Nev's Wargaming

Just a quick update this week, to demonstrate that things are moving along, if a bit slower than I would like. No completed projects recently, but I have been following tutorials on how to make fairly realistic looking trees, the project is taking longer than I anticipated. After injuring myself with my glue gun on numerous occasions the project is moving along now. I am rather impressed with how effective the clump foliage looks on the armatures. 'Growing' trees on the desk This week a new piece of Faux Fur Fabric arrived, a darker brown than before and shorter. I am hoping that it will turn out better than the previous one, I just need to find better coloured paints than I used before, this may be rather tricky considering the Corvid-19 lockdown. I will also have to find time to create the next mat between the building and painting of 300+ Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. New dark brown Faux Fur Fabric Thats about it for this week, not a lot going on and only slow...

Rival Anglo-Saxon forces clash a grassy plain by some ancient stones. After some careful consideration I decided that the Ashdown project required a new grass mat. The grass mats I have are produced by Citadel Miniatures and are good however they do not conjure images early medieval Wessex. Some time ago I had discovered that some wargamers make grass mats out of Faux Fur fabric. These mats look amazing and the Ashdown project appeared to be a perfect opportunity to try it out. I watched a few tutorials on Youtube and read a few blogs to learn how to make a faux fabric grass mat. The Red Beard Baron and Terrain Made Easy are the two best youtube channels for faux fur grass tutorials. My biggest concern was sourcing the supplies I needed to make the mat, and with coronavirus spreading across the globe I felt time was short, so with a recommendation in Terrain Made Easy 's tutorial, due to both of us being in the UK I ordered (with help form my wife, who knows about fabric...