"Afghan Walled Garden with Entryway" Topic

I will attempt to explain the process I used to create the walled garden with a series of pictures taken as I was building it. First start with a 12 inch by 12 inch VCT floor tile, some Crayola Air Dry Clay, and a piece of flexible stone wall #8252 Medium Random by Chooch. Also a couple of wooden clay sculpting tools might come in handy.

Roll out the clay and place it onto the face of the flexible wall.Fold the flexible wall over the clay roll,press down with your hands and flatten it out.This will leave and imprint on the wall that will give it a distressed look that will create some detail in the finished product.

Use a tool and chop out parts of the top of the wall to create a distressed and worn look.

Gently scrape and scratch the top of the wall to again help with the old worn look.

Keep repeating this process and adding sections of walls until you have your enclosure complete.Smooth together the joints joining the wall sections as best as possible.

Let this structure dry. You might need to let it sit overnight as you will be applying paint to it and don't want the clay to have a significant amount of moisture in it that will be trapped once it has been painted.
Meanwhile, gather up the materials that you will use to flock the base.

Take another floor tile and peal off the paper covering the sticky back.

Spray the sticky surface with 3M Super 77 adhesive or something similar. Apply your choice of basic earth flock.Let it dry thoroughly, and then re-spray and apply your choice of green flock.

Now it is time to apply paint to the dry clay wall. Put on a base coat of you choosing then heavy drybrush with a lighter color.

The sandpaper and piece of Prismacolor Sooty Black pastel chalk will be used as part of the finish when most of the work has been completed.Once the paint is dry, carefully try and loosen the wall from the tile and flip it over. it doesn't matter if it falls apart a little as you can always patch it up in the end. Apply Woodland Scenics Scenic Glue or something similar along the base,flip it back over onto the flocked tile.

Take the sandpaper and sand down the prismacolor chalk and let it fall into a dish or bowl. Then take a soft paintbrush and dab the sooty powder randomly onto the wall. Don't use too much as this is to enhance the worn look not to change the color of the wall.

Now the walled garden is complete except for some touch up work that might be needed to repair the wall if it was damaged in the gluing process. You can also add any other landscape effects at this time. Youc an add removable orchard trees or fields to vary the look of the walled garden as your requirements change.

nice work

cool

I like it.

Xin

I like it. Simple but effective.

Thank you for posting the idea.

Tony

Work in progress on Afghan walled gardens and orchards for Battle of Baba Wali (Kandahar) 1880.

Very helpful: thank you.

Alan

Nice work, Rhingyll, and EXCELLENT tutorial! I like the step-by-step posts, don't think I've ever seen that before in my seven or so years here at TMP. You and I are now in an unofficial and very friendly race to see who gets done first -- you with your September 1st 1880 Baba Wali/Kandahar 1880 terrain, or me with my October 6th 1879 Charasiab terrain.

Whatever happens, I humbly submit the results will be a win for all Second Afghan War gamers with access to the internet!

And one last thing: now you definitely have enough of those Afghan walled fields to lay out the "Walled Gardens" of Khig, and I believe you also have enough buildings for the twin small villages of Khig and Mundabad/Mahmudabad, so -- if you have any interest -- you could also game the battle of Maiwand, which set the table for Baba Wali.

Thanks for posting!

MG- Thanks for the comments.You have been my inspiration through your Maiwand Day site to get back into colonials. I drifted for a while and consequently have lots of Williamite Wars figures that I would like to sell or trade for Colonial figures. I did make an aggressive push to get the gardens done but had no real plan on how many I would make nor starting off exactly how I would make them. My goal is to re-fight the actions around Kandahar but I might do them one village at at time. Finishing with the assault on Pir Paimal. My challenge will be to get the figures finished. I basically have them all but not all are painted. I am not that good of a painter and I think I am going to send them off to Fernando Enterprises to get the balance of them finished.

Very clever ideas, thank you.

Fernando often do a nice job. As you probably already know, just be sure to send along explicit painting guides for your various figures.

These days I send my figures out to be painted as well. Maybe when my 3 kids are all grown and work is less demanding, I will get back to painting figures as well as building terrain, but it will probably require a powerful magnifying glass!