Hi everyone !
I didn't built anything from more than a year, but now I've got time, I'd like to start a new project. I don't play any game but I like building stuff, and sometimes painting minis. My speciality : starting something and never finishing it... :'( I hope I'll finish this one !
I'd like to make a quiet and peacefull landscape, with an old house with a view over a lake, with rocks on the backgrounds.
One of the challenge I'll try to succeed is to make... a tree ! I never tried to build realistic trees but I think it's pretty hard, so let's see... And let's go !
So let's start with a piece of styrofoam : 40 x 30 cm. This the base of my scenery.
You can see the place where will stand the house. I also cut the wall of the house into foam core.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img15/3165/cb3t.jpg)
The house will have the feet on the water, that's why the base is not flat. Now assembled, with a 28mm minis for scale (a saxon, not really in the mood of this scenery, but this was all I had at the moment !) :
(http://imageshack.us/a/img28/9752/zakw.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img856/5328/mtos.jpg)
I digged the part where the lake will stand and shaped the slopes on the background, and primed the house in black :
(http://imageshack.us/a/img10/8591/nf15.jpg)
I took my hammer and started nailing planks on the wall :
(http://imageshack.us/a/img34/6199/smzv.jpg)
Then assembled :
(http://imageshack.us/a/img542/8194/wr8w.jpg)
That's it for the moment, I'll try to give you some news very soon !
Thanks, and forgive me if you find syntactic mistakes, english is not my native language :P
Thanks Grant !
I often use this "skin" of wood, like in my old west buildings in this topic (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43058.0).
I started a tree, with a base made of iron wire and cable wire, and a layer of modeling clay (plastiroc). When the clay was drying, I marked the tree horizontally and vertically, trying to recreate a realistic bark. That wasn't easy... Finally, I added sawdust on the trunk to give a rough surface.
A few photos :
(http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5074/4itl.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img809/1241/zoap.jpg)
It's quite a big tree, maybe too much !
(http://imageshack.us/a/img132/1344/l5bs.jpg)
(sorry for the dark pictures :( )
Have a nice day !