Road To Rangoon, Building Burma in 1943

[ancientsociety]

"Road to Rangoon" will chronicle my building of a Burma theater board for Adepticon 2016 BA Nationals and, later this year, a British army based in the CBI Theater. First up are some jungle stands and Type 97 wrecks. The trees in each stand consist of some plastic palm trees and low plastic shrubbery I ordered from a Chinese seller on Ebay for about $16. I intermixed them with some low "deciduous" clump foliage trees from Woodland Scenics and some plastic aquarium plants. The stands and bases are textured with my usual play sand ground mixture, with four circular sections left untextured on each base to accommodate four jungle stands. There's even a small log trail through one based on a picture I came across.



More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2016/01/road-to-rangoon-burma-1943-wip-jungles.html

[Hupp n at em]

Those look like they'll paint up quite nicely. 

[ancientsociety]

Well, for my first foray into building removable jungle bases, I'm actually pretty happy with the result. To make the plastic trees "pop", I drybrushed the tops of the leaf canopies with lighter shades of green. The juxtaposition between tall, vibrant palms and low, leafy evergreens really evokes the feeling of thicker jungle without cluttering each base with foliage that would make them a problem to maneuver troops through.



More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2016/01/road-to-rangoon-burma-1944-completed.html

[Marine0846]

I like your jungle.
Interesting idea about thick jungle.
Will try some of your ideas when I make some more.

[d phipps]

Very nice! 

[Rob_bresnen]

Nice terrain.

[Mason]

Brilliant!
 

I have saved that for future reference.
 

[fluffy05]

Stunning work!

The terrain certainly looks amazing 

[Belgian]

Excellent, would you mind sharing the exact names of the palms you bought and the ebay seller as they look stunning!

[ancientsociety]

Excellent, would you mind sharing the exact names of the palms you bought and the ebay seller as they look stunning!

There's a link to the seller in the first post. Unfortunately, I don't have the names of the exact trees any longer.

[marianas_gamer]

Great work!
LB