Some photos of the revamping of the tiles.

These photos are from my old Blog http://realisticminiatures.blogspot.com/ which I have placed here to give an idea of what we are doing.

With the help of my friend Scott Robertson of http://wab-ramblings.blogspot.com/ and my then 13 year old son Ayden we got to work revamping the old tiles.

The old tiles were made of 1 and a half inches thick and 2 foot by 2 foot foam pieces that had a 3 mm piece of ply stuck to the bottom. This was then given a coat of plaster of paris and moulded to any shape I desired. The tile was then painted a green colour and that was all that was done to a plain open tile. For the rivers and roads these sections were cut out and painted the appropriate colour and that was all we did.

NEW TILES

As you can see we are framing each tile with a frame of wood that is nailed to the ply base and the gap filled. This mixture of Plaster of paris, wood glue, sand and water which is moulded into the hills and ponds etc as required. This mixture sets rock hard and is very durable.

Once dry I paint the tiles a brown colour that resembles dirt and add the flock by painting a wood glue and water mixture to the areas that require the grass and then I sprinkle the said grass flocking on. After removing the excess grass when dry you have a finished plain tile.