Re: Reputable mdf/laser cutting in U.K. I’d second Warbases as being an excellent, helpful and professional business - exactly the type of people I’d do business with if needed (more than just my bits of hobby nonsense - all of which they’ve done excellently).

There’s also Sarissa Precision and TTCombat - both U.K. and have only had good experiences dealing with them personally.

All worth an investigation,

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[hubbabubba]

I'd go for someone in Europe rather than the UK, Brexit screwed us all over. In  Spain you have banduawargames who do lasercut scenery, or you might try someone like battlefieldberlin or miniaturicum in Germany purely as a retailer for the European market.
There's also a fair few Polish outlets that might make sense. What about a deal with Micro Art Studio?

[aliensurfer]

I'd love to get some of your stuff, but shipping rules it out really for me. An European distrbuter would be great. Or the ability to buy files to self laser cut.