Cobblestone

[Cory]

I've been looking for a durable cobblestone material for a while, and now find myself needing a 4'x4' board in the next couple of weeks, so I finally went forward with some basketball fabric from the local fabric store.


Painted a scrap at lunch, then wadded it up and threw it around my office for twenty minutes. Stands up well, paint isn't flaking and lays flat with a little heat from the hairdryer. Should therefore stand up to traveling and convention play far better than the wallpaper did.

[Skrapwelder]

Ok, that's great. Is this actual basketball material or something make to look and feel like a basketball?

I'll have to check the fabric store

[alone_withmyaxe]

That is pretty awesome, we like!
 

[Cory]

Seems to be the same outer layer of plastic material as a basketball on a very fine cloth backing. Not cheap at $22 a yard for a 54" wide bolt, but with a 40% off coupon that means I can do an entire 4x8 for less than $40.

[marko.oja]

Looks quite good - maybe I'll visit the nearby fabric store during lunchbreak. I do doubt that I'd find anything like it though, I never seem to find anything useful there...

Marko

[Hammers]

Ruddy clever, that.

[Gluteus Maximus]

I'm impressed! It looks very good and the "cobbles" are random without looking unrealistic.

Of course, as is usual with this sort of thing, it won't be available in the UK   

[answer_is_42]

This is a very good idea indeed.

Of course, as is usual with this sort of thing, it won't be available in the UK   

Would buying a cheap basketball and cutting it up work? Or would the curves make it too difficult to glue flat?

[Cheeky Monkey]

that is extremely clever - never would have thought that a fabric store would have something like that. I'm going to have to do some checking around.

[Sangennaru]

basketball fabric... clever! 

[Gluteus Maximus]

This is a very good idea indeed.
Would buying a cheap basketball and cutting it up work? Or would the curves make it too difficult to glue flat?

Sadly I don't think it would be possible to lay it out flat enough in large enough sections to be useful.

[alone_withmyaxe]

This thread has got me thinking that I need to go check out my local fabric shop and see what is about. A proper ingenious solution to a problem.

It also got me thinking, that maybe doll house shops may have texture materials that can be used in the same way, the only issue is scale as dolls houses are usually 1/12th or 1/24th. Still worth a gander me thinks...

[Gluteus Maximus]

This thread has got me thinking that I need to go check out my local fabric shop and see what is about. A proper ingenious solution to a problem.

It also got me thinking, that maybe doll house shops may have texture materials that can be used in the same way, the only issue is scale as dolls houses are usually 1/12th or 1/24th. Still worth a gander me thinks...

Good man! Please keep us informed as to any interesting finds