New hills and single rock for Saga

The hills I made ten years ago were made out of styrofoam covered with plaster of paris.  Then they were painted green and covered with static grass.  Very cheap at less than a dollar a hill.  However over time a few bangs and dents have resulted in bits of plaster falling off and the hills started to look a bit ragged.  So it was time for some new more robust hills.

A bend in the hill

At the Fernvale Scenics stall at Cancon there was a new selection of hills made out of a flexible resin.  Think like the gel keyboard hand rests, but a bit firmer.  These were quite nice as they can be dropped and survive (unlike hard resin that will shatter if dropped).  Keeping things simple I planned to paint them green and flocked them.  

A bit dull in the end

The only issue was how much paint the hills absorbed.  The hills had a pocked surface to aid in dry brushing.  However all those little holes sucked up paint like nothing else.  I estimate I fully painted each hill three times and still only had a bare undercoated look at the end.  In the end I cut my losses and applied static grass all over.  This was done so the hills matched by terrain boards.  The end result is fine but does remind me a little of a lawn bowls green.  Too much constant uniform colour.  It probably would have been better to do more of a scatter mix across the hill.

A very pretty LOS blocker

This resin piece is also from Fernvale Scenics which was picked up for a few dollars.  It falls into the ubiquitous impassible terrain category that every gaming table needs.  For the paint scheme I went for a granite look.  This was done with a base coat of blue/grey followed by a blue wash.  Then the piece was lightened by dry brushing starting with blue/grey with the final dry brush colour being a peral white to add some sparkle.  The base was painted green and then flocked and had grass tufts and flowers applied.

Nothing too hard and complex but a simple piece to break up a table with and hide some troops behind in skirmish games.