Making a new gaming Board

Building Better Worlds

Having been playing a lot of infinity on my modern city board (Look forward to pictures of that coming as soon as the MagLev gets finished) I felt a craving for a green and pleasant land.  So today starts my build a new board project.  I had a GW "Realm of Battle" board laying around.  The first task was to add a proper texture and cover up the bloody skulls.  A few skulls on a fantasy board is fine, but..

1. I want to use this for games that are Historical rather than Grimdark.
2.  few skulls is one thing, but there are hundreds on the real of battle board!
3. The hundreds of skulls appear to be underground, as if the entire population of the world only had heads and all gathered into one place for a mass extinction.  Then thousands of years later after stone and earth had covered their sorry remains, a battle on the field disturbs their eternal slumber!  WHY is there a layer of skulls only under the rock and topsoil GW?

So a layer of sand/gravel and some black paint and the board doesn't have the mass graves of a million bodiless corpses.

So after what seemed like an eternity, the black was dry enough to add the first layer of brown.  This will then (when fully dry) be highlighted an prepared for the next step.  I hope it will be dry soon, as I really would like to get it to the point I can game on it by tomorrow.  With hindsight, I should maybe have waited until AFTER gaming to base paint it lol. 

I will highlight the board with a lighter brown then bone colour, ready for the grass textures to be added.  At this point it would make a serviceable wasteland board.

The next step will be to use various green flocks and scatter to cover most of the board, leaving patches of the exposed earth.  This again will make a serviceable board, but the plan is to go a little bit further.

I have got a selection of different static grasses (various lengths from 1-10mm, and various colours) and some electrical torture devices (static grass applicators) to apply it to the board.

When it is done, a big chunk of the board will look like this test piece I knocked up last night.

Will Update again When More work is done.