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RMD wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:36 am Anyone got any experience of S&A Scenics felt cloths? They're probably the cheapest around (by a very wide margin)...

I've seen them on the stand at shows. They aren't textured or multicoloured of course, but I've been tempted because they look decent quality for the price. I didn't buy because I couldn't get a single cloth which would be big enough. They are a bit old school.

Iain

i',m always intending to buy one and keep forgetting. The beige one works matches my arid/scrub basing pretty well. I was thinking i would get one and then break up the single colour it with spray paints. Like EB did but without the mess.

goat major wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:27 am Like EB did but without wearing a blindfold.

FTFY.

I am told that spray bottles from the gardening shop with dilute acrylic paint in it. When it dries, use a hort iron with butchers paper between the iron and the blanket.

Thanks for all the input. I decided to go with a Cigar Box Battle Mats one. Grassland 2 is the one I went with, from Northstar Miniatures

I have a brown/beige one which I used for desert. Plain felt and so a bit old school and they did an 8' by 4' but that was last century I believe. I haven't used it for years as I sprayed an dyed up an old white sheet to break up the background.
I am going to look at Tiny Wargames offerings this weekend at a show. I like the look on the web but I've been disappointed by the actual colour when buying from other manufacturers.

Played a game at Tonbridge on LT's rubber backed cloth (arid from Tiny Wargames). Print excellent but not so good over hills. I saw samples on their stand, went mad and ordered an 'arid' and a 'grass' on cloth. Arrived yesterday through the snow and I am very pleased with them.

I quite fancy the fields

http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7002

My Cigar Box Battle mat arrived on the weekend. Very happy with the quality!

I made my own from faux fur. It's about 10' x 5'. I was able to buy the end of a roll from a wholesaler vaguely near Manchester. Cost was about £30. The model railway folks, who use faux fur to makes grass land, chose a fur called Wolf but I thought it was too coarse and when I saw 'Pampas' in the warehouse racks I knew that would be perfect for what I had in mind.

It taken ages and ages to turn it into reasonable looking grass but I got there in the end. I found the best way to colour it was with household emulsion watered down and mixed. This was then applied by gently rubbing it into the fur with my fingers. If the fur gets wet it's disaster.

Faux fur is more expensive than fur fabric but the results are much more realistic.