Use of 4 inch hexes

Since my wonderful wife procured the needed templates for hexes, I have cut some out in anticipation for our series of micro armor games.. 

In the raw. The first few would be stylized 'farms' circa FRG  in the 1980's.

 

 Coated in burnt umber, ready for next step....pva'd pan scrubs.

 

I cut up a couple of pan scrubbing pads to about 2 1/2 inch long strips about 1/4 inch wide,

soaked in 1:1 Elmers (PVA) to water solution;

Then rolled in 'LifeLike' brand grass mix;

More PVA, full strength to affix the hedges.

The 5 hexes needed for the scenario,

a 1/87 scale Leopard1 is much bigger than the 1/285th scale these hexes are meant  to portray.

Leopard among the 5 hexes. These hexes return soon as farm  plots.

Fast, not expensive nor hard to make, look ok in micro table top encounters. At game scale of 1 inch =50 meters. these represent 400 meter side to sidel

Comments

Four inch hexes are what I use too although I buy mine pre cut.
Matt Crump said…
Nice…..I am slowly creating a hex based gaming set up but keep getting distracted. I cheated though and bought the hexes from eBay 🙂
pancerni said…
May go that way, GHQ has them in several thicknesses, depends on how much Micro we wind up playing that 'needs' purpose built terrain. We've used Geo-Hex in our 28mm to 20mm for decades, but the hexes are 12"!
pancerni said…
It is really more about the map and the way the terrain is called out. When I first started out, we played at a very old school level, gridded squares, projectile firing cannons. More lately (last 45 years have been mainly with Geo-Hex, but that just for eye candy on the table.

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