My ACW Cornfields

They may not have been my idea, but they look good....

My Wednesday night gaming group is a very casual thing.  We play this, that and the other thing.  We're not serious about any one game or time period.  I few years ago I purchased the Perry Brothers "ACW Battlefield in a Box".  It's been used a few times, but my tabletop was missing something....

I have a terrain piece that looks like a field.  It is painted like dirt and has furrows in it to make it look like, well, a field. 

  

 Simple, mostly effective.  Usually I put a random tree in it or walls around it.  This is how it looks on my ACW battlefield...

 In this particular game it appears as a barren field.  OK, I guess that works.

 

  Last week I was in Hobby Lobby and my wandering eye spotted this: 

 

My brain immediately said to itself, "Self, you must have these.  We have an idea...".  I don't know if the idea is completely original or if I have seen it before in my years of Conventions, but I bought three packs of the Corn Stalks.  They come in rows of 7 stuck into (roughly) 5"x1" pieces of styrofoam.  When I got home my 3D printer churned out a (roughly) 5"x1" base, and 14 drops of hot glue later I had this:

 

5 more 3D printed bases, 70 more drops of hot glue and an application of Americana "Dark Chocolate" craft paint, I had these:

 And by a miracle of happy coincidence, they fit almost perfectly on my field!

So now when the fields are contested, the battles can look something like this:

 

 

Overall, I'm pretty happy.  Thanks for looking.

Dave