Terrain can be an awesome and unique gift for any miniatures gamer or RPG enthusiast. Well crafted terrain helps populate your player’s table with 3D, interactable pieces of pure immersion, allowing them to elevate their game nights and introduce elements of storytelling and tactical decision making to their play.
But for those not in the hobby, this can be an intimidating task! With unique sizes, tons of industry jargon, and hundreds and hundreds of options available, it’s no wonder many people struggle and scratch their heads to find the perfect gift.
But don’t fret – that’s where your friends at Tabletop Terrain come in. Check out our handy Gift Guide to the 2024 Holiday Season and we’ll get you well on your way to gift that your favorite gamer won’t soon forget.
Why Trust Us?
But, first off, let’s chat a little about why you should trust us with your holiday gift giving.
Here at Tabletop Terrain, we pride ourselves on offering only the highest-quality pieces from modelers and designers we personally trust, in order to produce pieces we’d be proud to put on a personal tabletops. Organized and helmed by a team of trustworthy and innovative tabletop gamers, we work tirelessly to ensure each Tabletop Terrain piece is a model anyone will be proud to add to their collection.
But don’t just take our word for it! Feel free to browse our gallery of over 2,000 verified customer reviews (where we hold a current rating of 4.9 out of 5!).
Let customers speak for us
Was hesitant to order as they were a fair bit cheaper than anything availible local(Australia) but decided to order the ruins set as a trial before ordering some more kits. Absolutely stoked with the quality. We don’t play competitive layouts but it works well as a “ruined city” for a bit of tight, close quarters style warfare. Will definitely be wording more terrain from these guys (ignore the unpainted army/terrain, I prefer to play so painting is a slow grind for me)
Perfect scatter terrain for western or desert themed boards.
Really cool jail that I will
use for Dead Mans Hand.
I play Tyranids and I put effort into making my nids look good. I wanted some terrain that would look equally good, and I found it with Alien Structures. You look at the table with this terrain on it and know you're on a bug world. The prints were all very clean and my order arrived quickly.
Nice quality print! Arrived super fast! Will be ordering again! The 12mm scale is perfect for Heavy Gear Blitz!
Great customer server. Able to offer custom order for just the prices recently added to the TMB insert. Quality of items are superb. Shipping quicker than expected. Seller recommended.
AWESOME!!!! They are very high quality and better then the description!
Great stuff can't wait to pait and then order more. 40K
Looks really nice on my HO train layout. I have a Harry Potter theme and I'm using this as the whomping willow.
Like all of my prior purchases, this model did not disappoint! I use them to play the Lord of the Rings skirmish game, which I've included in one picture.
I really loved painting this model. It was very clean, requiring very little cleanup of leftover bits from its manufacture. I thought the details were perfect for accepting paint, and I was really pleased with the final result.
I painted it, along with 3 other buildings that I ordered from TABLETOP TERRAIN, and together they form the nice start to a ruined village.
Love this set. Not only is it great for practicing for a 10th ed event, it fits perfectly with TT's other fantastic scifigothic urban sets to make a dystopian downtown destruction setting. Well done, definitely recommend!
The main body of the shuttle comes in three pieces, the main cab, bed, and tailgate. The extra bits are the fins found on each side of the shuttles front nose, and the tiny fins on the bed where the bed meets the cab. the last part is the radar dish, comes in three parts as well, the base, and the dish comes in two parts. If you are careful with your gluing the radar dish will have some up down movement. There are also peg feet that have holes to go into the bottom to simulating floating.
The only other note is the fins that attach to the cab, you need to cut away some plastic for them to fit. [picture attached].
Glue and knife are required.
Its a nice model with the truck bed able to serve a lot of optional roles.
20mm works great with Star Wars MGS!
I already ordered the insert for Project: ELITE and loved it so much I browsed all items for any other games I own. Simply beautiful; expertly made. Splendor already fit the base game and its expansion in one box, but now organization is less mess and ziplock bags, more convenience for repeated playthroughs.
What System Are You Shopping For?
Okay, first thing’s first! Let’s figure out what type of gamer you’re looking for. If you’re unsure, you could always do a little browsing (or just ask) and find the game. But it’s important to know just what games your intended recipient plays so that we can provide the right recommendations.
Some of this has to do with theme – for example, if your son plays Marvel Crisis Protocol, they’d want comic book inspired, modern terrain. A broken-down wild west outpost just won’t fit in quite right! Additionally, for some games the scale of the terrain is very important. Don’t worry too much about the technicalities here, just know that depending on the game system you’ll need terrain of a specific size for it to work correctly – we’ll get into that in our game specific recommendation below.
Ready To Go?
Okay, now that you know what system you’re looking for, we’ll break down some of our favorite pieces and provide a few options. First, we’ll talk about a nice gift that anyone playing those games will use. Then, we’ll sprinkle in a couple of stocking stuffer options – nice, low cost items that would be a great add-on. And finally, we’ll include a showstopper piece for each game – these are going to be the jaw-dropping additions that’ll recreate the feeling of opening that first Nintendo or BB gun in Christmases of yore!
Today, we're turning our focus to the grimdark future of the 41st millenium and giving you our recommendations for Warhammer 40,000 compatible terrain!
In games of Warhammer 40,000 players act as the commanders
of large forces of Imperial hosts, Chaos-corrupted legions and demons, or
strange, otherworldly aliens. Whatever your recipient’s faction of choice, any
battlefield can naturally support a Grimdark Fiel Command HQ! This multi-piece
building can be painted and modified to match the army of your choice and represents
a key strategic piece of cover on the field.
Additionally, this piece features a fully removable ceiling,
allowing you to place miniatures inside and turn this into a piece that can easily act as “ruins” on your board.
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Every game of 40k can use more ruins! In addition to playing in to the theme of war torn planets and artillery blasted battlefields, ruins
in 40k have tons of strategic importance. In competitive play, ruins are used almost exclusively in order to set up symmetrically balanced fields with clear, defined shooting lanes. In narrative and casual play, they provide fun pieces
of storytelling flair (while also providing your units with cover!)
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Updated to fit new dimensions in Version 1.1
A full table set of ruins compatible with the Pariah Nexus Tournament Companion for 10th edition Warhammer 40k. This set includes all the pieces you need for any of the example layouts from the Companion including layout 7 which requires additional small ruins. All variants of the 12x6, 10x5, and 6x4 area terrain placements can be accomplished with this set. A full set of 16 ruins under 2" are included for placement as needed.
Each ruin has an upper, lower, and floor piece and can be assembled with super glue or included peg fasteners. For a permanent solution, we recommend gluing the pieces + floors together.
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Conclusion
Any of these terrain options will add tons of style and variety to your favorite 40k players life! Whether they're looking to practice on the latest competitive tournament layouts or just pick up some unique, stylish pieces for a new painting project, you can't go wrong with more terrain!
Want to browse even more options? Check out our full Warhammer Compatible collection and find awesome additions to your table!
And be sure to check out our Guide to Painting 3D Miniatures – this article will help get your terrain pieces to the next level, and contains plenty of tips to ensure you’re successful in your painting ventures!
