| Grumble87106 | 22 Jan 2020 9:21 p.m. PST |
I'm preparing river sections for a game at Cold Wars 2020, so I decided to photograph the process with a tutorial. You may read the work in progress at the Command Decision forum site. link |
| Karellian Knight | 23 Jan 2020 5:54 a.m. PST |
I like that, good idea. I'll try to emulate your idea. |
| JimDuncanUK | 23 Jan 2020 7:24 a.m. PST |
Old School guys sometimes used blue chalk. Draw it and rub it out for the next game. |
| Stryderg | 23 Jan 2020 8:12 a.m. PST |
About an inch or so above/below the joints, sprinkle with a very little caulk and white highlights. Instant rapids/pebble beds that should break up the solid line of the joint. And that is a good idea and implementation. |
| von Schwartz | 23 Jan 2020 4:42 p.m. PST |
To quote Artie Shaw, "Very interesting." |
| CeruLucifus | 25 Jan 2020 2:03 p.m. PST |
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| Grumble87106 | 25 Jan 2020 5:20 p.m. PST |
Old School guys sometimes used blue chalk.Draw it and rub it out for the next game. At one time or another, I have used chalk, blue felt, strips of shelf liner painted light green, etc. Decided it was time for a slight upgrade. ;-) |
| Grumble87106 | 25 Jan 2020 5:28 p.m. PST |
About an inch or so above/below the joints, sprinkle with a very little caulk and white highlights. Instant rapids/pebble beds that should break up the solid line of the joint. Good idea. Also, I was thinking of a bit of lichen or a tree at the water's edge, where the bank doesn't quite reach the next section of bank. If I have time and feel really industrious, I'll make one section that has a ford (there was one across the Rio Grande at Peralta). |
| Bowman | 28 Jan 2020 4:08 a.m. PST |
To quote Artie Shaw, "Very interesting." Arte Johnson |
| Grumble87106 | 10 Feb 2020 11:45 a.m. PST |
If I have time and feel really industrious, I'll make one section that has a ford (there was one across the Rio Grande at Peralta). I have made a ford and will post it on the Command Decision forum site once I have photos of that as well as of the finished river sections (I lost count of the number of coats of Mod-Podge on those!)  |
| wargamingUSA | 14 Feb 2020 6:16 p.m. PST |
@JimDuncanUK… and some of us old school (and just plain old) guys used various blue chalks on fabric and then fixed the chalk with hairspray or artists fixative so the river was ready to go the next time we played the scenario. Easy to drop in a few pebbles at any point along a chalk feature to delineate a ford… and then pick the pebbles up at game's end and save them for next go-round. Come to think of it, we used multiple colors of chalk for quite a few effects. |
| Grumble87106 | 04 Mar 2020 11:35 a.m. PST |
Photos of some completed river sections and the ford can now be seen at the Command Decision Forum website under "Flexible Rivers". link |
| Grumble87106 | 04 Mar 2020 11:42 a.m. PST |
and some of us old school (and just plain old) guys used various blue chalks on fabric and then fixed the chalk with hairspray or artists fixative so the river was ready to go the next time we played the scenario. Easy to drop in a few pebbles at any point along a chalk feature to delineate a ford… and then pick the pebbles up at game's end and save them for next go-round. Come to think of it, we used multiple colors of chalk for quite a few effects. Before we moved house, I had an old ping pong (table tennis) table on which chalk was very convenient to use. Among other things, I sketched hexagonal spaces on it so as to set up table-top Volley and Bayonet battles from hex campaign maps. Some interesting ACW battles in northern Georgia resulted from that. I have also used pebbles to demarcate a brook that was so narrow it didn't even merit any blue! |
