How to make Cheap Wargame Hills

A few weeks ago I made some prototype hills just to work out how I wanted to do them. The intention all along was to make a large batch of foam hills to fulfil my gaming needs for many years to come. With the arrival of a new batch of XPS Foam, I set about the task of cutting, sanding, painting, and then applying the static grass. The whole project took just a couple of days, most of that being drying time. 

Enough hills to give me plenty of terrain choices

The build was so simple, and low cost, that I decided to make a very short tutorial video on my work process. If you have wavered over making your own hills for the games table then this short film will show you just how easy they were to make

For those that are interested, here is a list of the raw materials I used and a cost for the whole project.

XPS Foam (A3 20mm thick) £10.00 *

4x Bags of Javis Spring/Autumn Static Grass £14.00
500ml Bottle PVA Glue £2.00
2x200ml Tubes Burnt Umber Artists Acrylic £4.00

Total Cost £30

*This low unit cost was achieved by buying a much larger pack and stashing half of it away for use in future projects. One can never have enough foam! 

I hope you found the video useful and if you have never made foam hills before give it a try. You'll be amazed at how easy they were to make and how much money you'll save.