Pulp Jungle Terrain

[marianas_gamer]

I am working on setting up a pulp campaign in Borneo around the turn of the 20th century. Although there are tons of great figures available I haven't been too satisfied with the vegetation I have been able to find so far. So I started scratch building my own jungle plants. I have started with useful plants and trees that would have been around villages, banana groves, sugar cane fields, and pandanus trees to now. Although I can not compete with some of the Meisterpainters on this list  :love: , I thougt that these came out pretty well. Of course, it helps that I can go down the road and take pictures and see these plants in the wild. Anyway take a look.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianas_gamer/

[Prof.Witchheimer]

hi, some quite nice looking trees there!

are the buildings scratchbuild too?

[Malamute]

Very nice trees.  

[Operator5]

Great start to the vegetation. How dense are you planning to make your jungles?

[Grimm]

looks like you have a real nice Game  

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks for the kind comments. yes the buildings are all scratch built as well. I modeled them off historic photos of houses in Micronesia and out of a great turn of the century Dutch book that I have (but can't find right now as most of my books are still in boxes from the last move) that details the the different types of plantations in the Dutch East Indies ca. 1900. I'm guessing that photos were probably taken of the better houses around, so these may be a little high end.

I am not sure how dense I'm going to pack the game board with vegetation. Like the real thing, jungle vegetation is starting to take over portions of my apartment  ::  and I don't want my wife to haul out her machete! I am planning on painting up a bunch of the small plastic palms (pastry decorations - on ebay all the time) for use as oil palm and betel nut plantations. I really like the look of these palms when they are painted.

One of my next projects is going to be a Dayak longhouse.