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Bobscenen 's post apoc battle mat
Topic Started: Jul 27 2017, 11:02 PM (208 Views)
Bobscene
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This battle mat I made about 3 years ago.
It was the first battle mat I ever made. I have no WIP pictures but will try to explain some.

For the base I used some sort of very strong wallpaper (this was enforced with some netting, but you can use any type of strong paper). Because this strip was to small I duck-tapped 2 rows of wallpaper next to each other.
Onto this I glued, mainly with wood glue, the different textures.

The textures are:
the shiny bits (never came around to weather them) are supposed to be some sort of pavement, they are made out of thin (4 mm?) rubber (yoga) mats (never did yoga, this is a cheep source of thin rubber I sometimes use for other projects also),

The streets are also some sort of wall paper this had a nice irregular texture, perfect for asfalt, wall paper is a very good source when you are looking to make battle mats.

some pieces of rubble are thinly sliced 'big hole natural sponge', or pieces of small rubber, cork mixed with sand and woodglue,

the crater blast and the sidewalk boarder stones are cut/engraved out of those rubber A4 mats they sell in art/craft shops (2 mm?),

bits of cardboard (with circle cut out or to make the tiles) are also used/glued.

For the painting, I guess that I first sprayed it blak and then painted the different grey's/beige.
I made 'a mask' to paint the crossings and arrow
finished with the sand/small rubble mixed with glue.
All my weathering is acrylic paint mixed with water.


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The next battle mat I made as an base for my Mordheim village.
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Started out with crumbled an torn textured wallpaper (glued onto other wall paper), on the above foto I already added a mix of wood-glue, sand and (cheap ) grey (poster ?) paint and maybe you can ad some small bitts of cork but I did want it to stay mainly flat because other layers would have to rest on this one

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Here I cut, again from the same wallpaper, different shapes. The fitst layer is already primed black. The first layer will be the streets, on the new forms the houses will come.

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I have my own technique of building. Usually I make a mold. I make my molds very cheap using corn starch and clear silicon (cheapest you can find, smells like vinegar) mix em up in equal parts, after a couple of minutes I becomes as a dough, roll it flat with a bottle and apply to whatever you want to mold. Dry after a couple of hours. No releasing agents necessary.

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On this picture you can see I took a mold of the side walk border stones. I fill my molds with hot glue gun. It' s not perfect (you get air bubble's sometimes) but it 's unbreakable, small defaults are no prob in PA or ruined cities.
So the side walk border stones you see on the picture are actually made out of hot glue gun glue (as are most of my Mordheim buildings).
I used paper squares for pavement tiles (bought a big bag already cut, they use it to make paper mozaïek)

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The wood and other details are also toys molded and cast in hot glue.
Here I smeared some acrylic paint mixed with white wood glue and sand and small stones and torn up (square) paper pieces

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So this is the 'street layer' after painting and weathering

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And this is the ground level of the house after painting

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Like this you get streets

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With buildings (so my buildings are mostly without fixed base),

At the end I made a special Mordheim flock mix (dried herbs/twigs, coffee,... ) and flocked here and there both layers

Later on I also made a modulair toxic river for the city.

Nice thing about this way of basing things is that I can change the layout of the city each time

Hope this brief WIP was somewhat useful,
ciao,
Bobscene













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mattblackgod
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Big boss warlord dude!
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Very cool, thanks.

How do the mats roll up and store?
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mattblackgod
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Big boss warlord dude!
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Moved the topic to the correct board. :pipboy:
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Bobscene
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Thanks for the move Mattblackgod,

to answer your question.

The mat in the first picture, although I intended it to be flexible, was not really flex. So I store it standing up behind/between 'things'.

The 'Mordheim street mat', made out of wallpaper, I roll up with my other battle (rural) mats on a pvc tube (rainpipe cut at length) I fix those with some (clothing) elastic band.
Then I toss the roll somewhere under a sofa or cupboard so they get moved around a lot.
No real damage until now.
The smaller parts, house-bases, are stored in a box together with the houses.


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Great thanks.

I love your way of making moulds. I will have to try this some time. Sounds a good way to make replacement parts for models by press moulding milliput or green stuff into it.
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