The Plains of Rohan, home of the Horse-Lords, the Rohirrim. While I'm not really all good with the choice of location, Peter Jackson used for his movies (to my understanding, that's not really horse-land), the stony outcroppings give some unique character to the scenery.
The scenes were shot a Poolburn in NZ:
To get the character of the locale onto the gaming table, two things are needed: the grassy plains (done with a gaming mat) and those rocky outcroppings.
To me, nothing beats nature when it comes to rocks and stones. So, the first thing to do is gather some rocks. Those are washed and glued to a carboard base with PVA glue.
I then use coarse structure paint mixed with dark brown to fill the gaps and make the stones jut up from the ground. In between, I added some small gravel.
This takes a while to dry. Afterwards, I paint the 'earth' in a dark brown and the 'rocks' in a dark grey.
The rocks are now brushed wiht a lighter grey to define the texture.
The rocks are now washed with a green wash to give them a more natural look.
When the wash has dried, the rocks are brushed with light grey and drybrushed with some really light grey. The 'earth' is drybrushed with a lighter brown.
Now, static grass is applied with PVA glue, and some tufts of grass are added here and there. The outcroppings are now ready for the gaming table.
The actual stones make for a nice weight, so they won't be pushed aside so easliy in play and they help forming a landscape with the gaming mat and books to form hills.
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