Terrain

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Hand Made Terrain

If you prefer to build your own terrain for MechaStellar I highly recommend the beautiful terrain work done at Ironhands.com which also hosts the MSEra rules for Gundam tabletop. You can find a direct link to the terrain page here: http://ironhands.com/gundamTerr.htm

Foldable Cardstock Terrain

If you are playing with large models you may want to consider getting some large buildings. An affordable and transportable set can be found from the tabletop wargame Drop Zone Commander, specifically the cityscape set. Here’s an example of what it looks like with some MSIA Gundam figures (4.5″) and Revoltech Evangelion figures (6″)

Here’s how it looks with smaller ~3″ figures.

The buildings used to be hosted as printable pdfs on the games website but that domain is no longer around. You can still find the printable pdfs or purchase the buildings off of ttcombat. https://ttcombat.com/pages/dropzone-commander-buildings-us-paper

For smaller 1/400 scale minis you may want to try Battletech Alpha strikes cardstock buildings. You can find these on Amazon for about $25 for a set.

N Scale Buildings

Large super robot figures in the 5-10″ range and Gunpla kits do well with N-Scale buildings. N-Scale refers to the scale used when building model trains which is 1:160, in comparison an HG Gunpla kit is 1:144 so very similar sizing.

Here’s the post these photos originated from: https://mechastellar.com/2023/05/11/terrain-for-gundam-and-other-mecha-n-scale-buildings/

There are a number of companies out there that do N-Scale buildings, here is one that we’ve used in the past.

Outland Models N Scale Scenics

Prepainted Resin Terrain

If you don’t taking a big hit to the wallet there are several suppliers out there who make large scale pre-painted resin terrain. Pick the one that works bets for you. We’ve used battlefield in a box as well as gamemat.eu prepainted resin terrain. Above is the rocky base set, below is the snow rocks set.

Aquarium Terrain

You can find a lot of cheap prepainted rock formations from aquarium stores both brick and mortar and on ebay. Pictured above are four rock formations behind the Arcadia / Messala fight, each of which were about $8.

These two rock formations were from an in expensive aquarium set.

The giant rocks here are also from an aquarium set, albeit more expensive.

Asteroids from Lava Rock

You can make asteroids really quickly from buying some lava rocks from a hardware store or amazon. Here’s a post that walks you through it.

https://mechastellar.com/2023/09/27/asteroid-terrain-for-gundam-and-other-mecha-figures/

3D Printed Terrain

For terrain I highly recommend Greeblecity. Below is one collection and a few city ruins. We primarily play with 1/400 scale or 1/300 scale which is roughly ~2-3″ models. These sculpts are wonderfully put together and can create a nice looking city terrain for your games. For 1/400 scale we printed the below terrain at 200% scale so the buildings are a consistent scale with the Mechs. Conveniently a 200% scale also fits on a Monoprice Mini printer.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4084000

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4318622

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4319396

Here are our favorite trees

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4570584

You can find more free designs from the sculptor below:

https://www.thingiverse.com/fisk400/designs

https://cults3d.com/en/users/Fisk400/creations

Junk Terrain

You can also use junk around the house as terrain. Plastic, cardboard and styrofoam can make for useful large terrain. Here’s a few examples.

The plastic container for an electric razor flipped over makes for a quick building.

Green plastic baskets from the farmers market, orange plastic from a replacement toner pack from a printer, the soft green is the handle from a broken plastic storage tote.

Black plastic reinforcements which were on a large shipping box.

Here’s some paper moulding from a shipment, on the left is the original color, on the right is a quick textured spraypaint with a few tufts of desert grass thrown on which took about 5 minutes plus dry time.

Duct tape asteroids