Thursday, June 6, 2013

Gaming Mat part II

After letting the mat sit for 24 hours, I slapped a coat of Apple Barrel brown as the base coat. While wet, I shot it with spray paint, some kind if lighter brown. I originally wanted to use all spray paint on this but I was afraid, and probably wrongfully so, of the paint cracking.



 Notice how much the dried caulk caused the canvas to shrink up and pull on the nails. Glad I nailed it down!

 While the paint was still drying, I started flocking with a mix of dark green, light green, and earth flock all from Woodland Scenics. 

I also was spraying the crap out of everything with watered down pva as I went and gave it two more good soakings with the pva spray throughout the day. 

 Tonight I cut it from the board and beheld my creation. It turned out just as all the other DIY folks said it would. Very durable and very little flock shedding. I'll leave you with a few shots. Hopefully I'll get the play on it this weekend!



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 1:28 AM

    That looks fantastic and far more practical than I expected. The two posts make a really great, straightforward tutorial too.

    Great stuff!

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    1. UnknownJune 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM

      Thanks for that! My plan is to make a snow mat and a Mordor-ish themed mat next. The snow mat makes me a bit nervous though lol.

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  2. BedfordJuly 4, 2014 at 12:37 AM

    Brilliant! This will be very useful- thanks for posting the process up.

    Darrell.

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  3. AlexOctober 1, 2018 at 12:47 PM

    No issues with the caulk soaking through and sticking to the plywood?

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