Terrain Project Part 3 – Finishing Touches
And by finishing touches I basically mean lots of glue and flock! I keep telling my son that there’s nothing you can’t do with PVA glue. So far he doesn’t seem convinced, but we have yet to come a cropper when using it. If it doesn’t stick, then that’s just because you didn’t use enough PVA glue!
Anyhow, here are a few images of the finished game board. The hills were fixed to the board with loads of PVA and then the whole thing was flocked with a couple of bags of woodland scenic’s turf – one bag of green blend and one earth blend (again, stuck down with a suitable quantity of PVA glue.
Game Board
One of the hill pieces
Difficult terrain on the hill tops
As can be seen from the last image I used some gravel to represent the rocky cliffs. That needed a lot of PVA, plus regular coats of PVA afterwards to make sure they were stuck fast. I ended up pouring small amounts of PVA over the stones over a couple of days to get them to stick properly. Also I sprayed a coat of watered-down PVA over all of the flock after a couple of hours just to bond it to the board a bit better.
Finally, and after everything had dried, I sprayed each of the boards with varnish (satin in this case) for an added layer of protection.
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