Work in progress on the Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard
From grey plastic to wonderful green flowing hills of static puffiness.
The hills are alive, with the sound of gunfire
These are the steps I‘ve been following for my gameboard. Nothing fancy, pretty quick and dirty otherwise it will never be completed and then it defeats it’s purpose of being a gameboard.
- Take the costly decision to buy the pricy £150 Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard.
- Cover the sturdy grey plastic model with a basecoat of black.
- Paint a layer of green paint on top to give it a good base for the static grass that comes later.
- Drybrush the rocky areas with grey and brown.
- Cover all grass area with PVA glue.
- Apply the static grass.
- Repeat step 5 to 6 if needed.
- Maybe give the rocky parts some more highlights.
Painting the base colors
I‘ve used some old acrylic paints I had laying around. They’re pretty cheap and work fine. I guess they can be found in any art supply store.
I used a small roller to apply black to the large flat areas and then a large brush for the rest.
Mixed a green color from blue, red and yellow because I didn't have a green one.
Out of the box. Plastic Grey.
Cover with a coat of black.
Add some dark green color.
Applying the glue
After a long wait I finally got the delivery of Woodland Scenics Static Grass Flock and Scenic Cement. So far I‘ve been trying to use normal thick PVA glue and it doesn’t work that good. For starters, it dries to fast. Secondly, it dries with a glossy finish.
Scenic Cement
The Scenic Cement is a much better products for gluing on static grass. It‘s very watery and you can spray it on with the Scenic Sprayer. That makes the process of applying glue blazing fast. You might get glue all over the place so cover up the table you’re working on.
The painted and drybrushed gameboard, the Woodland Scenics Static Grass Flock, Scenic Cement and the Scenic Sprayer.
Shake shake shake – the flock is applied
The static grass is applied by squeezing the sides of the canister to puff out the flock onto the glue on the gameboard. It will give you a cramped up feeling in your forearms but it's easy and quickly done.
Gently squeeeeeze. Puff puff puff.
A nice and thick layer of grass.
The grass didn't stick to some areas so I have to go back and fix that.
Next steps
I am far from pleased with the result so far. It looks pretty good but I have to repeat the steps with glue and static grass to cover up the areas where the glue didn‘t stick and therefore the grass didn’t either.
Adding a bit longer grass in certain areas, maybe a couple of leaves, and a bit variation to the color of the grass and the rocks and I think it will be good enough for a game of Mordheim. I will return to this with another blog post when it's finished.
Please comment if you have any questions or like to share your experience with the art of applying static grass.
Etiketter:
woodland scenics, scenery, terrain, mordheim, glue, gameboard, scenic cement, static grass