| davesimpson | 22 Apr 2014 1:06 p.m. PST |
A brief tutorial on how I construct the battlefield. 1) I lay down a base of thick PVA matting:
2) My flocked canvas playmat goes on top of that:
3) The contours are pinned down with tacks and straight pins decorated to look like rock piles and bushes.
4) Roads, rivers, fields, forests, rough terrain and urban areas are all placed and pinned down. These are painted and flocked canvas bits. Trees, buildings and hedges are placed and also pinned down:
5) Down in the valley so low… This shot shows you the concrete tele- transmission poles mounted on thumbtacks that pin the roads in place and also the precip towers pinned into the middle of the fields.
Here´s a shot of the set-up with miniatures in their at-start positions:
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| Angel Barracks | 22 Apr 2014 1:09 p.m. PST |
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| Todd636 | 22 Apr 2014 1:09 p.m. PST |
It looks like it formed well to the contours. Nice job. |
| taskforce58 | 22 Apr 2014 1:22 p.m. PST |
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| Todd636 | 22 Apr 2014 2:15 p.m. PST |
btw. Who makes the miniatures? |
| Kmfisher | 22 Apr 2014 2:20 p.m. PST |
I was just gonna ask about this in your other thread, glad I looked. Beautiful work, looks like it would be a lot of fun to game on. |
| davesimpson | 22 Apr 2014 2:31 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the compliments! You can find the manufacturers here: TMP link |
| elsyrsyn | 22 Apr 2014 5:39 p.m. PST |
Outstanding! If I didn't already have a ton of 8" styrofoam hexes on hand to use under my ground cloths, I'd be buying some of those mats. Doug |
| sharkbait | 22 Apr 2014 6:28 p.m. PST |
That looks great! Very nice work. |
Just Jack  | 22 Apr 2014 7:39 p.m. PST |
Wowwwwwwww. That is truly amazing, and beautiful. I'm into some 3mm stuff myself, but not like that. Why is everyone so much better at this stuff than me ;) V/R,
Jack |
| Covert Walrus | 22 Apr 2014 9:29 p.m. PST |
Singularly Impressive! Could adapt the idea for 6mm, but it would take a bit of work :) |
| elsyrsyn | 23 Apr 2014 4:42 a.m. PST |
Oh – I forgot to mention – the idea of disguising the pins as brush or rocks is just brilliant. Doug |
| Zakalwe64 | 23 Apr 2014 6:16 a.m. PST |
There are ffive types of pins: trees, which are bits of coarse flocking stuck to stick pins; thumbtacks with grass and bushes; thumbtacks with rock piles; thumbtacks with manhole covers and grass; thumbtacks with transmission poles. Oh, and there are the percipitation towers, so six types of pins. |
| Rothgar | 23 Apr 2014 6:17 a.m. PST |
I always enjoy looking at the stuff you make! |
