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Title: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Codsticker on 11 October 2021, 04:44:58 PM
It seems like you can never have enough hedges or trees in your medieval or ECW games and although I have several feet of hedging I only had three trees. By adding 6 more I have tripled my collection! :D
(https://i.imgur.com/WCa73YP.jpg)
2 of them are made from Woodland Scenics armatures, 4 of them from sage brush cuttings I bought second hand; on some of them I added plastic WS branches added to them as shown in the picture below:
(https://i.imgur.com/Qp1gZxB.jpg)
I used my now go-to material for the canopy branches, 3M Heavy Duty Stripping Pad material.
(https://i.imgur.com/C6FYkZw.jpg)
After a spray coat of grey primer, followed by GW's Wyldwood contrast paint and a light drybrush of grey foliage was added.
(https://i.imgur.com/UjAy0US.jpg)
I used two types: on your left in the photo below, Heki Tree Leaves 1620 and on your right, a blend of SuperLeaf med. green and spring green (with a pinch of moss green).
(https://i.imgur.com/Joz2D8e.jpg)
The basing is my usual static grass mix with med. green SuperTurf and home made shrubs over a foundation of bark mulch that had been ground in a coffee grinder. With a coat of thinned burnt umber I am quite happy with both the texture and colour.
(https://i.imgur.com/Jo4xFwb.jpg)
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 11 October 2021, 04:48:28 PM
They look great  :)
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: dampfpanzerwagon on 11 October 2021, 06:59:18 PM
I agree, they look great.

Purely coincidental, I'm also working on a couple of new additions to my wargame tree collection and have just taken some images that I hope to be posting soon.

Tony
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: has.been on 11 October 2021, 07:37:34 PM
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mulch that had been ground in a coffee grinder.

Doesn't your coffee taste funny after that? lol
Very nice looking trees.
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Roo on 11 October 2021, 07:51:31 PM
Superb trees sir
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Codsticker on 11 October 2021, 08:32:38 PM
Thank you everyone for the nice remarks.
Quote from: dampfpanzerwagon on 11 October 2021, 06:59:18 PM
Purely coincidental, I'm also working on a couple of new additions to my wargame tree collection and have just taken some images that I hope to be posting soon.

Tony
Excellent, I look forward to that; your posts and blog are always inspiratiional.
Quote from: has.been on 11 October 2021, 07:37:34 PM
Doesn't your coffee taste funny after that? lol
Just like bunk house coffee. lol
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Silent Invader on 11 October 2021, 08:38:48 PM
Very nicely done  8)
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Lascaris on 11 October 2021, 08:42:06 PM
Really nice job on those. Now, you just need about 200 more of them!
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: BeneathALeadMountain on 11 October 2021, 09:48:35 PM
As a retired tree surgeon I approve of those trees! I’m (very slowly) increasing my tree collection but the mould lines on the woodland scenics armatures have nearly destroyed my sanity!

BALM
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: AKULA on 12 October 2021, 04:41:39 PM
Excellent trees mate, very realistic looking  8)
Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Just a few orcs on 12 October 2021, 11:28:38 PM
"You can never have to many trees."  So Keep going they look very nice

Title: Re: Expanding My Tree Collection
Post by: Blackwolf on 13 October 2021, 01:48:16 AM
Very nice :-*