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A little help request with flocking...  I've got a brand new gaming table that I want to surface.  If I could afford the high expense, I would use the GW flock because it is the exact blend of colors that I'm looking for.  They charge way too much for their flock however, so I'm looking for some alternatives.  A friend actually gave me a large supply of various Woodland Scenics flocking materials in various colors and shades, but the color of the Woodland Scenics Blended Turf is a bit darker than I would like.  As a result, I'm wondering several things...

1. Has anyone developed a mix of one or more Woodland Scenics flock that they can recommend?  If so, what is the ratio and colors for the mix?
   
2. Are there some other flocking manufacturers that folks would recommend for a simple green grass field?
   
3. Another alternative I've considered is just texturing the board surface with modeling sand and then painting it using a goblin green base coat, and doing appropriate highlights and shading of the sand.  This approach would have the advantage of being more durable than regular flock, and gives me complete color control, but would also seem to be a lot more time intensive.
   

I'd love to hear any one else's experience with the above three options I'm considering along with any other alternatives that people use that give similar color qualities as the GW flock.

Thanks!
Keith

I buy a pack of moss stuff from walmart take oput the log pieces and use a coffie grinder to grind it down very fine then mix in light and dark stadic as a last step. The ratio is 1/2 moss stuff to 1/4 dark and 1/4 light static grass. Looks great and I get 50% more ground cover.

the green sand thing works but I would still add fluffs of stadic grass around in places to make it look more belivable.

-BD

I use a blend of woodland scenics fine, medium, and coarse ballast for basing my models, along with their light green static grass flock. I highly recommend Woodland Scenics stuff over GW's equivalent.

for my terrain & bases i have found the " dollarstore" has more craft supplies than you think, i have gotten bags of fine sand in different colors & bags of polished rocks all for $1 each. also craft stores like AC moore & micheals i've gotten big bags of moss & lichen( think that how it's spelled) for a little more than a $1,& can't forget the supermarket parsley & oregano.

On another website (The Last Alliance), I saw how one gamer took a GW battle map and glued it down to their gaming boards.  This seems to work fine for a static grass look/feel.

Alternatively, I could check out the Woodland Scenics mats I guess.  They appear to be flock instead of static grass.  Only problem would be securing the vinyl to the foam board...

I also just found some felt backed ones from The WarStore made by Monday Night Games.  These look they might be easier to secure to the boards, but then I still have the problem of trying to match any other flocked items to the mats.  Ugh!

Keith

http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1046

Scenery express carries the Noch brand of static grass. The Spring Green is very much like the GW bright green flock. The difference is that you can buy a $13 dollar half gallon (155 grams) compared to GW's $8 dollar 15 gram container. The only down side is Scenery Express will hit you for a minimum $7 s/h, so it pays to order big.

Posted By RanTheCid on 02/15/2007 9:55 AM
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1046

Scenery express carries the Noch brand of static grass. The Spring Green is very much like the GW bright green flock. The difference is that you can buy a $13 dollar half gallon (155 grams) compared to GW's $8 dollar 15 gram container. The only down side is Scenery Express will hit you for a minimum $7 s/h, so it pays to order big.

Thank you RanTheCid!  The Noch stuff is exactly what I was looking for, and thanks to this posting I was able to learn that Noch makes most of GW's terrain materials, including the GW "flock" (which is more properly called "scatter" I guess according to this discussion I found on TMP).  It looks like I should get a sample of the Noch scatter light green for color comparison, and then order by the half gallon like you mentioned (assumign the scatter may be ordered the same way). 

Thanks again all for the opinions and info!

Keith