Though I'm not 100% satisfied, I am happy that I believe this technique will be very easy to redo as an actual desert scape. I also plan a black/grey urban scape. All of these should look pretty good!
Quick update today. I have been working on a gaming table, and will soon be also building some terrain. So far, I've set up an 8x4' MDF board (3/4" I think) on some saw horses. Should be able space for any of the games we play. I'd like to widen that 4' to 5 or 6, but that'll come later. In order to make the table useful for any game, I'm planning portable game mats made using canvas, latex caulking, sand, and kitty litter. Progress so far below! We start a few steps into the process. To begin, I laid out the canvas and applied brown latex caulk in roughly 1'x1' sections. After applying the caulk I sprinkled some sand and cat litter over the section, and pressed it in with a plastic bag. The two pictures above are after I followed that up with a coat of brown paint. Cheap craft acrylic stuff, nothing special. And the above 4 pictures are after a liberal dry brush with a mix of the base brown and a khaki shade called linen. It;s coming out a little too desert looking for me, but in person it is definitely brown. I also don't love the parts where the brush still had too much paint and you can tell it's a brush stroke. Either way, the next step will be to flock pretty large sections to make this a suitable Western Europe/generic grass type board.
Though I'm not 100% satisfied, I am happy that I believe this technique will be very easy to redo as an actual desert scape. I also plan a black/grey urban scape. All of these should look pretty good!
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