Bleecker Street Urban Terrain Setup Guide

A complete walkthrough of our 28mm urban terrain set — what's in the box, how to build a city encounter, and tips for painting and storage.

What's in the Bleecker Street Set

The Bleecker Street Urban Terrain bundle includes 5 modular buildings and 19 scatter pieces, scaled for 28mm miniatures (D&D, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Marvel Crisis Protocol, and any modern or urban-fantasy game).

  • 5 multi-story buildings with removable floors for interior gameplay
  • 19 scatter pieces: street furniture, alley dumpsters, shipping containers, walls, barricades
  • Designed to interlock and rearrange — so the same set gives you a different city block every session

Building Your First City Block

For a typical 4-by-4 foot table, lay out your buildings first:

  1. Anchor the corners: Place 2 of the larger buildings at opposite corners. This creates natural sight-lines and choke points.
  2. Center for cover: Use a smaller building or two-story structure in the middle to give cover without blocking the whole table.
  3. Streets and alleys: Leave 4–6 inches between buildings for roads (vehicles, mounted figures). Leave 1–2 inches for alleys (movement chokepoints).
  4. Drop scatter last: Dumpsters in alleys, barricades blocking streets, containers stacked for cover. Scatter is where the personality of your city comes in.

Painting Tips

Our grey PLA primes excellently — most painters jump straight to the base coat without additional primer. Suggestions for fast tabletop-ready paint jobs:

  • Bricks: Drybrush a brick red base, then a lighter pink/tan highlight. Wash with brown for grit.
  • Concrete: Light grey base, white drybrush on raised edges, black wash in cracks.
  • Metal trim: Steel or gunmetal base, brown wash for weathering.
  • Windows: Glossy dark teal or black gives a "lit at night" look without needing LEDs.

The whole set can be tabletop-ready in 3–4 hours of painting if you keep it simple.

Scale Compatibility

Bleecker Street is designed for 28mm scale — the standard for D&D 5E, Pathfinder, Marvel Crisis Protocol, and most modern or urban skirmish games. It also works for 32mm heroic scale (Warhammer 40K characters look a bit oversized but it's playable).

Storage

Because everything is modular and stacks flat, you can store the whole Bleecker Street set in a single bin (we recommend ~14”×10”×8”). Wrap painted pieces in tissue to avoid paint rubbing during transport.

Add-Ons We Recommend

Pair Bleecker Street with:

Want a Custom Variant?

Need a specific building style — gothic, brutalist, asian-influenced — that's not in our catalogue? Request a custom print and we'll quote within 24 hours.

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