Bushido Game board

The board is made 2 by 2 foot (or 60 by 60 cm to be exact, this allow me to get more board out of the same board.)
I build a skeleton underneath. There will be pu a lot of glue on this. I don’t want it warping on me.
Next some cheap styrofoam to create some depth. Both to add some interest in on the board, but mostly as I’m planning a small pond with a bridge and some koi carps

While the glue dried I used my Proxxon hot wire cutter to crate the tiling for the shrine and a stairs. The tiling would be bigger than the Proxxon allowed, so I created for pieces.
When I had the correct shapes, I started drawing the tiles/stones with a dull pencil. This styrodur holds detail far better than styrofoam and does not show any small ball structure.. Happy with the details, I rolled up some aluminum foil and rolled/dabbed until I had some nice structure.

After gluing  this into place, it was time to smooth things out.
I made a mixture of wall filler and paper pulp. This paper pulp is toilert paper that had been shredded in water with a blender, than dried in th oven. A technique I learned from Lukesaps on youtube. It bulks out the wall filler quite a bit. Making it during the great TP-scare of 2020 felt a bit weird.
Adding stones I got from my neighbor garden (with permission, off course) and two bags of aqarium gravel I added boulder and such. I simply pushed this in the mixture. Not as solid as it needs to be, but it will receive a layer of pva at a later stage.
Using a wet finger I smoothed this out and let it to dry. This takes a while