Making My First Fabric Game & Battle Mat - Easy, cheap, fast, fun craft

Making My First Fabric Game & Battle Mat - Easy, cheap, fast, fun craft - grow painting & art skills

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Selrahc Games

Күн бұрын

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@looselycollected7505 8 ай бұрын

After you touched it, wasn't it all "felt"? I'll see myself out now. *ducks and runs*

@selrahcmoonandstar 8 ай бұрын

I wanted to work that joke in there but wasn't sure if it would confuse people lol

@alarin612 2 ай бұрын

Oh you are welcome here, sir! Puns are the embroidery in the fabric of life.

@dwightgrosso5481 8 ай бұрын

I have seen tutorials for battlemats that are much more involved and use messier products. This is simple and extremely effective. I can see lots of new and younger gamers doing this on a buget. Heck, who am I kidding,I am going to make one! Or two, or three....

@selrahcmoonandstar 8 ай бұрын

I have so many more that I want to make haha, every color and terrain type from wasteland to ruined city to ocean/sea/beach, even underdark

@TimLewallen 4 ай бұрын

Exactly. This is cheap and easy enough to have several ready to go for different environments.

@alarin612 2 ай бұрын

Felt has a useful quality in that it adheres to itself. You can take a big sheet of green, then cut strips of brown and blue and place them on the green for modular roads and rivers.

@selrahcmoonandstar 2 ай бұрын

That is a really interesting point that I hadn't considered!

@alarin612 2 ай бұрын

@@selrahcmoonandstar It doesn't look NEARLY as good as what you made. And it looks a little weird, with the water sitting a bit higher than the grass. But it does let you have a modular setup. For best results, glue the green sheet flat to a big board. ... which means yours is also more portable.

@cetx 2 ай бұрын

I would 100% buy rocks from you to support this amazing channel.

@selrahcmoonandstar 2 ай бұрын

That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me

@exequielfri1352 8 ай бұрын

Awesome result!

@selrahcmoonandstar 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@anarchistmugwump9137 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for this! All the other techniques seemed so daunting! I really love your videos. Did you try this technique with the other kind of felt? It doesn't seem like it would roll up as nicely as this one.

@selrahcmoonandstar 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, I’m glad it feels approachable! This my first try ever with the fleece, and since it worked so well I haven’t tried making one with the felt yet, and yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking too that it wouldn’t roll up nearly as well

@earlkriewall7251 8 ай бұрын

I can only imagine how much paint you had to use. Did the fleece absorb it readily or did it remain mostly at surface level? The end result looks really good!

@selrahcmoonandstar 8 ай бұрын

It actually didn't take that much paint! And I used the super cheap craft paint, so it was probably less than $1-2. I think it mostly stayed at the surface level, the watered down dark brown for the road didn't even bleed through. The texture of the fleece really holds onto paint well. And thank you :)

@earlkriewall7251 8 ай бұрын

I am surprised that it didn't bleed through. Thank you for the additional information.@@selrahcmoonandstar

@anarchistmugwump9137 16 күн бұрын

So I got some acrylic felt and attempted to make a kind of muddy look. Unfortunately, it turned out rather hideous. However, I made quite an important discovery about fabric battle mats after my mistake. They are WASHABLE. I think you'd need to avoid the mat finish as I didn't get around to that. I think if you avoid the mat finish, you could potentially have infinite designs on a fabric battle mat, including water features or maybe a bit of frost! I also think it could be interesting to make a modern or future city style battle mat out of grey felt. Roads would be a lot trickier, some experimenting with tape might be a good idea.

@stevenphilpott4294 3 ай бұрын

Came for the tutorials, stay for the humour

@selrahcmoonandstar 2 ай бұрын

Love to hear it haha

@rasmusolesen5307 8 ай бұрын

I bought goblingreen felt for the retro look. And it looks great. But the fabric is not very tabletop friendly since it grips everything you place on it which gets really annoying really fast.

@selrahcmoonandstar 8 ай бұрын

That's something I hadn't thought about, but after painting and spraying it the fleece isn't very grippy for miniatures at all. It is for terrain a little bit, but my terrain tends to have rougher textures on the base than my minis.