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Desert Terrain Mat - matthiasstein - 01-10-2018 I built some Agyptian Terrain for an upcoming campaign of Blades and Heroes from both Greenstuff World and Hirst Arts blocks Now I need some ground to place them on.  What I wanted to do for quite some time is a flexible gaming mat. I watched plenty of YouTube videaos on the topic, but the recently published video by the Terrain Tutor was the tip on the dare to give it a try. Here are the components: As fabric, I use painter fleece, the one I choose has a bottom of plastic sheeting, which should help keeping the acrylic and the colour on the fleece. I pinned the fleece to the board with pins. Then added one thin layer of acrylic. This is how the mat looked after a second layer of acrylic. It took me about 1.5 tubes. I then applied thinned PVA glue (1:1) and sprinkled on two grains of sand. Here is the first learning: When applying white PVA onto a white surface, tint it with something. I went with the reflection of light, and thought I got everything coated - when I tapped off the excess sand, there were some quite visible spare patches. I touched them up, but they are visible now as they are a bit higher than the rest... After sealing the sand in with watered down PVA (1:6 + washing-up liquid) and letting this coat dry thoroughly, I stippled on a first coat of paint. RE: Desert Terrain Mat - omgitsduane - 01-11-2018 Really nice work here. RE: Desert Terrain Mat - matthiasstein - 01-15-2018 Thank you A second coat gave a much better coverage. I then used the same sand colour as for the obelisks and statues. Then the whole board got a drybrush of white. I used the same flock I already applied to the miniature's bases, basecoating with the dark one and sprinkling on highlights with the light one. The mat after the flocking: I then used the bottom of the board as a guide for cutting the mat. This meant that the parts folded over the sides remained. Those I painted with the base ochre brown, which gives me a nice frame. Here is the mat with some terrain on and my Agyptians scouring the area for Richards pesky Greeks. Here is the mat rolled up. Project done RE: Desert Terrain Mat - Munin - 01-17-2018 Very nice!