"Painting Non-Slip Shelf Liners" Topic

I'd love to see photos of it in use. This may be a really useful trick. Cheap, easy to make, easy to use. Better than felt!

Is the intent to set these over a colored base, to suggest crop fields or some such? I could see how that could work, in some scales, and in some color combinations.

The previous article stated they were useful in demarcating forested areas, swamps, and other terrain types: put a few trees atop the shelf liner such that players understand the shape of the shelf liner represents the extent of the forest terrain, but the trees can be freely moved out of the way of figures, as needed for movement. I use printed fabrics for the same method: forest (add a few tree models atop it), swamp (add a few plastic plants on bases, on top). I use printed fabric patterns that match (as visually logical as possible) the type of terrain I wish to represent. I use my wife's serger sewing machine to cut the fabric into oddly shaped ovals, finishing the edges with its multi-threaded seams, which prevent fraying.

In game use involves laying them down, often one partially over the top of others, in the desired pattern and size, then place a few plant models on top. It is fast and easy. Its immpact occurs when troops/figures encounter the material: their movement rate is reduced according to how that type of terrain affects them (usually slowing them down; sometimes impassible, depending on the unit/vehicle type). Light/dense woods can be noted with different colors/patterns, or even tree models employed. Cheers!

I use a dedicated-to-this-purpose slow cooker/crock pot to speed dry my figures after applying oil-based polyurethane stain: I bake them for 30 minutes, on Low Heat (170 F to 200 F), and this works for plastic (melts @ 300+ F), resin (burns at 300+ F), metal figures (melt @ 600+ F) without issue. I would do this outside, with a test piece of the shelf liner…

I made some terrain using pink insulation foam, carved, covered with solvent-proof latex paint, then covered with oil-based polyurethane stain; I let the subsequent three dozen pieces air dry, for several days, without any damage occurring from the polyurethane application, going on 6+ years now. After 30 minutes in the 170 F slow cooker oven, the foam had shriveled to 1/3 its size, completely ruined. I've never heated the shelf liner, but heating it will definitely cure the paint quickly -- if the shelf liner can withstand the heat! Cheers!