Building Homemade Rivers
By Kreighton Long
My summer of terrain projects continues with a set of homemade rivers. I set out to echo the method by which I created a set of ponds several years ago. The materials I used were chipboard for the base, plastic table covers for the river, Vallejo’s Silver Grey paint, Apple Barrel’s Black and Melted Chocolate paint, Delta Creative’s Trail Tan paint, Craft Smart’s Olive Green and Espresso paints, PVA glue, sand, and various basing flock and tufts.
For the plastic table covers I used LovePads 1.5mm thick clear desk pads. I prepped the table covers by cutting them to size, ironing them under a t-shirt to smooth out the material, and cleaning them with glass cleaner.