This temple is built mostly of foamcore.  The stairs are foamcore, cut carefully with an Exacto knife to create a staircase.  The stele of the dismembered moon goddess on the top of the temple building is hand carved by Exacto knife as a replica of the 3-meter diameter stele of the moon goddess (Coyolxāuhqui) found in Mexico City in 1978.  The frescoes are images of Aztec dieties printed out and pasted down, as are all the Aztec year signs that decorate the lowest level of the pyramid.

The feathered serpent heads were cast for me by Nic Robson of Eureka miniatures based upon a carving I sent him; I set them into the roundels which are made of Sculpee (polymer modeling clay).

This works for Post-Mongol Russian and Early Russian armies.  Growing up in the snow, I really wanted to try doing a snow camp.  Russian warfare happened in the summer and in the winter, but not in Spring or Fall.  The two figures are Essex EMED range.  I don't remember where I got the trees or the cookpot and fire.  I had a lot of fun doing the footprints in the snow leading to the axeman.

Dead horse and praying monks!

The monks and dead horse are Essex; the Teutonic Knight is Gladiator.  The rocks are cast plaster from a Woodland Scenics railway mold.  The flag is painted foil -- I gave up on that technique, as the foil tends to shed the paint given any excuse.  I'm surprised that this one flag is doing so well, actually.

Why do I have more Aztec Camps than Aztec armies?

This camp was great fun to make -- I had some Gladiator Aztec porters, and I wanted to make them coming through a jungle trail.  The hardest part was to create enough different vegetation types to look properly jungle-y.  Take a look at the breadfruit/bananas -- those are caraway seeds glued together to make a bunch of banana-ey things.

I think the pack camel and Arab boy are AB Miniatures?  Don't recall who makes the tent.

The cast palm trees look nice, but they are fragile; I've developed better methods for building them since.

This gorgeous wall with gates (that can be created open -- I chose to make them closed here) is by Baueda.  Love it.

I sold my first Tamil army to my friend Jon Bostwick; this is a camp I made up for him early in 2025 for that army when I refurbished and rebased it for him.

The wooden Ganesha statue was supplied by him.  I dipped it ("dip" is a technique using pigment and polyurethane in one step to seal, darken, and function as a wash -- it works really well with bare wood) and added some flower-shield infantry in a jungle environment (lots of vegetation).

Another small icon figure repurposed to be a huge 15mm statue.

The base for the statue is foamcore, painted and scored and with stairs cut into it.

This camp was constructed as a pair with the 6mm Hun Wagon Laager camp below.

Most of the figures are 6mm Irregular, I believe.  The tents are all created from Sculpee (polymer modeling clay).

I like this camp a lot, but if I were to do it again, I'd do better with the spikes or palisade walls.  Cutting them by hand wasn't very successful, and was very fussy, and they sometimes seem to fall out.

This camp is intended for a Late Imperial Roman or Patrician Roman camp; it would work fine for Maurikian Byzantine as well.  Shield patterns on the 6mm figures are from the Notitia Dignitatum.

6mm scale figures used to be much less expensive; maybe 3D printing will help with that in the modern gaming era.  These figures are largely Irregular 6mm wagons, I believe.  I do like the little dioramas you can create if you are working with 6mm figures.

One of the major opponents of the Lithuanians was the Teutonic Order.  I had some Essex "casualties" figures with 13th century barding and armor, so I painted them up as Teutonic Order and put a Lithuanian footman (Gladiator fig) as their enemy, holding the camp.

The dead tree is made of twisted wire; the hanging lichen is a collection of the trailing strands of hot-melt glue that you get.  The base is leather glued to sheet metal (don't use hot melt glue for this; it doesn't last more than five years or so).  Marshy rivulets are painted with gloss polyurethane.  

Paint up a Macedonian or Hellenistic army and you'll end up with lots of extra phalanx figures.  What to do with them?  A training montage!  So here's a camp for any Big Al, Diadachoii, or Hellenistic army, with a foul-mouthed veteran giving some recruits crap about their formation maneuvers.  And a Cretan mercenary bowman on guard in case of enemy incursion.

Some long time ago I created a city ("Built Up Area") for a legacy game that had such things.  The rules were an abomination (confusing the scope of sieges with the scope of field battles), but I eventually chopped the city up and made some camps, of which this is one.

The front gate, crenelations on the towers, and the intervening walls, are made of Sculpee (polymer clay).  The towers themselves are just wood blocks cut on my table saw.  A bit of paint, a bit of basing and flocking, and a very nice camp results.

This camp could have been organized in the "Object Camps" category.  The main thing here is a small aquarium decoration Torii gate.  The paint is touched up and it is plopped on a base.  It serves as my main camp for my Post Mongol Samurai army.

The main reason I organized it here, not in the Object Camps, is because of the ceramic tile pathway.  It's made from plastic shelf liner with a tiny hexagonal pattern that scales beautifully as large ceramic hexagonal tiles on this model.  Working with the flexible plastic shelf liner was difficult -- the plastic didn't take primer well, didn't take paint well at all, and didn't adhere to most glues.  Which made sense, given its origin.  Once I found a good glue and glued it down, though, painted in terracotta and drybrushed, it was beautiful.

The camp here is based upon an Angus McBride illustration of Ancient Spanish warfare against Carthage and Rome, showing the side of a hillfort with spikes and vegetation.

The hillside is styrofoam; all the woodwork is toothpicks and wooden skewers for kebabs (which are super-toothpicks, kinda).

This is more a medium complexity camp than a truly complex camp, but hey.

This terrain piece is produced by an Australian company (miniaturescenery.com).  This particular piece was called "Imperial Ruins Entrance" and is no longer in production, but an updated version of the same thing is called the "Forsaken Ruins Doorway".  I've got a few more of their pieces; they make awesome stuff.

The two statues and the base  and rubble are added by me (and the whole thing painted), but otherwise it is shown as the kit comes.  Very nice.

I have lots of Lord of the Rings armies for Triumph! in 28mm, on both sides of the fence.  I was thinking of this as a camp for armies fighting in Osgiliath, which at the end of the Third Age had been ruined for some time.  Since both Gondor and Mordor (Orcs) held it at various times, I wanted the camp to work for either one.  So I painted up two defensive garrisons -- one Orcish and one Gondor.  One image from the backside is shown for each crew.

This camp is intended for use with a Fantasy Egyptian army in 28mm.  It is heavy -- 10kg or so.  And it is big as well.

A company called Hirst Arts (hirstarts.com) makes rubber moulds for casting your own bricks.  One of their many many moulds makes the bricks and decorative parts seen here -- every single brick in this model is cast plaster, which explains why I could use it as a battering ram if I forget my hotel room key during a convention.

So I cast about half a thousand little bricks, glued them together, painted them, and here it is.  Actually very therapeutic.  The two Anubis statues were acquired through Ebay; the seated one is maybe 80mm long or so, the standing one about that height.

Paint was easy -- one coat of fairly liquid tannish sandstone, then a sepia wash, and done.

This camp could as easily have been put in the Object Camps category, as the basis for the whole camp is a large aquarium terrain Aztec or Mayan pyramid.

The pyramid is quite large -- using it in games I often only put half of it on the map (with the other half extending off-map).  I use it for several 28mm (80mm base width) fantasy armies based on jungle topography, and I've got figures for some 28mm Aztecs as well (but they aren't painted yet).

I deliberately built the base for the camp so it would be clear if you faced it one way, and heavily enjungled if you faced it the other way.  The concept is that I can use it the clear way for jungle cultures at the height of their development, and the overgrown way when the culture is ancient, decadent, and no longer taking good care of itself.  Which fits well with my Lizardmen armies (of which I have several).  Looking at it now, I think I need to increase the jungle and the vegetation factor, climbing up the pyramid, on the backside.  Some lianas twisting and lots more undergrowth and stuff, I think.