My North Pacific Board - UPDATE 19/4 2015 p.10 - Better pics

[carlos marighela]

My fevered imagination had pictured the scenario as a battle scarred A&R man from a major record label trekking into the woods around Seattle to 'terminate with extreme prejudice' the lead singer of a highly derivative 'grunge rock' band based in the Pacific North West. I was already imaging the culminating scene with our hero reporting back, "Mr Kurt, he dead".

Beautiful work on the trees btw.

[Ray Rivers]

 

Well done!

Looks like it's going to be a great board and fun to play on.

[anevilgiraffe]

great looking boards on their own...

how do they look all together? is there a decent transition from woodland to forest?

love the forest especially, looks really good - where are the ferns from?

[Henrix]

The ferns are fronds from miniature palm trees sold by Everestmodel on eBay. Here's the thread about it.

[Calimero]

The "old forest" board would be perfect to play a what if Japanese invasion of British Colombia

[Centaur_Seducer]

Or hell be like my great grandpa and run booze from Canada

I have the same set up for my campaign start. Just that it's some serious moonshining going on that will show to be something different in the end

how do they look all together? is there a decent transition from woodland to forest?

Well, to be honest they still look daft when put together. Since I've been working with one board a time, and then put it in my gaming club, I haven't been able to do the transition work yet. But I hope to do it when these four are done. There's also an issue of the pieces looking like pieces even when put together, so I'm experementing with some ultra thin plastic card which I intend to flock and muck around with until it looks descent

@Carlos: You wish!

Thanks for the great support guys! This really spurs me to finish of the other stuff as soon as possible. Even thoug that's impossible considering my time issues

[Daeothar]

Terrific work!

I've been toying with the idea of making a large tree forest for ages as well, but since I have no place to store any terrain at the moment, it has been put on hold for the time being. Still, once I finish my dedicated game-room, I will be all over varied terrain projects like my wife over a clothing sale!

My plan is to make the trees and the ferns all seperate though, so I can move them around when the situation dictates it. Loads of ferns on individual bases, so I can still move miniatures through them. And the trees would be very much alike yours; just the trunks showing, with the canopy out of sight for ease of play.

I'm planning to source suitable branches in the woods and cut and paint them in the appropriate shapes and colours. Yours look very real though; most excellent indeed!

I know you had a seperate thread in which you were looking for the ferns, but I might as well ask here; which ones did you eventually use here? They look really good. Are they aquarium plants?

Keep up the good work; it's coming together really well and I love the results so far. I will be following this...

[Centaur_Seducer]

I know you had a seperate thread in which you were looking for the ferns, but I might as well ask here; which ones did you eventually use here? They look really good. Are they aquarium plants?

I can't honestly tell, otherwise the chin... I mean Not-chinese supplier might get a wiff of the demand and thus increasing prices. Can't really afford that price increase!

Seriously, I bought these in a 100 for 6 quid Well, there was about 75 or so, but still, rather cheap
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310419510181?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

It's N-scale palm trees. A bitch to cut of before you learn the trick, but in the end they look alright when banded together in dozens. However, they take paint very badly, so I might opt to "dip" them in green and some varnish next time make sure that the colour sticks better. And I did highlight most plants individually, but it doesn't really show that on the photo

The more dark green ferns are these palm trees:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160859309001?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

O-Scale. But the ferns turned out to be almost the same size. So I basically could've bought 200 (150 or whatever) instead of a mere 20 of these, and 100 of the N-scale ones.

Hope it helps!

[AKULA]

Very effective-looking.  Love the big tree trunks

 

[Mr Pommeroy]

I really like the mood of the "old forest" board, very nice ferns, well done!

Pmmerory.

[Henrix]

However, they take paint very badly, so I might opt to "dip" them in green and some varnish next time make sure that the colour sticks better.

I found them fairly easy to drybrush with thick paint.
Otherwise I recommend water soluble oil paint (or real oil paint if you don't mind the turpentine).

[Wirelizard]

As a coastal BC resident, I have to say that main big tree and fern board is awesome - most wargaming terrain is kind of generic, but that really does look like a scene I could find an hour or so outside of town!

[Centaur_Seducer]

As a coastal BC resident, I have to say that main big tree and fern board is awesome - most wargaming terrain is kind of generic, but that really does look like a scene I could find an hour or so outside of town!

Cheers!
I did do a lot of research for this and the big inspiration was this:

[Poiter50]

Looking forward to seeing some of those when I visit BC next month. 

[Relic]

That board is just superb. I like the way you have done the tree trunks  (idea stolen)
Are the trees ready made or home made? they look fantastic and I would like to hear how you do them.