TerrainFest 2024 Begins! Build Terrain With OnTableTop & Win A £300 Prize!
October 22, 2024 by crew
Join us this year for an updated three months of wargame terrain-building fun using our Project System! We hope TerrainFest 2024 will inspire and motivate you to elevate the quality of your gaming tables and that by the end of the three months, 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 2024" which you'll find under the Related Contest Filter
- Build, paint, and share your terrain project from 1st October 2024 to 31st December 2024
TerrainFest can be as simple or as intricate as you desire. Just spend the next three months 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 A £300 Voucher Thanks To Wayland Games!
In early January 2025, the OnTableTop team will select ONE winner based on the most captivating and engaging project that catches our attention.
£300 Voucher Prize Thanks To Wayland Games!
So, be sure to document your progress with plenty of photographs and the winner will then get their hands on that epic £300 Voucher from Wayland Games!
Share TerrainFest On Social Media!
In addition to 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
Head to Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, and more using the hashtag #TerrainFest. Let's make this an epic showcase of terrain building.
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Start plotting your creative endeavours and get involved!
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*sigh* I have zero ideas.
Nada.
Nothing.
Blank.
Create some terrain for the vacuum of space… black terrain in the empty void of space… in the utter darkness… so you can’t see anything.
You were building murder teddies last night, so what about the forest moon of Endor?
Generally a good idea but Endor trees end up being giant stumps and are a PITA to store. Also they have been done to death. Launching a project spanning 3 months needs inspiration. And that is completely non existent with me. But maybe lightning strikes later. Thanks for the suggestion though 🙂
How about a series of smaller builds, rather than one big 3-month project? With the Endor theme, you could always go down the imperial bunker route. Maybe some themed scoreboards for your Blood Bowl? an iconic piece for Frosthaven like a frozen library with books all strewn about or an observatory with a giant telescope?
Either way, I hope you get your mojo back.
Three months is a great step for this one… there’s a chance I might actually get through the one I have in mind! Have fun everyone.
So many ideas, so little time. It’s hard to choose just one theme.
Necromunda it is. TO THE UNDERHECK!
love that this is 3 months now. very happy with that time extension… my terrain entry will involve white powder, does anyone wanna guess what it will be? (an no, its not made by FFG Gerry before you say it!)
Somewhere for your awesome winter Germans to play?
Is it a class A drug manufacturing plant for a Spec Ops game? A rock band hotel room? Or have I got the wrong sort of white powder?
I went to Hurst Arts and plaster. What have I become?
A dealer?
Is it that time of year already?
I have an idea, but it’s not going to win me a £300 prize, so maybe I’ll just do it for myself and not share the results.
I guess I know what you mean? I don’t think I’d win anything with my idea (or skillset), but then again if we all thought of it like that, there wouldn’t be many entries. And what I myself liked last year is that even though most projects aren’t prize winning, they are inspiring!
Valid point.
Hmmmm. Thinking i might have to dig out all the various 40k terrain kits I’ve gotten over the years from the various Hachette partworks…..
As I am (slowly) painting up the two initial armies for Home Raiders, I was tempted to simply take a picture of my messy wargaming room and call it done! BUT, instead I might revisit an idea I had years ago using artist painting boards (available in many different sizes) to create a kind of modular table system.
Let me give that some more thought!
Ooh Yes/No perhaps ?
Questions two:
1) Is it just a single grand prize this time then?
2) Does it need to be a completely new project page or can it be new work added to an existing project? Do I have to post my Carnevale terrain someplace new or can I just keep it with the rest of my Carnevale work?
It is a single prize yes for TerrainFest. It would be ideal if you made a new project with the terrainfest tag as that’s easier for us to look through but if you’ve got an existing project you’re adding to, go for it. Gerry and I will pour through them all anyway.
Guess I gotta step and find time for my little side project. Thanks for the extra motivation.
Shared at local discord channels and invited a few friends in hope they’ll join the fun. Cheers!
I’m working on a giant 3D heroquest board, guessing that wouldn’t count, sadly no time to start another project
Hah! This appears AFTER I do two Boarding Actions sets. Time to break out set three? Nah, not yet. 😀
I finally started my project! I really enjoy these community contests. They’re a great way for me to knock out some lingering hobby projects 🙂