"WIP Teddy bear fur terrain tiles" Topic

Hi guys

Done some more work on my teddy bear terrain tiles, it will be a general purpose board for all eras and genres, designed to fit 15mm-28mm, have shaved the dirt roads out with clippers, reduced the tyre ruts down with a long necked bbq lighter, I'll glue sand into the tyre ruts and paint brown, the long brown/white stripe on the right will be a river, I plan on filling it with clear resin after detailing the river bed, and will be shaping the grass in differant areas, and colouring it various greens/yellows/browns, I need to make more tiles with a single end to end road, have done enough t/y/x intersection, and will do more farming and plain fields, as well as some scatter hills and other terrain, plan on train tracks, houses to suit Russian, Normandy and some fantasy/Medieval buildings and a bridge accross the river as well as some shallow river crossings.
More pics here
gunnerswargamming.blogspot.com/2021/04/wip-teddy-bear-terrain-tiles.html

Gee that just sounds and looks weird !

Took me a while to bag a green teddy bear, they're hard to see, good camo.

Great idea to use the fur for tiles.

Dan, excellent execution!

I like how you've left tall grass in the road centers, which will help blend over the seams between adjoining tiles.

You may have noticed your fur has a bias to the pile, as to which direction it's tends to lay…..you may consider aligning any field furrows sympathetic to this bias. Then when you pivot your tiles for setups, the fur bias will seem to follow the natural contours of any field furrows/crop lines.

You can also "agitate" the fur bias with PVA glue and a comb, giving longer fur a thickening, and/or heightened appearance – more for portraying roadside brambles, thickets, tall crops, rather than as smoother grasslands (though pre-experiment and scrap test first).

Is this your first TB mat (you already look practiced)?

Yes, first time shaping the mat, I've had this fur for around 6 years and have used it with scatter terrain, but was never 100% happy with it, I still have these larger scatter roads I made for it

Well, you're going the Full Monty now! :)

Oh, one thing….sure you want your tile edges painted black, instead of green (actually a slightly lighter green than your common fur color)? This might help minimize the seams more.

Also, you might want to paint the sides up over your foam slightly along the edges, just in case any gluing, that might draw up your fabric, isn't unsightly (easier to do any additional painting on those sides before affixing the fur).

Furs already glued down, I used black gesso, as it also seals glues the foam shut, I can give it a brown dry brush later, but the black isn't to bad at hiding the seams.

I suspect with a little teasing, most, if not all of the fur can be used to cover up those seams so they are totally invisible.

Great project. Looking really good so far. 😀

Yeah, I think your right, I didn't even try to cover the seams for this pic.

I would fight you for those crossroads :)

First man who actually takes his hairbrush to conventions!
Such a metrosexual world ':

My Romanians did well that day.

That works far better than I'd have thought from the headline . . .

SAVE THE TEDDY BEARS!!!!

They're an endangered species y'know!

yeah, the green ones are almost extinct.

Typo in the heading. Should have read "RIP teddy: bear fur terrain tiles".

I'll get my coat,
John

Tip the waiter on the way out 🤣

Thank you, I'll be here all week