Monday, 11 February 2013

Terrain - Roads

Winner Dave here, continuing my recent kick into sorting out my terrain situation.

Last time, I showed you the standard issue fields (crop and ploughed) along with the bocage/hedgerows I made.


You could also see the embyronic stage of my roads.


Here's the finished article.





I used vinyl cork tiles that you can get in hardware stores...like this

It's easy to cut, pliable and durable.

Once I'd cut lengths of it, I coated it in super thinned black poster paint and left it to dry overnight.  The result it an effect you wouldn't be ashamed to slap on the table, but I wanted more.

Next I roughly airbrushed dark grey all over.  Then I did the twin lines of medium grey and finely another set of lines inside them of light grey.


After that I airbrushed dark brown along the edges.


I put the airbrush down and turned to the paintbrush.  It was out with one of my favourite colours VMC Green Brown.  I drybrushed the edges and down the middle.


Finally copious amounts of PVA and flock along the edges.

I'm so happy with the result, I think this is the best terrain I've made to date.

Onwards and upwards!


Dave

6 comments:

  1. WOW! That looks really cool. Great work.

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  2. Similar to mine but I still need to weather the track marks and add grass\flock to the shoulders. Yours will be my inspiration. http://gregswargamingblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Road

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  3. They sell that cork stuff at arts and crafts stores in the scrap booking section too! Great article!

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