Big Lee’s Miniature Adventure has an article comparing various methods for making desert bases for 6mm figures. The techniques, of course, can be applied to any scale.
Modeling
Making Hay Fields and Hay Stacks
Here’s a useful tutorial on modeling hay fields and hay stacks.
Making OldHammer Box Dioramas
The Santa Cruz Wargamer has a terrific post on making box dioramas from old school Warhammer miniatures. They’ve inspired me to try it myself. I have a lot of Oldhammer miniatures around.
Free Textures For Paper Buildings
CG Textures has a terrific collection of textures you can download and use to design your own paper buildings. There area bricks, doors, windows and more. I’m going to use them to create some photorealistic 15mm buildings for an upcoming zombie game.
Thanks to reader Troy for the tip!
Making A Warhammer 40K Shrine
The Iron Hands site has some instructions for making a neat Warhammer 40K shrine.a