"Cork Duct Tape and terrain" Topic

Yes. There is such a thing as Cork Duct Tape. It's in Walmart in the Crafts section.
It's a fraction less than 2" wide, and the roll is about 20' long. Costs $4.99 USD per roll.
It has backing on the adhesive.
The pieces lay flat when cut and laid out.
Surface takes craft acrylic paint very well.
You can have roads. Paint the surface and flock the edges.

I got it for trenches in FoW. I painted the whole cork surface a medium brown, and flicked the edges with grass etc.
I made my center narrower than a typical FoW medium base, but I was going for a realist looking trench, rather than one in scale with the base. You can always make the trench as wide as the base, but then it looks like a road.

I'm doing a load tonight. If it skids across my tabletop, I can always peel off the tape backing the first time. The adhesive will rapidly get "dirty" and not be a problem.
Do you think 20' of trenches is enough in a game?

OK, Winston, this sounds interesting. I'll try to remember to look for it next time I'm at Walmart. Any chance of photos, particularly of a toad?

Grelber

I have some samples drying now. I'll try to put some pictures up tomorrow.

One thing that I learned just now. Apply paint and flocking BEFORE you peel off the backing. It prevents warping. If you're going to Tape the tape permanently to something, that shouldn't be an issue.

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Mmm, makes me wonder what it was actually intended for – won't work as 'repair anything' duct tape very well?

Hmm. For scrap-booking, I think. And to wrap around cardboard boxes (I'm guessing that part from the picture). There's also another type of cork tape that is thicker and more expensive, and used for musical instruments.

For curved roads, maybe buy the large cork roll, peel the backing and adhere it to a a full-sized poster board. The apply paint and then finally cut your strips in the desired shapes:

Dan
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I love the arguments over "duck tape" vs "duct tape".
For all the arguments conclusively proving that it's purpose is to repair ducts, it was originally made from cotton duck cloth.

I'm going to go look for this tonight, sounds like it'd work for 6mm four lane highways.

I want to see the finished pictures please.

Matthew