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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Sangennaru on September 03, 2017, 09:53:13 AM
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Cheers everyone! To go with the village i'm sloooowly building (see this thread: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=99735.msg1241491#msg1241491) i felt i needed something that resembles a forest, but forests made of solid chunks of foam really never convinced me.
Considering the "abandoned" feel of the whole board i'm building, i thought that a set of destroyed trees and small bushes might do the job. I've got five pieces so far, using mostly thyme (???) branches and other larger pieces found here and there, with a bit of Woodland Scenics clump foliage, trying not to overdo with it.
As always, i do NOT add bases to my scenery. With some of this pieces this proved challenging, but now they are all solid and playable with. :)
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tree1.jpg)
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tree2.jpg)
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tree3.jpg)
These last two are considerably bigger. Note the axe planted in one of the trunks.
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tree4.jpg)
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tree5a.jpg)
(http://thelazyforger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tree5b.j.jpg)
C&C Welcome!
Thanks
Jack
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Nice bits of terrain. That would work well if you were looking for swamp trees as well.
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Nice bits of terrain. That would work well if you were looking for swamp trees as well.
Thanks! That's true, swamps could work as well, but i didn't want to prepare a "muddy" ground for the whole 3x3 table... I might do swamped areas to place here and there though, it could work greatly!
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Very nice!
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I like those.
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Very nice. Well done. :D
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Very very cool!
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Very nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
What are you using for the bases
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Nice work, very scrub like :-*
LB
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They give indeed the look of an old forest with destroyed trees, very realistic! A source of ispiration! Congrats!
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Thank you everyone! :) That's really motivating!
Very nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
What are you using for the bases
Thanks Mac! Here's the pont, i'm not using bases at all! Hence, what i simply do is to fix turfs in position with abundant PVA glue, applying them on a glass sheet. When dry, i remove the piece and leave the base as it is. It's not nearly as sturdy as a MDF base, but honestly that's not a concern for me.
Thanks again gents! Hopefully more will come, possibly integrated with some particularly ruined ruins from my other thread:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=99735.msg1270743#msg1270743
Cheers
Jack
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Great stuff! You style your trees the way you do your buildings, no visible base in sight, I really like that idea! It'll look less jarring on the board! 8)
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...Hence, what i simply do is to fix turfs in position with abundant PVA glue, applying them on a glass sheet. When dry, i remove the piece and leave the base as it is. It's not nearly as sturdy as a MDF base, but honestly that's not a concern for me.
It is a really great and inspiring idea! Thanks!!!
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Great stuff! You style your trees the way you do your buildings, no visible base in sight, I really like that idea! It'll look less jarring on the board! 8)
Thanks Andy! Less jarring and FAR more versatile! I could set them on a snowy terrain, a cobblestone or a grasslan with no big issues of consistency! ^^
It is a really great and inspiring idea! Thanks!!!
Glad to be of any help! :)
Cheers
Jack
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It is a really great and inspiring idea! Thanks!!!
Seconded. Given me some ideas.
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It's an interesting idea, gluing to glass so you can remove it, I have been experimenting with gluing on to PVC packaging cut into small pieces to achieve a similar effect but leaving the pvc under the terrain piece because it 'disappears' on a board background.
I tend to agree with you that bases detract from fitting the terrain piece onto a board, it seems most people do a board one colour and terrain bases a different one, accentuating the difference.
The other thing that is really good is using natural materials, I don't understand why someone would buy a piece of dowel, distress it to look like a tree trunk, paint it to look like a tree trunk, it then looks like a piece of painted straight dowel, when they could go outside and cut off a piece of wood as you have done. It's much cheaper, simpler, and more effective to use a twig.
Hope I've not been too controversial.
Look forward to seeing more.
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It's an interesting idea, gluing to glass so you can remove it, I have been experimenting with gluing on to PVC packaging cut into small pieces to achieve a similar effect but leaving the pvc under the terrain piece because it 'disappears' on a board background.
Oh, i see! That would work too, I guess! it might end up sturdier!
The other thing that is really good is using natural materials, I don't understand why someone would buy a piece of dowel, distress it to look like a tree trunk, paint it to look like a tree trunk, it then looks like a piece of painted straight dowel, when they could go outside and cut off a piece of wood as you have done. It's much cheaper, simpler, and more effective to use a twig.
What you say it's true, but there's often the opposite mistake done too: Sahara sand is NOT the best material for basing Rommel's troops, and real stone usually lacks the shades you need to represent a worn large stone in scale.
But with wood, assuming you chose the proper ones, it works better, mostly because wood in nature has a wide range of colours!
Cheers
Jack
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These look really nice.
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Really nice trees. Inspiring me to go rummage around the garden.
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These look really nice.
Thanks! :)
Really nice trees. Inspiring me to go rummage around the garden.
Oh please do! Most of the stuff you find around aren't suitable to work well as scale-trees, but some of the smaller bushes are really surprising.
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Great work indeed, look brilliant, very natural with no bases.
I do admit I'd like to do some similar sizes myself but I usually use a big old coin as a base, not really sure why. Saying that it works haha...
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Very nice, just like all your stuff. 8)
Now, how about a shot of these beauties all together on the intended table? ;)