Being new to terrain building, I decided to set myself a goal to complete some terrain pieces for a friend for his 15mm Flames of War game. Using basic and cheap household items, I'm aiming to build detailed pieces that we can use to play with, without putting in large amounts of money for professional terrain.
I've been following some professional terrain builders for tips and ideas as well as following the guidance of friends, I've decided to add in my own ideas, and put them to work. Firstly, I purchased some cheap cleaning sponges, which I painted Brown and dry brushed a few lighter tones to add some contrast.
I then found a backboard of a bookshelf lying around doing nothing, which I measured and cut up for the base of the fields. I hot glued the sponges down and added spakfiller to soften up the edges and give it an uneven and more 'natural' mud look once dried. I then painted the base a coat of Brown and moved onto the fences.
To make the fences, I used 5cm hobby wood sticks and measured out the height of the supports and the length of the beams and cut them individually. I made up individual fence pieces and glued them together using PVA glue and left them to dry. The whole process was pretty time consuming and rather boring and did require some patience. Once dried, the really fiddly and frustrating process of hot gluing them together and onto the base followed, which tested my patience even more.
Now came the fun part, painting the fences. I started off with a Burnt Umber - which was probably too dark and matched everything else. I then mixed in Raw Sienna to make a much lighter tone of Brown and gave the fences some dry brushing to lighten them. Once dried, I added Matt White to lighten the Brown even more, then added a few more coats using the dry brush technique.
Once dried, it really started to stand out and I was feeling pleased with how it was all coming together. To add some detail to it all, I used some clean gravel and glued them in various places using PVA glue. Given that some of my fences didn't glue as well as I had hoped, I was able to use the gravel to look like rocks left in some of the more 'damaged' looking areas, to seem like they were blocking the hole.
I then added a few layers of Stone Grey paint, followed with some dry brushing using the Matt White to get them to stand out and give off the impression they are rocks. This was a tricky task and required a pretty steady hand and a keen eye. Some mistakes were made, but I worked to fix them. Following this, I added a light dry brush of Forest Green and another lighter tone of Brown to give it an earthy look. Finally, I added a very light coat of PVA to some of the recesses in the field and added a watered down coat around the base and added two tones of Green Flock and finished up with some Grass Tufts.
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