So we make items for war gaming for a living, but the road to doing so was paved with years of being hobbyists ourselves. To that end, we still play when we can, and with a large basement we always had the luxury of a space for a huge table.

That said, at some point soon we will be empty-nesters (our youngest is done with school in a couple months) and we are looking towards moving somewhere warmer, somewhere where it will not be below freezing and snowing as late as May. On that front, I have been thinking a lot about how to down-size my war gaming hobby, while still keeping the flexibility of excellently modeled and good looking terrain. Enter the solution: Acrylic latex terrain mats.

Made from painter’s canvas drop cloth, some tubes of acrylic caulking, latex house paint, sand from the driveway, and flocking from a wide variety of sources (both homemade and purchased) and apparently a good deal of patience, I will begin working on this project and putting up posts here detailing my own experiences with the project.

I am sourcing a wide variety of tutorials for this, but the most instrumental in pushing me to do this, and the one I am following closely, can be found here:

http://tobispaintpot.blogspot.de/2012/10/a-new-horizon-tutorial-for-flexible.html

I doubt I could improve at all on this fantastic walk-through, and do not really aspire to, but thought I should point this out to anyone who might be interested in this project, and considering attempting it themselves. I would love to hear about your experiences with it as well. A special word of thanks to Tobi’s Paint Pot, an excellent blog.