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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: marianas_gamer on August 05, 2019, 11:23:22 AM
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I finally finished the bamboo grove that I have been working on. Look on it and weep. I certainly do :(.
(http://i.imgur.com/y6S31GM.jpg) (https://imgur.com/y6S31GM)
This one small piece of terrain took as much effort and as long as 10 infantry minis would normally and I have at least 2 more groves that I need to finish!
Here is a pic of the grove in place at Fu's garden of delights and terror.
(http://i.imgur.com/rDhBfN2.jpg) (https://imgur.com/rDhBfN2)
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I'd say time well spent though! Looks very good! :D
I might even try to go for that look now, might be nice for my Kong Jungle.
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Well now that it's done, the rest should be easy. :D
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That looks beautiful. Did you make / paint the bamboo? Would like to hear how you did it!
Greg
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Looks good Lon :)
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That looks great. I was lazy and didn’t paint my bamboo.
Did you undercoat the plastic bamboo first?
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Thanks everybody! princeman they are plastic with interior wire and I bought them off eBay. I will have to do a minimum of one more grove so I will post the painting process when I do. Scrubber yes I undercoat the bamboo in black before I start painting.
Lon
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Looks great to me!
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I like it.
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Bought mine from eBay as well. If you want a few packs and willing to wait, then worth bulk buy from China.
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Well a year later I got another bamboo grove finished. They are fiddly, time consuming, and pretty much required for my Chinese and Pacific games. Going back in this thread I see that I promised to show how they are painted.....well, next time.
(http://i.imgur.com/o3DL9SL.jpg) (https://imgur.com/o3DL9SL)
(http://i.imgur.com/moyiMwI.jpg) (https://imgur.com/moyiMwI)
In China
(http://i.imgur.com/911zsPC.jpg) (https://imgur.com/911zsPC)
An encounter with Dayaks in a bamboo thicket in Borneo.
(http://i.imgur.com/JR1C8Vv.jpg) (https://imgur.com/JR1C8Vv)
(I came away with my head lol )
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Looks great :)
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Very nicely done Sir! I bought the same - long vrsion I think so quite large even for 28mm. I just sprayed mine with three different shadesof green from rattle cans. Then varnish.
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wonderful work....
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Excellent work!! :)
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Wow, that looks incredible!
Dan
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Excellent work!! :)
PS. I’m going to steal some of the ideas when I make my bamboo groves:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128760.0
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CC,
Many thanks. Stealing Learning from others is how we all get better at this hobby lol It is certainly how I have.
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Would love to try this for my Ronin games. What do you search for when you search ebay? I have taken a brief look but cannot find anything.
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Excellent Lon 8)
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Really, really nice....
What search terms should a person use to find them on eBay? I tried, yet all I got were sets of dishes and toy trucjs!!!
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Mad Gadgeteer,
I believe that I searched for 28mm and bamboo
Lon
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Mad Gadgeteer,
I believe that I searched for 28mm and bamboo
Lon
Thanks!
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Excellent work marianas_gamer and well worth the considerable effort involved. Jungle plants and bamboo are next on my scenery list when I do the Pacific (which is essentially an entire table of foliage and is going to be hard going) and I’ll be doing exactly what you have. I’m still slogging through my plastic palm trees for Tunisia which have taken a lot of effort to scrape and mould line remove, then paint - but for me, there is nothing worse than seeing a beautifully put together table and then seeing unpainted plastic surfaces and massive mould lines on the trees. Once you notice them it’s almost all you can see (at least it is for me). It’s soul destroying work and could put you off scenery building for life but it makes a real difference and I’ve accepted that I’m a hobby masochist :). The scenery really is the third army on the table and deserves the time and effort. Whoever you play with (or against) is very lucky.
Keep it up,
BALM
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CC,
Many thanks. Stealing Learning from others is how we all get better at this hobby lol It is certainly how I have.
Lol. Keep up the great work.
Dan