Project Cornetto

Before I began work on my Cornetto project and having already been inspired by the Solo Wargamer, I started to spruce up terrain pieces I already had.

This was turning the café into a starbucks and adding details to the brownstone flats. I scribbled on graffiti using acrylic paint pens, which were perfect for graffiti in this scale. I was particularly pleased with how Mr Sparkle turned out.

I set up a quick table for Marvel Crisis to test out my buildings, but it was when everything was place down that I was even more keen to build the UK setting.

To hark back to the first post on the history of this project. I mentioned that I had built a faux fur mat 4×4. Here are some shots of the mat in progress and then with both 15mm and 28mm terrain over the top,

It worked well in both scales which is what encouraged me to make a 6×4 mat.

The process was relatively simple. The only issues to working with faux fur was keeping it somewhere it can remain flat for time to dry.

To start I would shave out the areas I wanted to become textured road. I would then shave about 15mm sized pathways to represent the gaps between fields. This served a double purpose of both being small foot paths, but also gaps to be filled with edges of fences that wouldn’t bounce around on the fur. One the fields were outlined, I used a mix of general acrylic paint from any craft store and a comb, to brush the paint into the fur staining it.

I used more selective greens through an airbrush to cover smaller fields and add variation colours to greens already present.

I used caulk mixed with brown paint to spread onto the areas of the road and paths. Pair of latex gloves and water made this spread easier.

I left it to cure for a bit before I went in with a tooth pick to create diverts and tracks in the dirt. I also pressed in sand to give a rougher texture.

Once fully cured, I hit the roads with a dark brown airbrush and followed up with stone and ushabiti bone dry brush. The mat made for a perfect 4x4ft rural zone. It came out better than hoped and looks great for both 28mm and 15mm.

I did add a couple of tufts and also spread a bit more grit along the sides of the paths. I dotted a few flowers here and there just to give a bit of variation to the ground scatter.

The mat rolls up and folds out neatly and I have had no issues with it and its still in use it today.

This will become my baseline for what I hoped to achieved with the 6×4 when I finally got around to it.