Hi All,

On realising the towering crops I have previously used in my ACW Olustee scenario were out of season I needed to make up some muddy ploughed fields to replace them thereby fitting in with the northern hemisphere's crop cycles!

First up spread some gap filler on grease proof paper, I require 16 10cm x 10cm blocks...

Next smooth out the gap filler...

Then add in some plough trenches (a bit overscale but they'll suffice)...

Add some sand for texture, paint it a muddy sort of colour with a highlight and add some sprouting grain...

Finally get some 6mm Napoleonic Russians to tramp across it...

Including preparation, 'forming' and painting less it took well under three hours to complete and cost under $10 Australian to do all 16 10cm x 10cm panels I needed plus they'll be useful in the future...

Cheers

Hello Darling.

They look pretty good. Something new to try out.

Looks good, Another good, (and cheap) Idea for ploughed fields is to use dark drown courdroy fabric. Just cut it to the shape required then affix it to your chosen base material, and put a bit of flock or static grass etc around the edges. You can get courdroy with quite fine lines which tend to suit 6mm. 

In terms of price, I got a meter by about 60cm for a few quid from the local market, you can get shed loads of fields out of this and indeed can split this between a few mates to make it even cheaper.

apologies for lack of pictures

Very nice work. Try a fine tooth blade like a coping saw for the grooves as it will fit the scale well and it is easier than doing them by hand. Her'es some I made for my terrain boards (sorry not the best photo).

For a few seconds I thought that the above was an aerial photograph, so I wouldn't describe it as "not the best photo". I realised my error when I saw the edge of the mat on the upper left. Great work, and very inspiring!

Yeah lol. I meant it doesnt show the corrugations in the field very well.

Cheers

Kieran

Hey Keiran,

I'll give the saw balde a try.

These ones are actually fitting in better with my 28mm figures :-)...

Cheers!