Standing crops - teddy fur Vs door mat

[Greystreak]

As the man says in the film Full Metal Jacket:

"Don't make it too obvious, but I want to see fur, and early morning dew." 

[Malamute]

I made this some years ago, I prefer it to Teddy bear fur. But neither are ideal.

[von Lucky]

I like the option of doormats where you take sections out where the empty sections have been treated to look like soil. The puzzle like pieces don't have to be retangular, either.

[Captain Blood]

I made this some years ago, I prefer it to Teddy bear fur. But neither are ideal.

To be fair, Nick, that looks extremely effective. But then you've gone to the time and trouble to put it into a scenic context that makes sense of the material, and plucking it to create the impression of an irregularly edged patch of cereal crops.

My objection is to the brutalist square of unimproved doormat slapped down on the tabletop with a 'there you go, that's a realistic cereal field' attitude.
Like I say, that just looks like a square of doormat to me.
But the material undoubtedly has scenic potential if you work with it.
Still, I guess that's true of most things in wargaming. As we know, plenty of people are perfectly happy with a bare table with a few irregularly shaped bits of brown or green cloth to stand for woods or hills. Different strokes I suppose. Not everyone has the time, interest or aptitude to make nice scenic terrain. Many people just don't care. To me, wargaming is an inherently visual hobby - it must be, because if there wasn't some obvious visual, aesthetic appeal to playing with model soldiers on model landscapes, presumably we'd all just be playing boardgames. But each to their own. I can't be fagged to have this argument yet again