newspaper: Re: [terrainmakers] Re: Opinions needed on best method to flock my road tiles.

Hi Mitch,

I am not using any flocking. I paint my gaming boards with a special
sand paint. I use the same paint for basing. Also the hills to put on
the boards and gullys ar painted that way. so is the bank of
commercially made streams. I am playing DBM , mostly biblical armies,
and painting Desert WW2 and Colonials. so all this fits quite well
with that paint. So you better don't give too much for my advice.
What I cannot see in the pictures too clearly is the three dimensional
structure, which I could see on the unflocked picture, so the two colour
piece looks to me nicer, assuming that there is more depth in the real
thing than in the photo. While the third colour may emphasise the
third dimension, for me it looks a bit unreal. Maybe just darken the
edge slightly is another option. But I think that's hard to judge before
trying.
Just my 2p

Jan

joedodgy schrieb:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> You've definately done the smart thing to keep the style of your
> terrain pieces the same as much as possible. I know when I recycled
> some parts of my first attempt when working on my second attempt the
> differend flock I used on each attempt made some pieces look a bit
> strange. (This counts as my 'third attempt' - hopefully last!)
>
> So, this time I'm putting a lot more thought into what type of flock
> I will use before I really get started, to make sure I have a
> consistant look.
>
> So if you are saying you would rather have these blank so that you
> could do your own thing - what would you do different? Would it just
> be the colour and type of flock used so that they matched your other
> terrain, or something more significantly different?
>
> Mitch
>
> AKA Joe Dodgy
>
> --- In terrainmakers@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:terrainmakers%40yahoogroups.com>, Jan Helmet <JanHelmet@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I think a two colour lay out is probably better. Especially if you
> > expect customers to modify it later. I personally would even prefer
> it
> > just plain. I have in the past bougt a couple of different
> commercial
> > rivers all unpainted and painted it matching with my other terrain
> and
> > my boards. I may not be the best terrainbuilder and painter, but
> > everything fits together stylewise it's normally nicer than having
> a
> > mixture of well done single pieces each in a different style.
> > Jan
> >
>
>