First ever gaming board build
Sculpting, painting and grouting
Now I have my basic shape sorted it’s time to fill in the gaps and smooth out the slopes, I wanted to use sculptamould for this however I couldn’t get hold of any quickly enough (I’d left it quite late to order and I’m impatient). Therefore I found a tutorial and made my own sculptamould by cutting up 6 toilet rolls and soaking them in warm water. I then blended the mixture until all the paper was shredded, dried the paper in the oven and mixed it 50/50 with casting plaster.
To paint the rocks I used the leopard spotting technique, the colours I used were yellow ochre, burnt umber and carbon black followed by a drybrush of ash grey.
To get the right texture and colour for the ground covering I painted the surface with a mixture of 3:1 water and pva glue and then sieved brown tile grout over the whole landscape. I also sprayed the tile grout with the same pva mixture just for good measure. The tile grout gave the perfect texture and colour and gave a solid surface to from. The final thing to do is to put gravel over the river bed, I struggled to find gravel I liked then I was randomly walking through our local park and found this particular gravel covering the local bmx track!
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