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!

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