The Cheapest Roads Imaginable?

Whilst doing the weekly shop, I often find myself on the lookout for a bargain or two I can make serve gaming needs. This week was no exception and I may well have come up trumps.

You see it is fairly common knowledge I guess that doormats can turn into a variety of fields; I recently started a home scenery collection (not for the first time) with an off-cut of coir doormat for wheat fields, but I was  also on the lookout for a proxy for ploughed fields.  So I'm in Morrisons - one of our British Supermarkets foreign readers - and I find just such a doormat:

Possibly the least exciting picture on the blog, ever.

The one online is rather dark looking but in store it was a mid brown colour and a good size.  Best of all a mere 99p.  

Idly I thought I could make use of it, and turned it over to roll up and bung in my trolley, under a quid was no great loss for some terrain.  I then saw the back of the mat was even more useful!

The back is a textured rubberised finish, non-slip, in black.  Being a cheap mat the overall product was pretty thin and I realised that whilst one side would work fine as ploughed fields, the other could be painted as even better road surfaces.

Sure enough, a set of scissors and some drybrushing saw the whole mat converted in a matter of under an hour.

Four fields and about eight feet of road: £1

If you need something cheap, tough and effective, I can't imagine anything better.  Keep your eye out for them...