Road to Messina: Building the table #2
During the last weekend we managed to continue our work on the silicy gaming table for FoW. This time we painted the table with sand and paint, and added the first grass.
A quite good vision of our masterplan
The road was built with a mixture of sand, paint and glue
The rocks were made of filler with just a scraper
another view on the road
The tiny river was built with glue, sand and kitty litter (unused)
Another usage for kitty litter - the terrace walls
The first grass was added, the trees are not fixed just for imagination of the final result.
Lemming added thick layer of a glue paint mixture to the rocks in order to stabilize the filler rocks.
Nice view from the valley.
This weekend we added some more eight hours of work which makes in total 16 hours so far. I really do not care for this, it´s just for the documentation purpose.
On Saturday we built the small river ground, the rocky parts and the street and primed the whole surface.
When we primed the surface Lemming used far more sandy paint than me. His result was therefore better at the next day since no awful blue showed on his side whereas on my side I had to cover again quite big parts of it.
We continued to drybrush the whole table with ochre and a light sand colour. I wanted to be lazy and suggested to drybrush after adding the grass. Lemming was not convinced by my ingenious suggestion so we drybrushed the whole of the surface.
Afterwards I tested the grass and bushes in a corner. I started with bushes made of foliage and longer grass bunches in order to have some differences and a natural look in the meadows. I mixed standard green with a brownish autumn grass and used a plastic bottle with several holes in the cap to add it.
Lemming approved my design and started to seed grass on the other side of the table. To be honest the pictures are not as good as the gaming table. The grass looks very realistic. Since time ran out we had to stop here.
To be continued.
