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)

Chaos Shrine (Terrain / Tutorial)

As being a bit eager to get my "Dark Vengeance" Box from Games Workshop I already did some hopefully fitting terrain piece for the gaming table.

This is the actual project.. a shrine to the evil eye supposed to be used with Warhammer 40K.
Things used: old Styrofoam from the TV set, cardboard,ash from the last bbq, Styrofoam glue , Styrofoam coating (white), Acryl colors "Lakritz", two different grey shades
purple , two different red , light blue and white
As this is my first project and first piece of terrain I would be grateful for any hints and suggestions.
What happened by now:
Cut the Storyfoam into desired pieces with cuttings etc. ,Cut out the eye as well as the two stripes (going up and down) ,Glued all things to a cut piece of Styrofoam, Undercoated it with Styrofoam coating,Painted the whole stuff black and let it dry,
Drybrushed with the two grey colours,Drybrushed with watered ash from the last bbq
Painted the eye and stripes purple, drybrushed in two different shades of red
Painted white and blue.
Thats what happened by now..