Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time gamer. Gaming and model making has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3.

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occasion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of gaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy.

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Cobblestone battle mat - By UrbanMatz

I want to move the gangster project along this year. I pretty much have all the figures I need - and i have an "MDF mountain shame" of period buildings that need to be constructed. I was looking for something for an overall base when I happened across UrbanMatz - a company based in the Czech Republic - and I liked what I saw and acquired one!



It comes in a range of sizes but I went for 6x4. It is made from a printed 2mm thick neoprene material - its basically an enormous mouse mat . I comes with its own carry/storage bag as well.



It has a range of pattern and features on it too so its not totally uniform. after it had been laid out a while it smoothed out nicely - and was very non slip.


 I looked at range of reference pictures and saw plenty of U.S city pictures with cobble effect - so I am more than happy to use it as a base - I will just need to get some more colour into the building that need to be constructed to break the grey up i think. .



Service was very good from UrbanMatz - ordered on a weekend, arrived the following Thursday well packaged ,with tracked delivery - and good communications from the Vendor - not sure overall on value compared to other manufactures - but it felt about right - and with a good Euro exchange rate I am happy.  I need to source an alternative wall back drop as well now. But Serenity City is back on the production line.


10 comments:

  1. Now that looks awesome, definitely need to have a look at those.

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  2. I have a sneaky feeling that the streets of Salutesville will also be cobbled having seen this mat :)

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  3. Really great. Never heard of them before. Off to have a look

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  4. They look super. Really bummed the postage to Oz is so crazy high...

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  5. I've been eyeing up some of these mats? They are a really cool idea and yours looks perfect!

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  6. Looks great Dave, wonder what other gems we miss from Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia etc?

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  7. That mat certainly looks the business. Good buy!

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  8. It looks really well. I have found that mats are a good option to other terrain elements.

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  9. Nice! I've been looking about for something similar.

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