Charlie's terrain boards (river boards with backdrop painting, July 19-20)

[Burgundavia]

The colours of that board are wonderful. I like how deep the river is.

[Codsticker]

Really superb work.

[Charlie_]

I finished four new river boards. Very pleased with how they turned out!

[Silent Invader]

They're really really good Charlie. I especially like the tree-lined one.

[AKULA]

Lovely work 

[MaleGriffin]

Excellent work! I'm torn between modular squares/rectangles and a cloth cover over individual features. For some reason, the price of insulation foam is double or triple what it was just a few years ago. The same with  faux fur. I look on Ebay, and it's a quarter the price in the UK.
Lovely terrain!

[Burgundavia]

Fantastic stuff. How are they to transport?

[Doug ex-em4]

Very pleased with how they turned out!

I should think you are - they are great….!👍

Doug

[Charlie_]

They're really really good Charlie. I especially like the tree-lined one.

I would have liked to put trees, or at least bushes and such, on the banks of all four of them - but of course every one I do like that is trickier to store, they cannot be stacked, so I've got to limit how many get the full tree treatment. I've got enough shelving to have perhaps 8 boards in total with fixed-down terrain features (trees, hedges, fences, and buildings). All others must be flat so they can be stacked under the table!

Fantastic stuff. How are they to transport?

I haven't transported them any further than from the workbench, to the table, to the shelving! They are solid and weighty. I'm not planning for them to ever really leave the garage to be honest. If they were going into the back of a car every weekend they might become an issue one day.

[Charlie_]

I've had a go at painting a backdrop - I dived right in with a canvas, some acrylic paints and a kitchen sponge.

Painting clouds is great fun!



This is very much work in progress - I can paint new layers over the top easily if I'm not quite happy with the shapes of the clouds. I wasn't quite sure about the composition, but after setting it up behind the terrain I am much more happy with it.

I've got another canvas, this won't be the only one I do.

Now I'm planning to paint some trees and such along the bottom. Just rough shapes of green foliage, nothing detailed Do you think I should do a hazy horizon line as well, a few inches from the bottom?

A quick mock-up in MS Paint of what I'm talking about. Any thoughts / advice from the artists out there?

[Burgundavia]

Check the backdrop books from Hodgson for inspiration

[Roo]

Loving all of this quality work, inspiration for similar project in plan.  Thanks

[painterman]

Charlie, that looks the business. The tree/horizon line really works.
Photos of your games are going to look great.
Simon

[has.been]

Good job on the clouds.

[fred]

Great work on the boards. And on the clouds - really adds to the overall look.

I like what you are attempting with the MS Paint mockup - my suggestion would be to mute the greens on the left a bit. And I assume when you paint them for real, you will mottle / blend the colours more from the rather mono-chrome?