Modular Terrain Board — In Progress

WRITTEN ON December 29th, 2008 BY jimbeau AND STORED IN Miniatures

In this post, I promised I’d submit an update with how it was done.

Well, here it is.

The Board

We had an idea for a game in a cemetery and needed each side to be nearly exactly the same, so I planned! I drew out the plans for the cemetery in illustrator and printed it life sized (without the green background)

I then cut out the individual squares so I could see what was on each one.

Modular Terrain Board Plan

First step, cut squares from plywood. I thought the plywood would be better than hardboard because it might not warp as badly later. I was right, but the plywood still warped.

The square of plywood

Then, I primed it with random spray paint colors I had in the garage. I did this because I did not want to have to paint the whole thing and I knew that theflock wouldn’t cover everything perfectly.

Primed Squares

Then cover the square with PVA glue.  This part can be messy and takes a LOT of glue.

Starting to spread the PVA

The PVA is spread

Notice that I udes a large piece of cardboad to spread the PVA. I did manage to use only one piece of cardboard the entire time. It got really funky by the end because I did this over the course of several weeks.

Complete the base with a healthy layer of flock and let stand for a least a day.

Lots of Flock

I’ll have to go back now and paint the edges to make them blend better. but this took forever to dry. After the gue was dry, I noticed many of the board had a slight to moderate warp to them. I used a wet sponge on the back to try to straighten out the warp from the other side, and that did okay. After all was complete with each piece, I sprayed it with matte finish to hopefully keep the flock on the wood. This part was very successful.

Next: the terrain