Thursday, August 28, 2014

$5.00 Fields

As I was on the way home from picking up my wife at the airport we stopped at the Dollar store for some things. I wandered around & picked up some more cheap brushes (for painting terrain) & another bottle of my favorite Burnt Umber.

Then I noticed some mats. Hmmm green & brown, they would make great fields!


I know many other gamers have done the same thing. Cut up the carpets into various sizes & like magic, we have furrowed fields for our miniatures to game on.

Not happy with just the green matt, I decided to add a bit of colour, so some burnt umber soil & a scrubbing of Spanish Olive to highlight the plants.


The final result works for me. I also bought a brown mat, not shown, for harvested fields. No paint required for those.


Not bad for $5.00.
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10 comments:

  1. timAugust 28, 2014 at 6:25 PM

    Those look pretty sharp, Terry. Thanks for posting this. I will have to keep my eye out for some similar carpet!

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    1. Terry SilverthornAugust 28, 2014 at 6:31 PM

      Thanks Tim, if you don't have any luck, let me know & I will check here for more of them.

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  2. UnknownAugust 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM

    Great post dude!

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  3. PatGAugust 29, 2014 at 2:21 AM

    I have exactly those same mats. Big fields for 28mm and little ones for 6mm. I love the Dollar Store.

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    1. Terry SilverthornAugust 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM

      Pat, I used to just go check out the paint & brushes, but have started checking all the aisles. They already have their Halloween stuff out, so even more stuff to delve thru. I also get their magnetic sheets for kids lockers (right now they are NHL players). I use these for box bottoms for my miniatures to help prevent them bouncing around. One never knows what they will find there

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  4. UnknownAugust 29, 2014 at 10:41 AM

    I did the same thing, bought a huge stack of them for future projects. I'm working on turning a couple into rice paddies.

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  5. Terry SilverthornAugust 29, 2014 at 11:20 AM

    Nice Larry, will they be ready in time for your game Tuesday? I may stop by another this weekend to see if I can get some more for future projects as well.

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  6. Disgruntled FusilierSeptember 3, 2014 at 5:22 PM

    Looks great!! They have a ton of 4 inch square green matt "samples" at big box home improvement stores (Home Depot in the US) and they would work great for 6mm up to 15mm wargaming fields. Thanks for posting, I'm off to the store to purchase "Spanish Olive!"

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    1. Terry SilverthornSeptember 4, 2014 at 11:21 AM

      Thanks for reading Steven, enjoy your project. I am also dabbling with a foliage green. One thing about the craft paints, is there are so many variants, it can be daunting.

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