"Doormat Wheatfield?" Topic

I keep seeing the doormat I want, a tan fibrous thing, at various places. However, it always has a design or message on it. I asked what they were called, and Kitchen Kapers said it was "natural coir". Cut up, they make great wheatfields, altho the minis have to stand on top of them, levitating on the tips of the corn stalks, as it were.

I'm thinking that someone here already knows where you can get these for nothing in the US. PULEESE tell me where?

I want them for FoW, but they seem to be on a lot of terrain boards. None of my FoW buddies that has them know where they came from.

I think I got mine at Target or Walmart.

It is difficult to find one without printing on it, but just keep looking. They do turn up.

Please post this only to the "15mm FOW Terrain board."

J/k

All hatred of game-specific boards aside, check your local hardware store. Not necessarily Home Depot or whatnot, but a small independent or possibly ACE-franchised place. They often have generic mats.

Dollar Store types may also have something. I haven't checked my local one since I encountered three – THREE – separate schizophrenic and/or otherwise crazy people in one visit, one of whom expressed an unhealthy interest in my two year old son.

Better luck to you, I hope.

Best place is IKEA (if you're lucky to have one near you). No printing at all. Cheap<$10. I have bought 1 for gaming and 2 for my house over the years.

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Phong

I get mine at Ikea as well. That is the only place I could find one with no printing on it. They are also nice and heavy with a thick rubber bottom.

Jeff

And the IKEA mats that I have seen have a lighter-coloured rubber backing, which looks better than black for the dryish earth of summer…

Got mine at a hardware store for around $17 USD friend got one from here link

A better idea is the tan colored plastic matting that is like fake astroturf.
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We used it in our Antietam cornfield scenario last year.

THREE – separate schizophrenic and/or otherwise crazy people in one visit sounds more like a hobby store (or wargame club night) than a dollar store :)

How do you know it was 3 separate schizophrenics and not one with 3 personalities?

to get around the 'levitation' effect, cut the mat into base size sections which can be removed to allow space for troops

Carpet stores often have huge rolls of the stuff in various thicknesses, very useful for floor inset doormats.

"very useful for floor inset doormats."

That's crazy talk!

I bought 4, in Bunnings, in Australia for around $4.50 AUD each you get 2 and half place mat sized fields out of each mat..plain ones from Sri Lanka, strangely there must be a lot of fields being made in the southern highlands as all the appropriate mats in Mittagong Bunnings were gone last time I looked

I agree with an earlier post….

The only plae I have been able to get them locally is the small independent hardware stores… Not the chains…

James

I bought a plain one at Ace Hardware.

Teddybear fur from a hobbycraft store is just as good if not batter, all be it possibly more expensive.

Figures do not stand so proud in it.

number4:
A better idea is the tan colored plastic matting that is like fake astroturf.

Gotta disagree. I had some of those, but threw them away once I found the coir ones. The coir ones look like real fields, whereas the plastic ones just look like plastic (even after painting).

I just bought one at Home Depot that was on clearance for $5.88.
Might be worth a look.

I saw one at Home Depot recently – they seemed to get them in for the spring.

HesseCassel wrote:

"Cut up, they make great wheatfields, altho the minis have to stand on top of them, levitating on the tips of the corn stalks, as it were."

The best wheat fields (game table) I have seen allowed sections to be pulled out to allow the placement of troops. Fields would be flattened by troop and vehicle movement anyway. Further, you can "stretch" your investment by having portions of the field harvested.

Cheers,

Use your radial arm saw to cut them into 2"x2" sections. Maybe then cut a few into 1"x1" sections. that way you can replace sections as the troops and vehicles move thru it.

The walmarts and targets in N. Ohio don't carry the plain ones.(at least those near me don't). Last fall Home Depot didn't have any of the plain ones. I'll check them again as well as the Ace h/w store nearby.

I've got one of those buff rubber based coir mats w/o lettering or etc. Don't rightly recall where I saw it, could have been a Marc's (BuckeyeBob knows them) but its been in my car trunk for going on 2 years now.

You say a radial arm saw to cut it? I was thinking just utility knifing it.

I used a razor knife to cut one in half, but if you're trying to get 2" squares that line up, that big gun might come in pretty handy!

Got mine at the local ACE hardware store.

This what you really need.

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It's a shot during a game using 'bunny fur' which is dyed. Makes the best wheatfield, hands down.

the bunny fur isn't bad – where'd you get it?

I will say that it seems to suit 25mm better, wheras the coir looks more like stalks. The weird levitating effect can be ascribed to the pope living in Italy and blessing my Bersaglieri. Jesus walked on water, they walk on wheatstalks. :)

I do have fake fur, and like it for 25mm figs. The hair is a little long and it tough to trim down b/c it is artificial fiber and kills any kind of electric blade.

Craft shops or ebay. This is where I got mine (in the UK). auction
Plenty of colours available and much better than the doormat option. No levitating units, they stand in the field, not on top of it. Here are a couple of shots, one with 15s and one with 28s. Fur is long but you get it shorter or jut trim it.
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Just saw the plain mats yesterday at the Home Depot in Amherst, NY.
Phong