TerrainFest 2023 Begins! Spend A Month Building Terrain With OnTableTop & Win A Prize!
October 1, 2023 by crew
Join us this October for a month of wargame terrain-building fun using our Project System! We hope our TerrainFest 2023 will inspire and motivate you to elevate the quality of your gaming tables and that by the end of the month, you won't be playing with shoebox houses and books stuffed under gaming mats!
While many of us dedicate significant time to painting our armies, the landscapes we wage battles on often get overlooked. We hope TerrainFest will ignite your passion for crafting and painting terrain, motivating you to craft epic battlefields that complement your formidable armies!
What Types of Terrain Can You Create?
In short, you're free to create anything you desire for any genre of tabletop game.
We're opening up TerrainFest to all kinds of terrain making. You might opt to craft a plethora of scatter terrain pieces to adorn your gaming board, providing essential cover against incoming fire. Alternatively, you could embark on crafting a complete tabletop landscape teeming with houses, woods, fields, and more. Even if you decide to focus on a single terrain piece and complete it over the month, that's a commendable goal that could become a standout feature during your next tabletop escapade.
We eagerly welcome all forms of terrain-making processes, whether it's assembling off-the-shelf kits, crafting kit-bashed marvels, utilizing 3D printing or laser cutting, or simply engaging in a creative session of piecing together odds and ends with a fresh coat of paint.
Whether it's the tiniest piece of scatter terrain or the grandest castle build, TerrainFest is there for you to get involved in and we eagerly await the inspiration your unique projects will bring!
How Can You Get Involved?
Participation is a breeze! Simply follow these steps:
- Create a FREE account on the OnTableTop website.
- Create a project in our Project System. For a shortcut to the Add Project Page, Click Here.
- When creating your project, use the category "TerrainFest 2023" which you'll find under the Related Contest Filter.
- Build, paint, and share your terrain project throughout October, from the 1st to the 31st.
TerrainFest can be as simple or as intricate as you desire. Just spend the month of October making your tabletops look awesome and hopefully, by the end of it, we'll all have some excellent terrain to use in all manner of wargames.
You Could WIN Our Astounding Prize!
OnTableTop will also be joining in the festivities. Throughout the month, we will be showcasing the creation of a tabletop adorned with Warhammer 40K terrain and YOU have the chance to win a bundle of all the terrain used in the videos.
Our Prize Bundle Includes...
- Battlezone Fronteris: Nachmund
- Orks: Big ‘ed Bossbunka
- Sector Imperialis Ruins
- Battlezone Mechanicus: Galvanic Magnavent
- Sector Mechanicus: Sacristan Forgeshrine
In early November, the OnTableTop team will select ONE winner based on the most captivating and engaging project that catches our attention. So, be sure to document your progress with plenty of photographs. and the winner will then get their hands on our HUGE bundle of terrain!
Share TerrainFest On Social Media!
As well as sharing your work via OnTableTop in the Project System, you can get involved on social media and get more people to take part.
Share On Social Media - #TerrainFest
Copy & Paste These Links On Social Media
Share TerrainFest:
https://bit.ly/Join-TerrainFest-2023 -
Share The Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qobAZdXSmMs
Head onto Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram and more using the hashtag #TerrainFest and let's make this an epic showcase of terrain building.
Promotional Images For You To Share
You can also share images that we've provided in order to help us promote TerrainFest and get it out there into the wider wargaming world!
Start plotting your creative endeavours and get involved!
"...by the end of it, we'll have some excellent terrain to use in all manner of wargames"
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What are peeps going to build?
A German following for OTT by making them all come here. Via the medium of blog! https://www.warmonger.de/ende-gelaende-ne-kaese-genau-das-gegenteil/
Noice
I would like to continue working on my Sci-fi terrain collection. Still have a Noodle Bar I didn’t finish for the Spring Clean Challenge
I am SO up for Terrainfest! I have loads of unrelated terrain kits and materials that I would like to turn into terrain, many of which I have had for ages that I would just love to assemble, paint and get on the gaming table.
Oh god… what have I done?! XD
Opened the terrain floodgates!
Hmm floodgates. Now there’s an idea!
An u-boat den?
boo! the rules preclude anyone who may have alphastriked the challenge throughout the year! (https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1803823/ ) I guess I’ll just have to do moaaaarrrrr hobbying instead
Better crank out more terrain!
I guess I’ll be cracking on with some Bot War terrain next month then ?
Looking forward to seeing that!
So is it against the rules to start the draft of the project blog before the 31st?
I won’t be starting the build until October. But just setting up the plog would be useful?
Make that the 1st ?
You don’t have the category “TerrainFest 2023” to add a project too yet.
Very true but that can always be added when available ?
Well here we go!
I have Mordheim terrain to make, and Age of Sigmar/Necromunda as well. Also, a mystery terrain build to add spice! Nothing that has not been done before I’m pretty sure but I want to keep something secret.
Pretty sure a gazillion other games I have need terrain too.
I’ll make my decision on what to build for “TERRAINTOBER” errr I mean “Terrainfest” when the Month finally rolls around.
Good Luck to everyone that plans to join the fun in October. ??
Currently deciding between the following.
Battletech layout,
Victorian Gaslight or Steampunk Town,
Fantasy Town,
Egyptian-themed stuff for Pulp, Tomb Kings or Wargods of Aegyptus.
Are we able to do more than one?
I would like to think the more the merrier!
If I can get myself in gear I plan on doing more than one.
I love seeing more focus on terrain and not just minis! ??
I was planning on finishing an orcs and goblins army for the Old World, but now I will be sidetracked by terrain crafting ?
Planning to make something epic, but grimdark at the same time (if that’s possible)
:::pops head out and observes the terrain around him before popping back underground::: The cursed earth will be made manifest by my clumsy hands
I would like to join in. Is there going to be a Terrain Fest Category added to the Related Contest section? Do we just list that in the description?
there will be a dropdown in the project system as of October 1st IIRC @144artist
Thank you for the info.