Coir mats for making crop fields?

[cram]

Been looking around for coir mats to make some crop fields. I thought it would be easy enough to find a suitable mat, but this is turning out not to be the case. The mats I have come across are to dark in colour. Can anybody please point me in the direction of a pale coir mat in the UK?

thanks Marc.

[Elk101]

Wilkinsons have them if there's one near you. Tesco also has them though they're about twice the price.

[Eric the Shed]

B&q value line....

Can't believe you are struggling to find these...just hunt around for best price they do vary

[Eric the Shed]

If too dark...lighten with drybrushing

[redeaston]

I think I got mine from Argos.

[Mitch K]

Mine came from a local "sell everything" farmers' store. It's a darkish colour, rather like old straw, and also fairly short (15-20mm?). Even without drybrushing, it looks OK to me.

[muncehead]

Sainsbury's in the homewares section.

[Sterling Moose]

Any pics of them in use chaps?

[pacarat]

I have bought some at Ikea, Home Depot, and at a "home improvement" type store in Kaiserslautern ...

I have seen two thicknesses. Roughly 1/2" and 1"...

[Mitch K]

Any pics of them in use chaps?

Will do. Be in a day or two, if that's OK?

[cram]

What hight would you say is best suited for 28mm and which for 15mm?

Maybe the mats I've looked at aren't to dark and its just me! But dry brushing them lighter is an interesting option that I'd never considered.

[Malamute]

Any pics of them in use chaps?

Here's mine. I picked it up at a hardware hops for a fiver or there abouts. It was big enough to make the field shown in the photo and some extra sections for future use. I just drybrushed the tips of it to lift the colour slightly.

[Captain Blood]

They always just look like doormats to me 

It's one of the few wargaming terrain orthodoxies that I just don't get. The idea that doormats look like crops... Must be in the eye of the beholder I guess... 

(Mind you, I do prefer doormat cereal fields to those cut-up bits of plastic mat... )

[Dolmot]

It's one of the few wargaming terrain orthodoxies that I just don't get. The idea that doormats look like crops...

I think it's just a matter of trade-off where the look is "close enough" or "obviously recognisable" for gaming, while durability, price and building time are top notch. How do the slightly better looking alternatives compare in those aspects? Most gamers are happy enough to get reasonably good stuff to fill their tables quickly and move on to modelling other pieces or painting their minis. Everyone's hobby time is limited, after all.

However, I try to add a little bit of disguise to mine.

[redeaston]

Here are some of mine. I agree with the above comment as well. I think they are a great trade off between effort and looking good. As you can see from the below I tend to base them up and cut paths etc through them.