Taking advantage of this long weekend, I was able to spend some time in the basement, finishing up one project & then beginning another.
I completed the remainder of the fields I was working on & now have field ranging from bare earth to harvested. The only type I haven't done is snow covered...
For the harvested field, I used some cut hemp rope to represent the remnants of the harvested grain. Yes it was messy & a visit to the painting area by the vaccum is forthcoming. Once they are completely dry, I may clip the rows further to make it more like the stubble I see yearly outside my house.
As to my next project, for some time now I've been pondering a redo of my trees. They have had a rough time of it & in fact were built without painting in most cases as I needed them done for an event. However now I am stripping them down to do them properly.
I will retain the use of my foam hexes as the bases to represent both Light & Heavy Woods, however will also build-up some more single based trees. The foam hexes allow me to group them together to create larger woods, but I am getting ahead of myself. Today was just the stripping of the old tiles & scrubbing most of the foliage from the trees that need to be redone. I was getting tired of finding foliage all over the place after games, so this has me thinking I need to do a better job with mounting it better & not just rolling it around.
Stay tuned!
Great stuff Terry! You can never have enough fields on the table. Interesting idea using the rope to represent harvested grain, definitely looks the business.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ivor, I think I have 2 or 3 mats worth of fields now. Some of the others I game with have their fields too, so we should be covered!
DeleteThe stubble fields look the biz and probably complete the whole growth cycle of your fields. I hate having to work on trees, so good luck with those too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe! They can be trying, which is why everyone goes with fir trees I think
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