"How to change the color of Hexon hex tiles" Topic

I bought a lot of Hexon. The bright "spring" green color they use as the default grass looks fine if I set my games in the UK or maybe NWE (because that's what it looks like out the window), but I'd like to have a set of these for games in the Mediterranean or Caribbean or tropics – darker green tones, a lot more yellows and tans and browns mixed in.

Before I start down the long road of making my own flock mixture and gluing it to bare Hexon tiles – has anyone found a way to adjust the color of the pre-flocked Hexon?

I can think of several experiments to try, but I'm looking for advice from someone else who might have accomplished this.

I have Hexgon in green and tan that were given to me so I'm not sure if they were modified or not. You may try various levels of a tan/desert color wash over the green. Maybe a spray gun too.

Wolfhag

Yeah, spray gun or airbrush; would be less frustrating than flocking a large area. Practice on a few hexes first to make sure, though… ;-)

A bit of spray paint goes a long way. I also bought the plain green ones and regret not getting the more mixed tone. The desert transition boards are very good for more arid terrain though, about 70/30 desert tan and green flock. I use them for the Med and Russia in high summer.

I had to make my own winter boards though, which was a right pita, but worth the effort.

I would suggest spray painting some cardboard box material a similar color of green to the tiles. Experiment with colors and techniques, on the cardboard, before you paint a Hexon tile: make sure you have the correct colors, blending and application techniques, first. Try to avoid ruining any Hexon tiles, or at least, minimize the number of tiles you ruin through your experimentation. ;-) Cheers!

I also bought the plain green ones and regret not getting the more mixed tone.

I actually bought mostly mixed tone, but the lion's share are two-tone (earth/spring green), because that's what they sell in a whole box. I wanted a couple whole boxes of three tone (earth/spring green/dark green), and I thought that's what I was ordering, but it turns out the "Triple 7 mix" on the web site is 7 each of plain green, two tone (bright green, and three tone. So now I have 14 plain green I didn't want at all, too many two-tone, and only 14x three-tone. If I lived in the UK, I'd have made an issue out of this, but shipping to the US is so onerous I'm better off "fixing" the colors myself. I bought some bags of the Noch flock from Kallistra, so some afternoon soon I'll be able to convert plain-green and two-tone panels to perfectly matching three-tone panels, as many as I would like.

But first… I want to see if there's a way to convert panels to look more like sub-tropical Tunisia and less like northern France. Like Sgt Slag suggests:

make sure you have the correct colors, blending and application techniques, first.