The Table Project Part 1

My local DIY store had really nice boards and so it was not a problem getting 30cm by 30cm woodboards for my modular table project.

As this was cut I started around with general measurements. That means I painted a half sized version of one piece on a sheet of paper and started filling it with live (trees, houses, hedgerows, etc). Then I compared it to my general plan and took care it fits. Just to make sure my calculations are correct, I set up a second 30 by 30 board (or in irish measurements approx 1 foot by 1 foot) and painted it fixing to the first. Amazing what you can do with a ruler.

The next thing I did was mixing a 50/50 mixture of PVA glue and water. After mixing the stuff I put in some sand which I collected from the beach and mixed the whole thing through. To get it a bit thinner I needed to add some more water to the whole mixture but that was not much of a problem.

With this mixture I started plastering something on the wood board that later on will be a small or narrow rural road (550mm wide). This measurement allows a stand with 40 by 40mm  to fill the street and not exceed its wideness.

Current status is that I let that whole piece dry for two days now and afterwards actually started basecoating the areas that later on might be grass or similar stuff. I know I need to do that twice at least.

What happened:

- Tile (1 by 1 foot , or 30 by 30cm)
- Used watered down PVA glue and real sand
- rural road 5,5 cm wide made of above mentioned PVA and sand
- used a small stick on doing trail marks
- whole tile sprayed in green 2 times as wood soaks in colour
- watered down dark brown acrylic paint to soak again into the Sand, PVA construction
- Drybrushed with a 50-50 Mixture of dark brown and yellow
- highlighted with yellow

Rural road finished :) I am pleased:)

The tile actually took another brighter coat of green which matches more to the flock I currently own.

After another night of drying out I finally put PVA glue on the wood and carefully sprinkled some green flock on it. The result is what I expected it to be. As the coat of flock is not that thick (need to safe money on that) the basecolour shines through a bit. That doesnt matter that much.

Finished by now:
1) Rural road (glued, painted, drybrushed, ready)
2) Rest of the board (2 times basecoated, 1 time coloured, PVA glued and flocked)