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Does anybody out there have any advice on making some sort of farmland piece of Terrain like for instance a Cornfield or a Wheat Field to be placed next to a farm house, I am trying to work on my table and would really think a farm would make it look great.

Fake fur from a fabric store in an appropriate color can work for tall grass/wheat.

If you go to your local home improvement store you can find tile trowels with a right angle pattern. Grab some wall mud and a base and you can just slap it down and pull it into rows. You can leave it like that, or add broom bristles or the like by just pressing them into the rows and letting it harden. Hope that makes sense, if I need to clarify anything just let me know!

Get a one f those natural bristly door mats, cut to shape, done.

A cheap doormat would certainly be an easy source of scale "wheat". Keep in mind gaming practicality though - how are troop models going to move through such a 3D field of wheat? Either they'll have to perch on top (which would look weird and could have Line of Sight consequences) or you'll have to move the field out of the way, which kind of spoils the visual effect.

For gaming practicality, make it in 2 sections. an outer section that forms the perimeter and has enough "wheat/corn" to provide the intended amount of cover, and an inner section that can be removed so models can be placed inside.

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grab mummy's or daddy's old straw broom, when it's down to its nub. Cut off all of the string, and this will take a LONG time, but hot-glue all the bristles standing up. you will get a wheat field, but......... its useless. it looks pretty, but it's hard to stand on, it's weirdly shaped terrain, and you always have to stand "on" it. Just try doing fallow or fresh-planted fields, with an abandoned plow or two.

I'd suggest you think about using harvested fields for the same reasons suggested by Clang.

1. Enclose with fence
2. Base for effect
3. Add the odd bristle or patch of corn
4. Play with cornstooks and haybales.
5 don't forget little tidbits like cornflowers, poppies etc or the odd rat or a scythe (I used to make them out of foil sweet wrappers)

Useful supplies for this are GF9 straw and the Ziterides range.
I did a couple of these but alas they were with the rest of my Mordheim city terrain stored under the boiler that burst while I was away over Christmas. They are on the build queue after I finish the Mechanicus complex that ate my life....

Did some thinking. If you did a vineyard style farm, that would be pretty boss. Free movement along one grain, and difficult movement along another grain of the field. You can even shape the plants after an "alien" style. Tis method has great merit.

My local club uses teddy bear fur.