Building some terrain.

Welcome to my first post and for my first posting I thought I would show how I made a small vineyard for our games.
I started off with some 1/8" thick mdf.  I cut out the basic shape and drew on some straight lines to help keep my rows straight.  I then trimmed down some balsa wood for the posts so they were a little shorter than our 15mm figures we use.  I then glued down the posts to the mdf and allowed it dry.  Once that dried I spread some Liquitex Matte Gel onto the board.  I then placed it in a box to collect the mixture of woodland scenics talus and medium ballast.  I then put it aside for 24 hours to dry.

Once the ground cover dried, I then spread some more matte gel in areas and then sprinkled a mixture of woodland scenics flocking onto the base. I tapped off the excess flocking and allowed that dry for 24 hours.  I then took some rope colored sewing thread and glued it to one end of the posts and then stretched it cross a line of posts.  As I pulled the thread taught I glued the thread to the top of the posts.  On the far end I glued down the other end of the thread.  I repeated this two more times.

Once all of this dried, it was time to add the vines.  I had looked at a few different websites before I started this and wanted to do some thing a little easier then some of the examples I had read about.  So I started with some woodland scenics lichen.  I tore some apart and glued it down to the base and then glued the strands to the thread.

I repeated this process for each little section until I was done.  I have to say this process slowed me down as I actually got picky as to how the lichen looked and tested each piece in the area before I glued it in place.

After about a two hours of picking through pieces of lichen, I finally finished it.

Here's the finished product with a stand of figures in the middle of it.

Here's a picture of it on the gaming table.  Its not perfect but it works and was relatively inexpensive.