Tuesday 19 June 2012

On the boards again....

I finally found some time and a weather window to try some new combinations of colours for the new terrain boards. I selected three base colours....


and then painted a series of combinations of greens (B&Q's Woodland Fern 1,2,3) in a variety of techniques, to try and get what I considered the best finish on the boards. However, none of the combinations seemed to work completely to my satisfaction. In the end I decided on the Dark Truffle (middle board above), and a combination of the Woodland Greens to achieve what I think, is a very good finish. I also used the other two browns to build up the colour on the hills.


So this is how the new boards should look (the brighter green board is the first colour scheme I used and I have included this as a comparison). Once I have some of the new town, road and river sections, I will put together a small section of terrain so you can get some idea of the new look...

Also I am finally planning to run a test game in August and that will include new Terrain pictures, as well as the newly based units (which aim to blend in with this terrain).