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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Smokeyrone on 09 February 2010, 09:16:48 PM
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Looking at my backyard, I see banana trees.
A must for `South America, Mexico and Africa, gaming I would think. Yet, I don't see many on the gaming table.
Anyone know who to make them? (plastic ones, I already know how real banana trees make little banana trees :D Actually, I don't. Fill me in on that as well, please) ;)
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(I already know how real banana trees make little banana trees :D Actually, I don't. Fill me in on that as well, please)
Modern cultivars (mainly Cavendish) are seedless. They are propagated from offsets. This makes them genetically identical clones and thereby quite vulnerable to diseases.
Botanists describe banana plants as pseudostems so they're not really trees at all. Or so they say.
Pegasus Hobbies makes plastic banana trees. (pic (http://www.tstmodellismo.it/popup_image.php?pID=738)). You can get them from Noble Knight, for example. Or here (http://www.ccgarmory.com/batr2te.html).
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Modern cultivars (mainly Cavendish) are seedless. They are propagated from offsets. This makes them genetically identical clones and thereby quite vulnerable to diseases.
Botanists describe banana plants as pseudostems so they're not really trees at all. Or so they say.
Pegasus Hobbies makes plastic banana trees. (pic (http://www.tstmodellismo.it/popup_image.php?pID=738)). You can get them from Noble Knight, for example. Or here (http://www.ccgarmory.com/batr2te.html).
Thats the ones I have, stil in their boxes but look fine
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Modern cultivars (mainly Cavendish) are seedless. They are propagated from offsets. This makes them genetically identical clones and thereby quite vulnerable to diseases.
Botanists describe banana plants as pseudostems so they're not really trees at all. Or so they say.
Pegasus Hobbies makes plastic banana trees. (pic (http://www.tstmodellismo.it/popup_image.php?pID=738)). You can get them from Noble Knight, for example. Or here (http://www.ccgarmory.com/batr2te.html).
Thanks! My neighbor, a botonist, told me I had to kill one of my fur banana "plants" for sme reason, toinsure the others would thrive. Very hard to kill. You can't. I dug the entire root system out, and it keeps coming back. Oh well. The 'nanas are tasty, if small, on my plants. :)
Mine are not like those, though. They have many stalks/stems, all huddled together. (about fifty stalks/trunks, bunched in a 6' x 6' group, for each 'Nana tree)
Pegasus, eh? Will acquire!
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Speaking of bananas...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng
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Yours may be Plantains which look very similar but tend to be smaller, both fruit and plant.
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Yours may be Plantains which look very similar but tend to be smaller, both fruit and plant.
The Plantains we get here are HUGE (thrice the size of bananas) These are "Little bananas", about 6 inches long. BTW, pan seared plantains is a staple at the Smokey household (they get really sweet when you cook them). With yellow rice, beans and a fish or skirt steak, you really have a fine meal going!
As an aside, I found a Haitian woman (she volunteered with us, packing boxes of relief items for Haiti) with a bunch of Ackee trees! (They are super illegal in Florida, the gubmint will cut them down if reported to them, so you have to buy canned ackee at $10.00 a can!!! >:() She, thrilled that a white boy knew what an ackee is (to use her words ;)) , and knows what to do with them, gave me a big bag of frozen ackee, and said she will keep me in ackee in perpetuam. ;D
Cod and ackee is a traditional English/Caribbean meal in the West Indies. Nothing better!!!! :D That is Pirate/Privateering fare, I'll tell you what!
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(http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/at2/2009/9/30/1bb22d83a5a6e7e51db43b116310113e_18427.jpg)
In the back of my head there's a hole where ideas wander in and nibble at my brain occasionally, causing mild pain and irritation.
I've been considering making some jungle foliage for my Chindits (and also for some planned Gurkha purchases) using the old aquarium-plant favourites as well as some more creative bits and pieces.
I found these homemade banana trees http://www.warfactory.co.uk/gallery/alanjungle/alanjunglegallery.php ; although it's not exactly a 'how-to', you can kind of see how they're put together. I must give them a go.
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Cubs, fix da link. :-)
Grimm
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http://www.warfactory.co.uk/gallery/alanjungle/alanjunglegallery.php
Here it is.
Hope that helps.
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The Plantains we get here are HUGE (thrice the size of bananas) These are "Little bananas", about 6 inches long. BTW, pan seared plantains is a staple at the Smokey household (they get really sweet when you cook them). With yellow rice, beans and a fish or skirt steak, you really have a fine meal going!
I was about to say, the fully grown plaintains I turn into chips are MASSIVE!
Maybe there's a rare pygmy plaintain somewhere....
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Cubs, fix da link. :-)
Grimm
Nothing wrong with it, I don't know what you mean, man.
Tum ti dum.
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Hoard O Bits sells some: http://hoardobits.com/cgi/hob/shop.pl?cat1=banana&cat2=&cat3=&cat4=&page=&view=08122013-1-80 (http://hoardobits.com/cgi/hob/shop.pl?cat1=banana&cat2=&cat3=&cat4=&page=&view=08122013-1-80) (if the link doesn't work try the main page and then do a search for "banana": http://hoardobits.com/ (http://hoardobits.com/) )
I bought some for my 28mm Vietnam war game, and were ok if you wanted small to medium plants.
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Thanks Holmes, I didn't know Pegasus had started to do the banana trees as well as their other palm trees.
If I was planning to do a load and didn't mind spending a little, they'd certainly be my first choice I reckon.
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Cubs - we've exchanged on the WG forum.
Those banana trees are mine, so if you want to know how to make 'em, let me know. Aiden hasn't updated the Warfactory site in a few years, but I'm too lazy to set up a website, and my health is a bit ropey so there are other things I should do in any case. I've come up with a fair number of modelling solutions over the years, and am happy to share any of them if anyone wants.
Al
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Yes yes yes!
I really would like to know the 'how to' on those babies.
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My thought on making the tree would be similar to palm trees but smaller less 'cut' leaves along the lines of http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/389056/ (http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/389056/)
As for the fruit - no idea other than sculpt them…
Hope this helps
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I've come up with a fair number of modelling solutions over the years, and am happy to share any of them if anyone wants.
Al
Al,
Perhaps a post on the 'How to' page would allow us all to share your skills. Thanks in anticipation.
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My thought on making the tree would be similar to palm trees but smaller less 'cut' leaves along the lines of http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/389056/ (http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/389056/)
As for the fruit - no idea other than sculpt them…
Hope this helps
Thank you Mr B, straight into the Faves File.
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Hi.
Andrew is right, although the banana leaf shape is slightly different.
The key difference is the trunk, which is made by wrapping the wires with strips of masking tape which have been cut down the middle using pinking shears, Pinking shears are scissors designed to cut a zig-zag line raher than a straight line. Starting at the top of the trunk, wrap the strips to spiral down the trunk, keeping the zig-zag edge upwards. Paint it in a darker shade of the required trunk colour and dry-brush with a lighter shade to bring out the texture.
I'll provide more detail with some pics soon - although it's virtually 20 years since I actually made any!
One of our fellow adventurers has kindly offered to put my stuff on his site, so I'll do that and provide links from here.
Al
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Cheers Al.
Good to see you.