Finished a river for my Dark Ages games today.

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

I finished my river today. Should see the most use in SAGA, and I'll have to complete another 2' long section if I want it to be long enough to cross a 6x4 table as it's only 4' long at the moment. And of course, I'll need to make up a bridge and a ford for it as well, but I'm just glad to have the river itself finished!





Construction details and a few other thoughts here:

http://antipodeangaming.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/building-wargaming-river.html

[Legion1963]

Indeed. What a lovely river. I will be looking into the details of how you did this with great interest. Thanks for sharing. ;-)

[gamer Mac]

Lovely river
The buildings are outstanding as well, the church is particularly good, I may need to steal your design?

[Mason]

Lovely!
Great colouration.
 

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Lovely river
The buildings are outstanding as well, the church is particularly good, I may need to steal your design?

Thanks! Please do, and post some pictures when you're done! I made it with Hirst arts fieldstone molds and used balsa and cardboard for the room/tower.

[Dr. Zombie]

That is a great looking river. One day I hope to build one like that for myself.

[Charlie_]

Great work, that's a really clean, neat looking setup you've got!

Though are you tempted to flock the table to match the rest of the terrain pieces?

[cram]

Very very nice! 

[Gracchus Armisurplus]

Yeah, that looks spot.
Makes me want to re-do mine (which could do with a bit of smartening up).
Tell us how you did the water.

I sprayed the whole project black, then used a dark green spray to do the water, leaving a bit of black showing in the centre. Then I sprayed a sandy brown on the banks/shallows to simulate a sandy/muddy shore. Then I covered it in gloss varnish from a spray-can, about 8 coats I think. I just used the whole can. You can see how it came along here:

http://antipodeangaming.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/building-wargaming-river.html

Great work, that's a really clean, neat looking setup you've got!

Though are you tempted to flock the table to match the rest of the terrain pieces?

Yeah, the table surface was a bit of a debacle which you can read about here:

http://antipodeangaming.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/making-gaming-table-for-saga.html

The short version is that I had intended to use a grass mat to texture the surface, but screwed up the application and went for a painted version instead. I had been to-ing and fro-ing about whether to use a grass mat or a neoprene mat for SAGA since I already had a 3'x4' board in the shed for X Wing and could have laid the neoprene mat over the top for a quick and easy playing surface, but I decided in the end to go with a flocked surface since it would better match the models and terrain. So when I screwed that up, I went with plan B which was a flat playing surface, but because I was ranting and raving and carrying on due to the failed project I didn't want to order a neoprene mat and wait for it to be delivered (plus I already had the timber for the board at this point) so I just painted the surface on.

It has it's own pro's and con's. A totally flat playing surface allows terrain features to sit neatly onto the table, unlike a flocked table, and it doesn't shed at all like tables made from flock or static grass do. I know it will not develop patches where people rest their hands during games, or that if it does I can easily touch it up with some paint. But the downside is of course that you don't get that nice grassy effect

[dbsubashi]

That river is dead sexy!

[Andym]

That's a nice meandering river!

[Big Martin Back]

Nice result. I could do with one that wide. Mine were bought when we largely into 15mm gaming and look a bit more like streams now we're all mainly into 28mm.

[OSHIROmodels]

That turned out well 

cheers

James

[Elbows]

Beautiful river.  Excellent job.

[Legion1963]

Indeed. And those are pretty decent looking trees as well. All in all a very good setup and it would be a pleasure and privilege to game on that. ;-)