Often we get so carried away with everything we have to do that we forget to put any emphasis on a key element of Tabletop Miniature Gaming (TMG).  What key element is that?  Well, if you read the title of this post you know exactly what I’m talking about.  I can admit it’s hard to shell out the cash necessary for a beautiful scenery set for all circumstances you may run into with wargaming, role-playing, and gladiator arena matches.  However, a kick *ss miniature shouldn’t be roaming around on a blank table.  Nor does a felt mat constitute as proper terrain for a miniature that might just be the next Golden Demon winner…

With the economy in shambles, it’s a hard sell to convince people to drop the cash for terrain.  However, if you check out the Dwarven Forge you know exactly what I mean by worth it. Whenever I make it to GenCon I can’t help but drool over the terrain they put out. My wife isn’t as fond of them though. She knows that eventually I will run out of projects to do on the house, and then it will be miniature terrain mayhem.

How can you not want some of their terrain? Of course, while searching around for other miniature terrain I found a Patent for flexible miniature terrain pieces.. United States Patent 5326267. The idea behind the patent is that the terrain would be flexible both vertically and horizontally. It would hold shape and then be able to be re-used. It’s too bad you can’t search for products based off the “inventor” James Brokaw. I’ve never come across any scenery that does this, and might find it interesting to see an actual product.

In the meantime, Dwarven Forge’s scenery sets are by far the best out there. They are especially more impressive then a certain company that came to GenCon where you could see the finger prints in the castings. It might be rude to mention the name of the company, so let’s just say if you see finger prints on the cast.. that’s called lazy or just trying to pump out models without taking the time to clean up the original before making the mold.

Tags: Miniature Terrain

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