"Making rivers and roads: fast and super cheap" Topic

Continuing a theme….another example of super cheap, fast terrain. I made these a couple years ago as part of a "travel set" with 6mm minis. The idea was to have an entire game in a shoebox. Minis, terrain, dice and all.

The base is just thin white plastic – thinner than milk carton. I marked everything with a sharpie to make sure everything butted up correctly.

To get a nice variegated color, use really thin paint. Not quite a wash, but almost. Then just do several coats. For the river make them narrower so the middle is darker, meaning deeper. I also glued some sand along the edge of the river. The rest is just flock. I made the roads and rivers in an hour or two one afternoon (there are 5' of river and probably 7 or 8 of road in total).

What was the source of the plastic you used?

For sale signs work for this

It was scrap. I honestly don't recall but it was in our trash pile. Sheet styrene would certainly do.

I think it was packaging from a toy?

Good work! I like to see people use some creativity, instead of shelling out big bucks to manufacturers for everything.

great ideas. thanks for sharing. I like the thinned paint suggestion.