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A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break and haven't looked back since. I must admit that I seem to be more of a painter/collector than a gamer, but do hope to correct that at some point in the near future. My gaming interests span the ages, from the "Biblical" era all the way through to the far future. I enjoy games of all sizes, from a handful of figures up to major battles (see my megalomaniacally sized Choson Korean and Russian Seven Years War armies).

Sunday 16 April 2017

Desert Terrain Day 12

And I've almost finished the terrain pieces. Just the plateau, river and road pieces to go. And adding tufts and scrub to various pieces. And crops and palms to the fields and plantations. I might also go back and tint various rocks to add some variety.

Anyway, here are the nearly-finished pieces:


Steep hill and gentle hills
 
Fields and plantations

Sand dunes and gully
 
Scrub and village bases

This afternoon I've been making tufts to add to them. I started off doing 2mm tufts on some A6 pieces of two potential backing materials - the backing sheets from adhesive flexometal that I use to line boxes for troop storage and glossy photo paper (12 x A4 sheets from the pound shop). Then I did some mixed 2mm/4mm tufts on the foil backed parchment that I've been using.

Bottom left = flexometal backing; Bottom right = glossy photo paper
The next test for the two trial pieces is how easily the tufts will come off - that will need to wait until tomorrow to give the tacky glue time to cure. However, like I saw previously with OHP film and plastic from punched-pockets, the flexometal backing appeared to develop a static charge on the surface which meant lots of the static grass loosely adhered even where there was no glue.

After letting them settle for a bit I did a small sheet of 4mm tufts on the foil-parchment:


Provided the tufts on the test backings peel off easily,


Tomorrow afternoon (and into the evening), I'll be at the club for a big game of King of the Battlefield - all those Russians I painted up during the Challenge will get their first blooding!
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11 comments:

  1. GaryA16 April 2017 at 22:46

    Very impressive and nicely done 👍

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  2. Dannoc16 April 2017 at 23:33

    Great looking desert scenery especially those hills.

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  3. jmilesr17 April 2017 at 00:26

    Excellent work

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  4. Neil Scott17 April 2017 at 06:08

    Excellent progress

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  5. Greg17 April 2017 at 06:54

    Excellent work Tamsin can't wait to see them on the battlefield.

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  6. Michael Awdry17 April 2017 at 08:30

    You are certainly making great progress Tamsin.

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  7. Blaxkleric17 April 2017 at 17:02

    Great series of postings Tamsin, and they should go a long way to making your desert tabletop look awesome!!

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  8. Dartfrog17 April 2017 at 17:46

    Great terrain, and I continue to follow your Flockbox experiments with interest. I think I need to upgrade my own power supply as well.

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  9. Maerk18 April 2017 at 12:19

    Great work! I wonder how you discern your steep hills from the gentle hills (given this is necessary for your ruleset)? Is it simply the shape of the hill or do you place some kind of markers?

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  10. TamsinP22 April 2017 at 21:56

    Thanks all! :)

    @ Maerk - I made the gentle hills using 10mm styrofoam and the steep hill with 25mm so they are easy to distinguish :)

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  11. BigLee23 April 2017 at 14:30

    Great pictures Tamsin. It was good to see you as always and you certainly had a good shopping experience! I bought more than planned this year, but not necessarily what I expected!

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