Thursday, 18 March 2010

Fields of Zama

Sorry that my hithertoo regular posts have become somewhat sporadic!  I've been very busy with life in general, and some very time-consuming and non-photogenic elements of the Zama project.

Here is one such element.  These fields (and others not shown here) all needed to be cut into shape, trimmed, shaved with my Wahl hair trimmer and dyed with diluted acrylic paint.


The next stage will be to stick them onto the terrain boards.  Then I'll need to dress the terrain boards with clumps of static grass, leaves, weeds and whatever.  The board project is now around 75% complete!  Never again.  ;-)
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8 comments:

  1. The Lord of Excess18 March 2010 at 20:56

    Sorry maybe I'm just missing it ... but what material are you using for the fields? Interesting looking stuff.

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  2. BigRedBat19 March 2010 at 00:06

    Hi LoE, it is teddy bear fur. The whiter stuff is very cheap material, the darker material imitation wolf pelt I bought on ebay. I've stained both with much-diluted brown acrylic paint.

    I'm pleased with the fur concept. It is a bit fiddly to trim, but breaks a table up nicely.

    One day I may try to do a huge area in green, as some gamers do...

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  3. Prufrock19 March 2010 at 01:05

    Looking forward to seeing picures of the finished boards, BRB. I'm sure that photographs, no matter how well taken, will not do justice to the scale of the final spectacle. It'd be just about worth going halfway round the world for... Maybe you could take it on tour - Led Zama, live at Budokan!

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  4. ZeroTwentythree19 March 2010 at 05:10

    Funny, I was just thinking "no recent updates on the Zama project. He must be buried in it! :)

    The final product is going to look impressive!

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  5. BigRedBat19 March 2010 at 08:28

    Thanks chaps! I'm confident, now, that the boards will look good when finished. If the weather holds, I'll have the fields on today.

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  6. jmilesr19 March 2010 at 10:21

    It looks as if your building to a fabulous gaming event. I think I'll give the Teddy bear fur a go for a scenery project

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  7. AJ (Allan) Wright19 March 2010 at 12:43

    Keep at it, the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming freight train!

    Looking good so far.

    AJ

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  8. The Lord of Excess21 March 2010 at 18:12

    Awesome idea! I'm working on a few different ACW/Old West terrain boards and I do believe I'm going to steal your idea! Thanks ... good stuff!!

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Thanks for commenting. I will post this as soon as I am able to review it.