12-06-2011, 07:51 AM
The board in the terrain corner link looks excellent.
It reminds me I used to use corugated cardboard as base to make ploughed fields surrounded by walls/hedges for WW2. Worked well.
I have purchased a dozen 2 x 2s of 6mm MDF for interchangeable base boards. I am still scratching my head on what to use as the basic covering. Was looking at experimenting with a mix of emulsion + pva + fine saw dust, coloured with acrylics, then sponge painted and drybrushed. Then using the same plan to base terrain features.
Watching 'Art-Attack' I picked up the technique of using rolled up newspaper stuck down with sellotape (sounds a bad plan). You then paint it with watered down PVA, stick ripped up kitchen roll on top with more watered PVA. When dry paint with acrylics. It works really well. Plan to give it a go for a hill or two...
As I am concentrating on WHFB intended to build a collection of terrain features to cover the range of random items.
Should only take me about 10 years...
It reminds me I used to use corugated cardboard as base to make ploughed fields surrounded by walls/hedges for WW2. Worked well.
I have purchased a dozen 2 x 2s of 6mm MDF for interchangeable base boards. I am still scratching my head on what to use as the basic covering. Was looking at experimenting with a mix of emulsion + pva + fine saw dust, coloured with acrylics, then sponge painted and drybrushed. Then using the same plan to base terrain features.
Watching 'Art-Attack' I picked up the technique of using rolled up newspaper stuck down with sellotape (sounds a bad plan). You then paint it with watered down PVA, stick ripped up kitchen roll on top with more watered PVA. When dry paint with acrylics. It works really well. Plan to give it a go for a hill or two...
As I am concentrating on WHFB intended to build a collection of terrain features to cover the range of random items.
Should only take me about 10 years...
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