TERRAIN BOARD - movable scenic parts
I usually utilize a 1m x 1m board when I like to test some scenic components or imagine an event or a particular scene with vehicles and figures.
This time I wanted to see how well certain scenic elements fit with the basic landscape.
The starting point is the base for almost anything: I use some rigid transparent plastic sheets which I cut with an irregular pattern and I adapt it to the size of the item it supports, ie a soldier, a tree, a pile of cut trees, and so on. You may find the raw material very easily; it is usually the folder of a booklet. All the items pictured here can be moved easily in any part of the board and can not be detected immediately.
The key is that the plastic needs to be clean, without any shade of powder or dirty in order not to become evident and it can actually "disappear" melting itself with the surrounding terrain. It also needs to be a bit rigid otherwide the borders may bend up or detach itself from the item glued above whenever you pick it up and place it in a container to be stored or on the terrain.
From the pics shown here you may easily understand that there is a flaw in most of the scenic items but trees, bush, grass: the border of any item built up, such as a house, a fence, a stone wall, etc needs to give the impression to amalgamate with the land so better to glue some little stones, some grass of different colours.
