Magnetic paper roads and foamboard contoured hills. Cohesive aesthetics?

[@JoeMcKeen]

Looks great and I will be adding some of your ideas to my current 3 foot by 3 foot setup!

[@legrambo]

Thank you, and a 3 x 3 is a great size table. Cheers, Lee.

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

Love me some DBN. good stuff.

[@legrambo]

DBN give a great game in a small space with plenty of strategic challenges. Lee.

[@MrPiotrowicz]

It looks better than some of the commercial products! Great idea. I tried something similar with teddy bear/fleece kind of material and covered it with texture paste. It is thicker than these roads but stick to the mat firmly due to that 'hairy' structure on the bottom.

[@legrambo]

Many thanks. I can see that your idea would also work well too. Would also be a great way of making textured fields? Cheers, Lee.

[@MrPiotrowicz]

@@legrambo Maybe. But what I see here looks better imo so you don't have to test this method. :) The fleece material is thicker so it stans out a bit more and sometimes I have to straighten it up under a cutting mat if it was laying bent for longer period of time. But I only did small road and plan on doing more. I was thinking about using something like a rubber mat. An idea taken from channel called Black Magic Craft.

[@norm977]

Thanks Lee for introducing me to the advantages of magnetic paper. I picked some up at Hobbycraft last week and I will be using it for some BUA bases and some fields. All good. Norm.

[@legrambo]

Cheers Norm, I hope it does the job for you. I have only used the Vallejo Earth texture on it, straight from the pot and it remains flexible and does not crack when flexed. I'm also planning fields :) All the best, Lee.

[@bruceschmidt3404]

Great ideas!

[@legrambo]

Thank you. Lee.

[@e-4airman124]

thank you

[@regwirth3004]

Nice ideas, thanks. As to fences, I just purchased some HO fencing and trimmed it down.

[@legrambo]

Thank you for the tip, I'll give that a try :) Cheers, Lee.

[@zargonfuture4046]

Its Featherstone chic 😁 the beat tables to play on. Lovely table

[@legrambo]

Thank you. I am of the generation that was inspired by Donald Featherstone and Terry Wise so it's the DIY look of my youth :) Cheers, Lee.

[@geoffbarker3644]

Looking good Lee 😉

[@legrambo]

Coming along nicely now Geoff :) Cheers, Lee.

[@roguetrooper5401]

Really coming together nicely supprised you have not just made your own picket fences by the way what part of kent are you in I am in the seaside disaster that is Margate hope you are somewhere better

[@legrambo]

Many thanks. I might try the 00 fence and trim it down a bit as suggested above, would save so much time. We're not that far apart, I'm in Medway, outskirts of Chatham so not that glamourous either :) I used to like Margate. Cheers, Lee.

[@MrMicky2111]

Hello Lee. Really nice table. Great idea using magnetic paper for the roads. May I ask what medium you used to texture the roads, to maintain the flexibility. Was it Builders Chauk. Thank you for the very interesting videos. Keep up the good work.

[@legrambo]

Hello MrMicky :) Thank you very much for the comment. I have used Vallejo Earth Texture (Brown Earth) for all of the groundwork on figure bases, terrain bases and the road and river sections. It's such a great product and covers really well even over the magnetic paper coating and is flexible enough not to crack. I find that a pot of this lasts me many months. It can be used straight from the pot or thinned with water if required. Hope this helps. Cheers, Lee.