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Title: Trees WIP
Post by: Kingscarbine on 12 January 2012, 04:41:43 PM: Hi,

I'm working on some generic trees that I hope to use with 20mm and 28mm. They look OK but seem to work better with 28mm. The photos are a bit hazzy...

(http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/802/12012012677.jpg)

(http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/6343/12012012676.jpg)

(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3152/12012012679.jpg)

(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2384/12012012680.jpg)

(http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4144/12012012681.jpg)

(http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2395/12012012683.jpg)

(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7218/12012012682.jpg)
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Clearco on 12 January 2012, 04:48:57 PM: They are pretty cool! How did you do the leaves?
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Raxxus on 12 January 2012, 05:10:32 PM: tut?

these are very nice:)
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on 12 January 2012, 05:35:16 PM: Very nice 8)

The first one is my fav but that might be because the base is finished ???

cheers

James
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: carlos marighela on 12 January 2012, 05:39:14 PM: Lovely work Nuno. I think they work well with both. It's funny but gamers seem to forget how big trees actually can be.
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Post by: Plynkes on 12 January 2012, 05:45:38 PM: That may be because ground scales aren't always the same as figure scales, and having correctly-scaled scenery just doesn't work sometimes. You end up with barns half a mile long. Or it may be something else, that is more a thing with buildings, I suppose.

But I have some toy baobabs, and as far as I can tell they are perfectly suitable for 28mm figures (I mean, those things are massive), but when you put them on the tabletop they somehow look wrong. Just too big.

Lovely work there, Kingscarbine.
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Wirelizard on 12 January 2012, 05:57:50 PM: Those look great. Definitely second the calls for a how-to - at a guess, it looks like steel wool foliage (or maybe some sort of foliage net?) and natural brush parts for the trunks?

One of the other problems with big trees is the amount of table space they take up, not just on the actual tabletop but above it where you're trying to reach to handle figures! Somebody loaned me some very, very nice jungle trees to add to a pulp jungle game I was running last year, and we wound up moving them off the table; their footprint was smaller than a lot of the other stuff on the table but the height just proved to be an irritation. Pity, really, as they looked great and improved the look of the table!
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: carlos marighela on 12 January 2012, 06:02:08 PM: Quote from: Plynkes on 12 January 2012, 05:45:38 PM
That may be because ground scales aren't always the same as figure scales, and having correctly-scaled scenery just doesn't work sometimes. You end up with barns half a mile long. Or it may be something else, that is more a thing with buildings, I suppose.

But I have some toy baobabs, and as far as I can tell they are perfectly suitable for 28mm figures (I mean, those things are massive), but when you put them on the tabletop they somehow look wrong. Just too big.

Lovely work there, Kingscarbine.

I quite agree re footprint and I tend to use smaller buildings and the like to reduce their footprint for scale. Height is something we seem to forget. Outside my balcony there's a fairly non-descript tree, the two trunks would be no thicker than my legs and yet it's at least sixty to seventy foot high. Practicalities of size aside I suspect it's more a case that we are used to the notion of the three inch model railway tree as being the norm.
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: sundayhero on 12 January 2012, 06:09:31 PM: the foliage looks like the synthetic wool you can find in pillows (don't now the name in english). It's what I use, and they look similar.
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Kingscarbine on 12 January 2012, 06:50:00 PM: Thanks guys. I actually followed this tutorial: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19416.15

There are many useful twigs in my garden that I gather when it's cleaned. I spray the wool black, dark brown and/or dark green and then use gloss spray varnish to fix the foliage.

Foliage is a mix of dry tea and some Evergreen stuff I bought many years ago (lost the reference :(). When I use only dry tea I spray a light cover of dark green to give it some colour.
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Patrice on 12 January 2012, 06:54:53 PM: Thank you! I need trees for my Breton countryside earthen banks and I'm not happy with what I can do.

This gives me new ideas.
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: Kingscarbine on 13 January 2012, 10:20:06 AM: I can take some commissions for the right price. :D
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: carlos marighela on 13 January 2012, 10:45:35 AM: I know a chap who will let you clean the flash off his figures in part exchange. lol
Title: Re: Trees WIP
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 13 January 2012, 11:50:43 AM: Quote from: carlos marighela on 13 January 2012, 10:45:35 AM
I know a chap who will let you clean the flash off his figures in part exchange. lol

;D

cheers

James