Warhammer Realm of Battleboard Finished

by | Aug 6, 2014


UPDATED TABLE PIC:
Above pic is of the table once I smoothed the transitions :) 


So after a good few weeks of stop start flocking and working on the Realm of Battleboard I finished it last night. Brutally honest im not super happy with the lighter dead grass at the edges, it is too much of stark end to the grass which didnt come off quite how I had wanted. So I am going to go back and feather on some more of the green grass in a light layer over the egdes just to smooth the transition down.

Anyway so here is a step by step guide as to how I did my board:

Stage 1
Spray the entire board Black.

Stage 2
Spray the main soil area brown and the rock areas grey.

Stage 3
Wash the entire board with a very dark wood stain (works like a Dip or wash).

Stage 4
Dry Brush the brown areas with light brown. Dry Brush the rock with progressively lighter greys.

Stage 5
Wash the edges of the grey rock with Athonian Camoshade to give a moss effect on the rock.

Stage 6
Cut and PVA down a roll of model railway grass mat (I used 1 and a half Javis Autumn 4’x2’ grass mats). This will take 24hours to fully glue with pva, very very messy!!

Stage 7
Smooth the transitions between the mat and soil with loose flock to match your grass mat (I used Javis Autumn Flock Mix). This will take 24hours to fully glue with pva, very very messy!!

Stage 8
Around the edges of the mat put down an layer of dead grass (I used GW Dead Grass) as this is generally how grass ends. This will take 24hours to fully glue with pva, very very messy!!

Stage 9
Apply a final layer of your original flock to smooth the transition between dead and living grass (I still need to do this). This will take 24hours to fully glue with pva, very very messy!!

Stage 10
Dry Brush the trademark GW skulls with bleached bone or similar!

Stage 11
Feet up, beer out, army deployed, roll dice and enjoy!