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I'm getting ready to put together our display board for Adepticon, and I'm trying to figure out what to use for the 'ground cover' for the very large area. Looking through the Osprey Terrain Masterclass book, it makes a ton of references to "Flexi Bark" which helps to give you that churned up earth look; this is great, but it seems that I can only get the product from the UK. I'd prefer a domestic option, honestly.

Can anyone recommend to me another material, or another method, to give the base a 'churned up ground' type look. I'd tossed around the idea of mixing some standard base flock with spackle, but am unsure if this will work or will even turn out nice.

Again, any recommendations or thoughts are appreciated! Thanks!

What about real bark...lol.

Seriously though, lots of dead or fallen trees would likely be good places to look. With a bit of work you could smoth or shape them to suit.

Check out Roundwood's blog. It might have something you could use.

http://sidneyroundwood.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/dead-marshes-part-1-building.html

I think it really depends on exactly how big the area is, (pictures. always pictures) I know bark works pretty well though the size might be limited depending on where you are.
Another option is casting your own rock with plaster. i know woodland scenic makes a rubber mold for such things and is available in the states.

 Desubot wrote:
I think it really depends on exactly how big the area is, (pictures. always pictures) I know bark works pretty well though the size might be limited depending on where you are.
Another option is casting your own rock with plaster. i know woodland scenic makes a rubber mold for such things and is available in the states.

You can also press bark/stones into semi-dry spackle/plaster to give it a surface texture.

oh speaking of impressions, you could also take bark and stone and do a negative mold into modeling clay, then cast using plaster fir a one off terrain piece. Iv been doing that for dragon teeth terrain for fun lol. dont forget the release agent though.