"Ditches, Sunken Roads, Dry Creekbeds" Topic

Does anybody have any tips for portraying these types of terrain on the table? I need some dry creekbeds for some 15mm minis to hide inside (at a ground scale of about 1"=20yds.)

I made a duplicate river.

Sections of the river bottom are covered randomly with white glue and sand, then painted a different shade of earth and dry-brushed to pick out the stones.

The banks have dried grass and the interior is darkened to give an illusion of depth.

Scroll down to game 3.
dbagora.blogspot.nl

Cheers,

Hi Don,

I did my dry rivers for my desert terrain by cutting a shape for the river then putting small rocks and grass around the banks. There are pictures here

link

Perhaps a few reeds would help for more temperate climates.

You might consider the Peter Pig scenery "depressions" they can be used to cretae the sort of scenic youa re thinking of.

link

scenery pieces number 63

You may be looking for something more 3D and realistic, but I just cut up a bit of old gaming mat and lined the edge with gravel. Works OK for me (and looks better on a proper mat – this one was a fill in!)

If making terrain pieces like Alan showed above, you can also reinforce the notion of a depression by painting it with darker shadows in the "deep" parts and fading that up to lighter colors at the "higher" edges.

I use GeoHex for my terrain so no problems with 3D terrain issues.

Thanks for all the ideas! Lots of food for thought.