28mm scale ploughed field

More Dumfries show extras…

Whilst my partners in crime are providing the buildings for the vilage in the centre of the board I couldn’t resist trying out an idea that came to me for a small ploughed field.

It is made from a sheet of blue-foam (5mm thickness) glued to a base of 2mm MDF.

I then cut a slot roughly 1/2 inch in from the edge and approximately the thickness of a coffee stirer. I then cut triangles out of the middle section to make my ploughed area.

Next I cut a load of coffee stirers into 25mm lengths and glued them all into the slot I had cut out, a couple of 30mm lenghts either side of the gate and retained the rounded end on a few sections to make the gate stand out. Sand was then glued over everything and painted when dry.

This was a littel time consuming because of cutting the coffee stirers but other than that I was really pleased with a simple idea that I think worked out pretty well.