Hello There! As you will see I have been busy building up the terrain for the desert. The last blog post on the modular terrain is here. Since then I have built a number of scenic tiles and a rack to store it on safely.
The plain flat tiles do have some subtle folds in the ground to provide a potential hull down situation for any tanks used in games. The tiles are 600mm x 600mm with some of the slopes and flat areas being 600mm x 300mm and 300mm x 300mm.
The sides are timber and square so they butt up to each other. The base in 3.6mm thick plywood.
Once the styrofoam is glued in place and dry it is then sculpted with a Stanley surform. Then the bigger gaps in the foam and around the edges of the foam and timber edges are filled with a small amount of tile adhesive and allowed to dry overnight.
I do this as applying on thick coat of tile adhesive, and filling the gaps at the same time takes many days to set hard.
The complete surface is then covered in tile adhesive and spread evenly using a wide blade scraper. To ensure the surface is smooth I then used a 2" wide, wet paint brush to gently smooth out any raised points.
If you require the surface of the tile to be flat, I used the edge of a steel rule to draw across the surface. The above illustration is a sloping tile and I wanted the surface to be level.
Next a layer of watered down PVA glue was applied over the whole surface and various combinations of fine gravel, sand and sawdust was applied to the surface and allowed to dry. This may take a couple of nights, depending on temperature.. When this has dried thoroughly then I shall paint.
I am now up to the painting part and will describe that in parrt four.
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