I'm currently working on setting up the scenery for the Teugen-Hausen scenario in 1809. It calls for a large wooded ridge on one side, which required some extra work for me to get a look I was happy with.
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| Here's the start. The ridge is visible better in the next picture. I tried putting my trees on this, but the problem with having a mat with all fields on it is that it just looked like fields with random trees on it, not a forest! |
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| This shows how steep the ridge is. |
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| The only solution of course was to make a forest floor mat that would sit atop my main mat and make it look less agrarian. This is a scrap piece of canvas I had, cut into two smaller sections. Above, you see one of the sections in progress. I smear brown DAP cedar brown caulk using a plastic spatula tool, then sprinkle several colors of flock on it. I use a mixed brown color and then some highlights of green. I only do a foot or two at a time so I can get the flock on before the caulk dries. It's spread pretty thin over the canvas, so it starts to set pretty quick. |
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| Here's the original ridge. Too much like fields and no amount of trees is going to make it look like a forest. |
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| Here are the two mats (overlapping) in place. Now we're talking! Looks much more like a wild area. |
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| And a shot with the trees in place. I really need more trees to be truly happy, but the supplies I need to make more won't arrive until next week, so this is it for now. Still plenty of room to deploy troops. I just move the tree stands as needed as the troops move through. |
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