A Green and Pleasant Land - Creating a Gaming Table for Barons War

Now that we have a general idea of where table elements should be, it is time to place them down on the table one at a time and see how they interact. As a rule, i try to start with natural elements first. If I was planning on adding hills, I would start with them, but as I am trying to keep this table simple and flat, I will start with the river.

The modular river files I chose are from the printable scenery range – Wild River – https://www.printablescenery.com/product/wild-rivers/ I picked this set as it offers decent flexibility and could be used in a wide range of tables over  wide variety of historical periods/fantasy settings. It is a little narrow but offers options for fordable spaces as well as integration with a water mill. Sadly, it dow not ahve a bridge and I created one by adding a bridge file to the river tile on my 3D slicing software (an easy 2 mn job, just make certain the rocks from the river edge do not protrude from the bridge…)

Let us take a look in more details at a river tile.

I painted it following these steps:

1. Primed camo brown
2. Dry brushed the banks in progressively lighter brown tones using craft paints
3. Finished by painting the larger rocks in medium grey and dry brushed them light gray. The bushes were painted medium green and drybrush light green.
4. For the water, I started with a craft paint dark blue at the center and added progressively lighter ‘bands’ on each side till I reached the banks with whitish blue color. I then wet blended roughly the blue’ bands’.
5. I then used clear modge podge on the water and, once dry, applied Woodland Scenics water effect around the rocks, which dried clear. Once the effect was dry, I added white paint on and around it to reinforce the effect.