Adrian's Olde Terrain Shoppe and Travel Guide

1) Fabric Paint

As someone who used to run a fabric painting 
business (graphic design, but we did jacket 
designs on leather and denim), I recall the 
Dylon fabric paint I worked with didn't require 
an ironing (only the pencil transfers we used for 
outlining did). Now, we usually did iron them, 
but I don't think that was a requirement. 
(They're too well hid for me to find just now). 
They worked well on cotton, canvas-ish or 
denim jackets, whereas thinned conventional 
paints worked best on leather. Nylon and such 
wouldn't be something I'd try to paint onto, 
and felt probably soaks in paint like a 
sonofagun. Sometime I should take a picture of 
the picture "The Combatants" (famous dragon 
vs. dragon from either Easley or Elmore IIRC) 
as rendered on my engineering jacket. I wish I 
had a picture of the one my partner did on his 
jacket - a Centaur Knight and a Wizard fighting 
a Dragon on a crumbling bridge. 

I'd try normal (though craft foam safe paint 
might be best or any acrylic so as to avoid 
solvents!) spray paint for speckling. You aren't 
worried about more than creating an illusion 
and the felt shouldn't soak in much because you 
aren't putting much on. 

2) Flocking sheets....		

Geohex terrain mats have some special 
character. They use a very fine grade of flock, 
they have a fairly uniform adhesive application, 
and they have some method of sealing the 
edges. I'm not sure I'd try duplicating them, at 
least not on felt as I don't think they use a felt 
base. And the one problem I do have with them 
is if you don't roll them (and instead fold them), 
you tend to lose flock along the fold lines. Heck, 
you tend to lose flock anyway, but it is more 
pronounced if you fold these mats. 

3) Adrian, I was laughing at your advice to Neil. 
I mailed him off list, mentioned you in Toronto, 
me in Ottawa, and Sentry Box in Calgary as an 
absolute must see. You wrote almost exactly 
the same thing, though with a bit more detail 
and the links. Great minds think alike! And I've 
mail ordered from them, they're pretty good, it 
seems. Used to be the only place I shopped 
when I lived in Alberta. And I've ordered from 
there since I came back to Ontario too.

Tally ho! 

Tomb
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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
-- Mark 'Indy' Kochte