TERRAIN MAKING PAGE

I am working on a lot of terrain.  Here are some samples of an idea I have been thinking about for some time.  I designed a way to have geo-morphic boards.  These would offer me some pretty neat terrain that I can connect to any other board, in any way.  I also have had to face the fact that where I am at now I have just simply no space.  So, these boards allow me a lot of variety of terrain and situations for miniatures games.

Well,

My first project looked like this:

 I use some pretty much standard Terrain Making Tools. Here you see the key items: flocking, paint, brushes, paste, and some imagination.  I start with some thin airplane plywood sheets, in standard sizes.    I use a sheet of flocked paper, cut to the right size, and I use spray glue to paste the sheet down.   I will show how I build at crossroads piece.

I draw a pattern on the wood sheet, cut the flocked paper and paste it to the board, leaving the lines I drew for roads.  Make sure the corners are glued down well, since this is where the games will stress the seams.  I use some white glue to reenforce these corners.  See how I cut the pattern out?

I use a variety of green sheets to make up each corner of the crossroad.  Once dry, I paint the road with a thick brown paint, thickend with gesso paste.  Just before it dries I sprinkled some sand and fine brown dirt on it to give it the appearance of a dirt road like in the 17th-19th Century in Europe.   Yes, I use my fingers, since this way I can get the effect of a worn road.  The end product looks like this:

When the paint/paste dries, it no longer looks shiny.

Here you see several boards, as they line up.  The crossroads board I just described above is in the front/left.  I use trees and glue those down, too, forming nice outcropping.  I even made a village set, with a cobblestone town square.  I got that cobblestone in at a model train store.  It came in a foam pressed sheet, already painted and shaded.  I leave the buildings loose to allow me to set up different villages or towns, based on the miniatures scale or scenario.  Here is how that village looks with other buildings and some figures with it:

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