Hello There. Alongside the desert terrain, I have been making some terrain tiles for the above. These will be used for NW Europe, American Civil War and any other temperate climate.
The construction is the same as the desert terrain, up to the point that the surface finish is obtained. The tile already has a hardened coat of tile adhesive.
The desert terrain has a light spread of small stones, then a layer of sawdust.
The temperate terrain has a scatter of small stones (obtained by sieving sharp sand from a builders merchants), scattering that onto a layer of PVA watered down and spread over the whole board.
Then this is topped off with a covering of the sand from the same sharp sand.
When this has hardened and the PVA has set then the tile is painted 'English Brown' this is the same shade from the Vallejo range of paints. I have used artists paint and mixed a quantity of a close approximation to this colour, (Raw Umber and Yellow Ochre).
When the colour has dried I have dry brushed a layer of an an artists paint equivalent of 'Iraqui Sand' over the entire surface. When that is dry we are onto applying the flock.
I initially used Earth Blend fine turf. With hindsight, I will not bother with that step in the future as it is so similar to the painted surface that I do not think it is worth it.
The idea of obtaining a realistic covering is to keep the different shades of tine turf random and do not cover the whole tile in just one shade.
Leave gaps to show the painted surface through.
I used fine turf flock from the Woodland Scenics range. The colours I used are Burnt Grass, Green Grass and Medium Blend. Finally I used some 2mm Green static grass. Mine was in my stock and from 'OO scenics' which a model railway scenery company.
As seen above the glue used was watered down PVA which still had a very adhesive quality and covered well. It also extended the use of the PVA.
This was the covering for the Earth Blend, which would be excessive coverage if I was using some of the other colours.
Use one colour at a time and let it dry. In this way you can conserve the different colours without mixing them all to one homogenous colour.
This is one completed. It now requires a covering of watered down PVA.
Once the last colour has dried then you can cover the whole surface with a thin layer of PVA and water. This helps the fine flock stay on your scenery. It will dry clear and harden the surface. I would normally add more clump foliage or bushes.
This is a modular tile which the tutorial for was in Wargames, Soldiers, Strategy magazine. While it does not fit into the modular height of the other tiles, I have made some tiles to flank this which will bring it into use. Of course I have added some clump foliage. The brown circles on the top right are places for the trees which are not permanently fixed to the tile. This is so if there are knocked they fall over and so not snap off.
In this case, I intend to place modular terrain such as roads, fences, stone walls and bocage on top, so making the surface more uneven would defeat the object of the terrain.
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