Scatter Terrain

To improve the spectacle of our games, I have been making some scatter terrain pieces, chiefly using cork bits glued to a base, some sand and gravel, painting the bases to match my mats, and then adding tufts.

Recently I decided to make some bushes bases, and bought some ready-made tufts - the ones with yellow flowers in the photo above. On advice of Nowfel, I decided to make some more unruly shrubbery, but was unable to settle on a quick and simple method despite searching on Youtube, until I found this:

I had bought a pack of these new scouring pads to use, and while washing my dishes one day I realised that the colour of the pad meant I could use them as the 'branches' of my bushes without needing to paint them. So I tore one up, shaped and trimmed the pieces tot he shape I wanted, hot-glued them to a base, painted them with diluted PVA, and scattered fine foam on them. I am quite pleased with the results.

I also made some 'rough ground' terrain pieces for my arid mat, which will serve both as scatter terrain, as well as indicators for Rough Ground grids in the grid-based wargames.