Let's Make - Cheap & Easy Farm & Crop Fields Scatter Terrain
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In this Let's Make, we continue our countryside scenic series with simple scatter fields, from simple earth ploughed fields, to crop fields and vegetable patches to enhance your wargaming table. As always, we'll cover a load of different techniques and materials so you can pick and choose to create the farm fields you want for your wargame wether its 28mm or scaled down to 15mm.
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My local carpet shot has my picture up on the wall with a "Do not give this man samples" bit underneath it.
Oh well. Behold my fields, lol.
Wear a COVID mask and they are screwed
It's 2022 now and my son is only 1 year but looking at your videos. So when he turns 10 and I can help him with his school projects. So don't delete your videos.. 👏🤜🙏🛐🤳🕛♥
The wizard at work, he is the man. Thanks again.
The field where the rows go length wise is correct. The wide ones require too much turning around at the end of the furrow and waste time and gas. Some crops do prefer north south orientation.
Cheers bud
I'm a crafter and I'm LOVING your videos
when using the template on the filler for the farm field, if you spread the filler out first and dampen it the template for the furrows will pull through the filler easier and better.
omg I could listen to your voice forever!
Love your personality! You make me want to build one!
Great one! you could use some filler to smothen up the edges from the mat as well.
Yep, that'd work bud
Very nice fields Mel.
These would be good for just about any game period and or scale. You could even use these ideas for SciFi games with fields of alien crops.
You could even make a field with the crops in the middle of the field a different colour and type from the ones round the edge. For where the farmer is growing some special crops.
Cheers buddy, lot's of possibilities, looking forward to doing the big build for this series ;-)
I’m a bit late to the party but at the start I thought Jesus these terrains are gonna look like crap cause iv seen some corners cut using carpet bits like this before but dam the end product was gold and you even did them fast as hell
Depending on how realistic and how large you want your piece to be, I'd probably make the base quite a bit larger than the texture you're applying. Then I'd use the filler to smooth out from the edge of the texture to the edge of the base, blending the filler in a bit over the texture, so it looks more like the ruts are dug into the ground rather than sticking up form it. The corduroy method doesn't really need it with how flat the fabric is, but for the carpet methods, I'd definitely do more edge blending.
Yep, with you on that bud
you need to stop these tutorials mate
I'm spending more time watching your vids than painting lol
great work as always :)
You're gonna be up the creak when we get back to two vids a week lol :-D
Do what I do and make terrain/paint while watching these =)
why not watch while painting ?
Lol, I paint when I'm not watching. XD
Mel as usual great video, they all turned out great, again I can use this on my farm diorama, big thanks.
That farm diorama is going to look great mate
Hey mate! You should make a tutorial on railroads. But I know you probably cant due to the tutorials being what people pay you to make. But Its just a suggestion. Dont stop what your doing! I love it! Have a great day!
I'm more into my wargaming tbh ;-)
TheTerrainTutor No mate I mean railroads for war gaming like umm. Flames of war.
I'm pretty sure you can get cake decorating tools that look like that serrated piece of card, and many other profiles too. Imo it gave the most realistic-looking field because of the small irregularities. Sculpting in plaster with cake decorating tools could be an interesting hobby 🤔
What I'd do different is NOT glueing it down. Fields where I live tend not to be perfectly flat so mine would roll over dense foam like the hills here. I also have to say this: using the dried herbs is awesome! It looks so easy to use, affordable, and easy to find.
Some fantastic end results, nice video as always
Thanks mate
Those plastic cards can be called multiple things. Like spackel knife. That is the most commonly what it is
What a fantastic tutorial. Beautiful production! Where can you get expanded PVC sheet scheaply
Very lovely stuff, I'm definitly going to give this a go for my 15mm Tank game :-)
Oh, what's that like?
It's a really great game, and cheap because in the starterset you gat 1 Panther, 2 Shermans, a load of bits to make either a Jagdpanther and 75 or 76 mm Shermans, flat card terrein and tokens and dice, and a rulebook.
It's basically World of Tanks with miniatures and dead easy to play.
My son loves it too.
Oh, and it contains a wealth of statcards for the British, Russians, Americans and the Germans, I'll add the link :-)
tanks.gf9games.com/
Patrick Lefevre
I'll have to check it out bud
Please do, they've got free rules now.
My son plays it too, we both bought the starterset and we simply swapped tanks: I took the Panther and he the Shermans.
The statcards changed hands too.
I've got a .... 'sizeable' German tank force now :-p
You should do a corn field
Crop fields are coming mate
Another Great video Sir!
Cheers buddy
These are fantastic. Thanks for sharing :P
No worries mate :-)
He, TerrainTutor
I like your videos and I learned a lot about scenery. Im a Warhammer beginner and I dont know where to begin with scenery. I dont have flock and that sort of things. What should I do to begin with?
Objectives, small scatter pieces based in the same way as your army mate
thanks for the tips
The wish app has flock for pretty cheap if you're on a budget/don't wanna feel too bad if you mess up
Hey, there's a few tutorials that work. Check out DMScotty's tutorial as well as tutorials from terrain tutor. Both seem to work well. Check out both and pick and choose.
Damn that's clever 👍🏻😁 Hello from your newest subscriber
Can I use thin plywood to stick things to
These are great, in the process of making them, however I must be doing something wrong. Using 5mm Foamboard, and not getting any warping per say, but they arent exactly dead flat to table. Any tips to get them flat? Using the filler technique. Thanks
Depends on how they're not sitting flat mate
Sorry abit vague, certain sides are flat others have a very slight lift. Im using parcel tape on back of MDF for more rigidity and water down/paint/pva - just abit perplexed as to why they arent dead centre flat to the table. Thanks for the help Mel.
That weird, give them a gentle bend bud
Yup sorted, thanks mate
gjk
what is epvc? any idea what woudl be the equivalent in the usa?
Expanded PVC Rigid Foamboard
If you hold his hands could he still talk ?
you say more 😆
Here it is, March of 2019, and I'm trying to help my 14 year old create a diorama of a cotton plantation for school. I searched youtube for a little assistance, and found this video. AWESOME! You just helped me create almost the complete diorama. Cotton furrows and all. Thank you oh so very much for posting this. You just baled (pun intended - bailed) me out completely in getting this accomplished.
Now it's March 2020!,
I’m also doing a diorama over a cotton plantation but it’s just me doing it so I’d like to know what the green stuff he is using in 21:40 is
Now it's March, 2024, just doing some of these for Bolt Action.
Greetings from Spain folks!
You know, there's a cheap and easy starting point as well.
Get some cardboard with a corrugation size that you like. Cut it to the shape you want the field to be (use the corrugation as a guide for where to start and end), then peel the corrugation cladding off one side and glue it to a base using the other side. Then use a ring of hot glue, filler, or air dry clay to work the edges and cover the end of the corrugation.
Then coat the cardboard with a thin layer of pva and dust the thing with a fine sand. Seal it in after it dries, then prime and paint like you've shown.
As a side note, if you want some cabbage or lettuce for your fields, look at the paper roses in the craft stores, a bit of green paint (Or purple if you want the red cabbage) and you've got some pretty good looking produce for your fields.
I've always found large pieces of cardboard to be sensitive to humidity/moisture but if it works for you bud, fill your boots mate
The moisture isn't really a problem since you're sealing it.
AzraelThanatos what was the green stuff he used in part 21:40
Cardboard is what I use.
@@TheTerrainTutor it’s called a bench scraper in the cooking industry that’s what I used as I had one
What a "garden" of delights Mel. This work is right in your "field" of expertise. That cordoroy looks good for 10mm. (That's not a pun, three in a "row" would be silly.)
Really? That was bad man! - Cheers! ;-D
He's outstanding in his field. Like an award-winning scarecrow. lol
Good of you to 'plough' in with the 'dig' about his work lads 😉
For some time I've had an evil plan. I bought a 6-root roll of dark brown ribbed carpet. I've cut some of it up to form fields. The evil plan is to leave the carpet unbased but to have a collection of sabot bases that exactly fit them. Some would be edged in stone wall, some in rail fences, some in hedges, some in bank and ditch, etc. Then I could transfer the field from enclosure to enclosure, so that the fields would look right for the era and geographic location of the battle field. The next phase would see different states of field, freshly ploughed, young growth, mid-growth, ready to harvest and finally crop stubble. Perhaps I'd even go with some frosted with snow and deep in snow. That way the fields would match the season of the battle. Clearly I am in need of counselling for my delusions of grandeur.
That's smart man, reall smart!
You need to practice your evil laugh then 😉
I believe your homemade scraper/corrugated row maker is similar to a tile trowel, which has notched edges for the purpose of creating air gaps to help the mastic squish down and the tile to adhere better to the substrate.
No scarecrow? What kind of farmer doesn't have a scarecrow?
Outstanding work! Well done!
The carpet samples are the same here in the USA, and you can get paint samples at paint stores too. The "scrapper" is called a comb if you're painting and for tile setting it's called a notched trowel. I like you irregular rows for the crops. I think it looks more authentic than if they were perfect.
Cheers buddy, that answers a lot
A cheap tip for some maize like grass texture get some coloured sand form your local handy hobby craft
25:04 "...Its just *flocking* guys."
25:31 "...Yeh thats gettin' *flocked* isnt it?"
just a quick tip, these mats and floortiles are best cut on the backside, guide the knife with a piece of wood, cut the backing a few times and you can easily and neatly break the backing and then cut the fabric topping saving you quite some time. hope this helps. love your videos.
also works fine on coconut mats.
I game in 10mm, and used 'Jumbo Cord'. I bleached it first (it was black, it turned golden brown...) then 'dyed' it with watered down cheap acrylic brown. I didn't base it though - I cut it into irregular but vaguely rectangular shapes. I'm thinking basing might be a nice idea, allow me to do a bit of edging & flocking. I wish I could find something rigid but thin to base on though. At 10mm scale, a 3mm thick base is quite a platform!
Never heard of jumbo cord, got a link bud?
It's just corduroy with bigger ridges. There's a load of it on edBay...
WulfCorbett ah right mate
At 10mm is just more important to have your edges bevelled smoothly
It’s called an Artex Comb for doing the fan pattern, usually on ceilings.
I wish you would have commented on which ones are best suited for the scale if your train layout. N, HO and the like. Makes me wonder what materials can be laid down to make concrete is asphalt look.
soz mate, train layouts are my thing, so I wouldn't know
the one made of filler was the best
Found that same red mat at B&M recently - I've got LOTS of fields to make now! ;)
Will the primer technique work with cotton batting?
Not sure, give it a test go
I realize your not a farmer but your furrows are going the wrong direction. Your way has the farmer doing a lot of turning around at the end of the furrow wasting time and fuel.
Handy to know, so what should they look like mate?
So they want longer rows and less of them to save money and time? It's things like this that you see Hollywood get wrong because the designers and prop guys aren't educated in the fields they're mimicking.
you can find the carpet tiles here in the states. one of my local game stores used them on one of their modular table sets but not as fields only
Nice, I did wonder
Brilliant - thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
awesome ! great work. Check out boulder creek. another ausi mate does well. not as amusing tho. lol
Try using acrylic it works well for me
I’m pretty new to modelling, these easy tutorials are fab. Many thanks.
Big T
Great vid as always, I made some fields, but these techniques would have helped to know how to use the carpet I used.
The only suggestion would be to 'not' make the fields not quite so square. I have mine roughly square overall but the off cuts of the carpet are triangular-ish, oblong, some have angled sides etc. It means that I end up with an irregular patchwork of mini-fields and looks quite realistic.
Thanks for the vid 👍🏻👍🏻
I've always liked diorama, but never played warhammer of the sorts, anyway, I came by your channel and have been watching your videos for the past month. Who knows, maybe one day I will give a crack on a terrain.
Cut from the backside, way easier 😸 hot glue and rubber don't bond? It's called a glue comb? Cheese grater? Coffeemill. PVA rules 😹 if you're going to use this "large" clumps of foliage, what's the use of the base relief in the first place? Might have used a flat sheet as well to start with? Ad a few "rocks" to break up the monotony? Great vid, 👍👍👍👍👍 guys AND gals 😾 Subscribed 😸
try flipping the carpet backing side up and slice it through, then follow with scissors. it works really well, I got this tip from a friend who installed carpet college for extra money.
Really impressive ... Simple and yet so detaljeret
You'r techniques are so simple but it make's you'r terrain looking so advanced.
Really nice job, my favorite has to be the velvet piece ...just so cool
Thanks for showing and keep up the good work.
Thanks bud! :-D
You talk to much. When it's that simple the video could be done in 10 minutes and wouldn't take more than half an hour. Very nice what you're doing and showing👍, bud less talking for me would be ok.
Greetings from the Čech Republic 🇨🇿
This is incredible, thanks for sharing!
oh wow, another thomas youtuber
now i dont feel alone
Thomas T'n'P Productions nice great
The floor tiles aren't a UK thing. Every crappy chain home improvement store I've been in in the Northeastern US and Southeastern Qubec has them somewhere. Plus you can find a huge selection on Amazon. As far as adhesive for the carpet tile and welcome mat fragments check in the same aisle in the home improvement store where you find the carpet tiles and there'll be an adhesive meant to use with the tiles. You can buy a five gallon bucket of the stuff but there's also a quart size which will last you about forever making terrain for your games. That stuff will hold the carpet tile to anything forever.
His content is good but I have to watch it in increments because he says "ya" every 5 words and it's freaking distracting.
Verbal Tic buddy
@@TheTerrainTutor It's ok. It's getting easier. Great content, by the way. Subscribing now.
@@ussearchandrecovery7518 No, thank you buddy!!!!! ;-)
Lovely build, just not a fan of your grass work it usually looks too 90s GW, too artificial. I mean it is a valid style and I get why people like it, but if you go through the trouble and make terrain that is so detailed, I'd also do the grass on the same level of detail.
For a veggie patch miniature paper roses painted green make great cabbages.
I'll check them out, thanks for the heads up mate
Robert Chisholm My Cabbages!!
The one you made from scratch actually turned out to be my favorite. At first I was not as interested but with each stage it ascended above all the others.
Thanks for doing a lot of legwork to help eliminate the trial and error for us, it's evident the amount of previous projects that informed this. A lot of great ideas!
I recently took a look at how many hedges, fields, roads and towns I would have to create to play 6mm games in the bocage of Normandy. This vid and several others have given me enough ideas to be able to get on with it without breaking the bank. Thanks! (In case anyone was curious, just looking at google imagery there are up to around 60 individual fields, about 2-3 miles of road, usually a small village and 2-3 farmsteads PER SQUARE MILE in the dense bocage of France. And of course most of those fields and roads are bordered by high, irregular hedges. (Total perimeter of 30 fields each 300 x 300 meters ( a reasonably dense Normandy countryside) is 22.5 miles of hedge.)
That's a lot of fields!!!
hi thanks very much great video. where do you get you pvc bases from that you put the fields on thanks
very cool. Thx for this tipps. I want to make some fields for 15 mm. This helps immediatly (-:
How aboutr a freeway with overpass and on-off ramps, guard rails...etc.
Are there any UK suppliers of Mini Natur? Can only find Germanor Italian supplies and want to try and get some.
Didn't see it below -- though I'm coming to this late and by no means read through all the posts -- it's called a "Notched Trowel." It's mostly used for tile work. (I'm a fifth generation mason)
Cheers!
greetings ,I am from Brazil my name is Alberto. Do you have a tutorial about how to make dry soy ?
Thank you very much !!
I haven't as yet mate, sorry
Inspirational as always Mel, love what you do mate :) Worth every penny of becoming a patron.
Thanks mate and thanks for your support!
Hey Mel quick question for you, what is your ratio for watering down house paint? I’ll be using the same condiment squirting containers btw. And using premium latex house paint of course.
I have no ratio, I just add water till it matches the consistency of model paint mate, every brand has a different consistency so there's no set ratio.
Thanks Mel, hope to be able to attend your next live session!
Forgot to mention, a guy at my local store made crops with corduroy from an old pair of pants.
Real nice and easy
Plastering trowel with teeth
Great tutorial! Love your way of showing multiple ways for people with different budgets and/or styled boards.
I'm thinking of doing some farm fields for my Warhammer Fantasy Battles board and I have a question about the durability of some of these, mainly the one with large foliage and the one with vine strips and tufts:
Do they get easily damaged over time if you place large blocks of units on top of them? I'm afraid of making anything grow on the fields because I don't want to see all of the plants just flatten or fall off when in more or less pressure depending on the size of the unit. Should I just stick with the ones that have nothing growing on them except maybe a bit of flock?
OK, yes but the trick is to use the clump foliage as a buffer, so give it an extra soak of watered down pva, that'll make it tough as boots mate, you'll be able rest a resin dragon on them ;-)
Love the enthusiasm. Thanks for the ideas and tutorial.
Oh yes!, i'm a modeltractor collector in scale 1:32 and i like to make dioramas in my modeltractorclub and you have helped my a lot by building my dioramas
(sorry for my english, coming from Denmark)
Awesome, glad they've helped mate
not gone through all the comments , so dont know if anyone else has mentioned this, but try a tube of "builders caulk" for the edges of the fields, cheap as chips.
If in USA, get painter's caulk, not builder's. It takes to paint a lot better. Builder's caulk can shed paint when it flexes. Not a huge issue, but a third less the price for painter's caulk and it can potentially make your life easier. It doesn't have silicone, so it doesn't seal as well (aka, won't seal a roof gutter). But the flexing silicone is what makes builder's caulk shed paint and cost more.
Wow! this video is super helpful. I'm only just getting into miniatures, and this video was really informative. Thank you for doing examples with different materials and techniques. It's made it a lot easier for me to decide what I'm going to do.
All your videos are amazing, and I adore your work. Thank you for making these tutorials, they're really helpful!
Here to help bud
I'm sure this was answered, but what brand is your clump foliage? i like the spongy branch look it has, looks great! i subbed
It's homemade mate, tutorial in the foliage playlist
I have a project assigned. It is to model terrain of a certain area, since it is a grassland and tree, this video is helpful. 😁
What size figures would these be more compatible with? I'm going to use this for a WW2 diorama and I use 1:32
Depends on the material mate, you could use the various ones in this tutorial for anything from 1:300 to 1:32
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Crop fields are coming mate!
thanks for this video! im planning to make some kind of diorama for my 1 35 tanks, and im having trouble coming up with a way to make terrain, but these vids have helped a treat! do you have any way of making hedges?
thanks, great vid by the way.
Check the foliage playlist mate, there's a hedges overview of a load of different ways in there.
I enjoyed this mainly because this is not my field. 😂 BRAVO to you🏆
Thank you so much for this video. I tried it, and it looks great! Quick and easy.......
I've been thinking a bit about how to make rice paddies/fields. I'd really like to see your thoughts on how to make them.
I'm thinking grass tufts in resin but I need to have a play ;-)
wow stumbled across you and damn me i fit that carpet all the time an throw all the off cuts in the skip never thought of using it like this awesome
Win!
Hey Mel. I started watching this video after the crater tutorial. Any way to do a tutorial for a crashed plane and how to do the terrain for that ? Thanks again for the great videos!!!
Just drag the crater out so it looks like a comet mate
Oh, I didn't like the corduroy until you added the edge. Good job!
It's always the finishing touches ;-)
Just wondering, have you ever considered doing a tutorial on making fir trees, Mel? I think that it would make a marvellous 'lets make'...
It's on the list mate
these would look really cool with some bits of fencing or a scarecrow tossed in there for more of a human element. Would add some more height/dimension too, would make an excellent border to help mask the step up you were talking about. Really love it.
Saving that for the end of level boss mate
I work for a carpet company, so get tons of this kinda stuff. thanks for the tips on dressing it up!!
Your board is gonna be beautiful!
Hi Mel
Few questions as not long watched your review on pvc foamboards.
First how thick is the bases you are using on the fields?
You use pvc glue on the edges, now on your review you said it wasn't the best bondage but yet you used it on the field edges... is this not as problem for grit and foilage cllumps and so on ?
Lastly and more importantly how do you get such a lovely bevillied edge on the bases?
I'm a 6mm player and would love to try out your videos so would really appreciate your answers as your one of the top tutours on TH-cam.
3mm, pva ain't the best glue but it still works bud. I bevel them with blade matey
I really love your videos. The corduroy seems to fit the HO scale better than the carpet squares. I'd use it for a larger scale. Keep 'em comin' mate. Love your ideas.
Think you're right on that, cheers bud!
Ey! Always nice to see your videos pop up in my feed.
Edit: You talked about before trying to get some deals with some shops selling wargaming stuff, is that something you managed to get through? I've been thinking about those big green cutting and measuring mats you've got. So if you got any deals that could sort of be my way of helping out out since I'm not currently a backer. Have a nice day everyone.
It happens occasionally but it's mainly wargames/terrain companies rather than general craft supplies
TheTerrainTutor Ah I see, thanks for responding though:)
Mel. i like the veggie patch design :). i have issue with clump foliage coming off the my fields (i use Pva to attach and spray matte vanish to seal.) i am using a door mat type of design simular to the red on you have. any tip on improving it longevity? right now i am just using some spray adheasive and flock to make it look like new growth.
Hot glue, silicone, latex glue, mod podge, any of them will do mate
Does anyone know where I can get the vine strips used at 23:00? Dont know what to search for.