"How'd they made this mat? Anyone know?" Topic
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| forwardmarchstudios | 02 May 2015 7:45 p.m. PST |
link I'd like to try something similar for 3mm Napoleonics. I was wondering how exactly he made this mat- it looks really nice. I tried emailing the website but didn't get a response. Has anyone seen it or heard about how it was made? I can't tell if it was sprayed painted, air brushed or done with crayon or chalk of some sort. If the creator of this excellent mat is reading this, please fill me in! regards,
FMS |
| Pedrobear | 02 May 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
The divisions between the fields are masked with strips of tape, and then the fields are spray-painted on. The roads and rivers seem to have been hand-brushed onto the mat. |
| HistoryPhD | 02 May 2015 9:03 p.m. PST |
I have to agree. The fields very definitely look masked off and then sprayed. |
 Extra Crispy  | 02 May 2015 9:49 p.m. PST |
Yup. A dedicated game mat with just the towns and that one field put down on top. The author of the 1870/1859/1866 rule books does the same and has a very nifty tutorial in his rule books. |
| Extra Crispy | 02 May 2015 9:50 p.m. PST |
Here's a link to that tutorial that you can download as a PDF: link |
| LesCM19 | 03 May 2015 2:14 a.m. PST |
Mark Luther's method for a similar effect:
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Checkout his other albums for fab terrain |
| jeffreyw3 | 03 May 2015 3:07 a.m. PST |
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| forwardmarchstudios | 03 May 2015 9:44 a.m. PST |
Hi all, Thanks for the responses. I could tell it was masked spray, but I was wondering about whether an air brush or a spray had been used, plus material. I was sort of hoping the original building would see this, haha. Anyways. That jungle board looked good, although the times I've used pastel crayons the end result looked like some sort of bad piece of 1980s corporate art. Really bad, really ugly. Other people seem to have great luck with the patels- maybe I had the wrong colors?
Bruce Weigle, of course, the king of terrain set-ups, the only problem I have with his stuff is that it's not easily transportable, plus requires an air brush, which I've never had any luck using. Maybe I need to get a good quality one… |
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