Morgan, Murphy and Simon Fraser

[kingsmt]

This is the project that I've been working on for a bit. It's in 3 parts and this is the first piece.
I'm not finished with this yet. I have a few more things to add, but it's about 90% finished.
Just a couple of finishing touches are needed.
The trees (and everything else) were built by me.
Figures are conversions of Battle Honors riflemen with KMM heads. Mounted officer is by F&D.

It October 7, 1777 and the battle at Bemis Heights rages on. A lone British officer is rallying his troops.
Colonel Danial Morgan realizes that the British officer is turning the battle. He orders a well know marksmen, Tim Murphy, to climb a tree and shoot that Officer. And thus it is, that Gereral Simon Fraser is killed
and the British never seem to recover.

I'm really happy with the way this is turning out. I've built several more trees to be planted on part 2 and 3.
 Oh! figures painted by John Bryant as usual.












This is piece number two. The basic groundwork is almost done. Once the trees and bushes are planted this will come to life. These are riflemen firing at the edge of the woods where the British muskets can't reach.
Officers are targets here and the damage was devastating.




Part three. This is in the beginning stages. I envisioned this as Morgan's riflemen coming through and out of the woods to join the battle. Once all three pieces are finished it will ll make sense. I hope??
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[Sascha Herm]

Great looking scenery pieces and figures. Love the story you are telling with these too.   

[kingsmt]

Thank you! I am flattered that you would bother to comment.
Your work is off the charts!

[senormeek]

Amazing work. I especially love your trees.

[wrgmr1]

Nice work! We have Simon Fraser University here in Vancouver.

[von Lucky]

Very nice - the time it must take to create the layers (colours and textures) has paid off.

However, you may need to add a haystack under Murphy (just in case he falls from taking a shot).

[kingsmt]

The figure in the tree actually fell into my big box of turf when I dumped the loose stuff back into the box.
It took me about 10 minutes to find him!

[Aaron]

Wow, fantastic work, Bill!

[kingsmt]

I especially love your trees.

The trees are sagebrush twigs and the "branches" are Scenic Express "supertrees" off cuts.
I took some sagebrush twigs (and some regular twigs from outside) and drilled holes into the trunk and attached the branches with super glue.
The branches were made by soaking the super tree in matte medium and letting it dry.
Then spray with gray and/or  brown spraypaint. Let that dry.
Hold the tree by the trunk and spray with Scotch 77 spray glue from the top down. You can use cheap hairspray here.
Shake whatever you use for leaves onto the tree while the glue is sticky.
Give it another spray and sprinkle a lighter color "leaf" again from the top down. This will represent new growth.

Once everything is dry, you can cut branches from the supertrees and attached them to the sagebrush twigs.

That's it.

Any questions?