Author Topic: Gardens / vegetable patches? (Read 4943 times)

Charlie_ · « **on:** May 01, 2016, 02:21:51 PM »

Does anyone have any tips of tutorials for making gardens / vegetable patches?

Silent Invader · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2016, 02:59:46 PM »

Quote from: Charlie_ on May 01, 2016, 02:21:51 PM

Does anyone have any tips of tutorials for making gardens / vegetable patches?

Malamute recently posted up a very nice example for his FIW and smuggling boards

Captain Blood · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2016, 04:47:31 PM »

My version: Dead easy...

Create enclosure.
Add surface texture (sand/PVA/paint. grit - whatever mix you want).
Drag a cocktail stick through the ground-mix to create furrows.
Paint.
Stick a few rows of Woodland Scenic clump foliage along the furrows to represent cabbages, potato plants or some other growing veggies (if I was doing it now, in these days of abundantly available and luxuriant tuftage of all descriptions, I guess I might use something like Silflor 'weed tufts' as an alternative).

Simples!

Yggdrasil · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2016, 04:48:15 PM »

Easy Salad patches:

You can easily make patches by gluing sticks in rows onto a big base. then cover up everything with Sand and paint it. (EDIT: Just as Captain Blood described

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The Salad plants can be easily made of wedding-decorations (I'm using small roses made from paper. You can buy them cheap on ebay).

Easy Corn Fields:
To make easy Corn Fields you could use rough doormats. You don't even have to paint them.

Pumpkins can be made of Greenstuff. Just form a small orb and carv very thin lines into it.

Wedding-Decorations used as Salat Plants:

admiraldick · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2016, 05:03:32 PM »

not a cheap option, but definitely an easy one:

Busch make a range of plants for railway layouts called 'Almost Real' that are pretty high quality and so require little extra effort (they do cost though).

they can be found here: http://www.busch-model.com/online/?rubrik=3&show=katalog&sprach_id=en

Charlie_ · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2016, 12:38:09 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on May 01, 2016, 04:47:31 PM

Ah yes, that's the sort of thing I have visualised! Simple and effective!

Thanks guys!

Malamute · « **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2016, 05:38:56 PM »

Grass tufts, paper roses with some outer leaves removed to resemble cabbages and a box of Busch H0 00 scale vegetables for the rest.

FramFramson · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2016, 06:34:12 PM »

I too have purchased plastic roses for future use as cabbages. Great stuff!

Warren Abox · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2016, 08:13:10 PM »

Not my best work, but these 15mm fields might give you an idea for a simpler way to do it.

Those large bushy plants look fantastic, but I always worry about damage during gaming. So my fields consist mostly of obviously furrowed fields with just a hint of green shoots along the tops of each row. Enough to convey the crops, but not so much that your models will lean everywhich way when they enter the fields.

Source: http://warinabox.blogspot.com/2014/08/fields-for-battle.html

snitcythedog · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2016, 08:43:09 PM »

JTT models does paper crops. They can be a bit pricey so you need to plan out what you want. Here is an example of their corn stalks. These fields are made with fifteen packs of their corn so the cost adds up. They do several other types too.

The one suggestion that I have regardless of the crop type is to build your field so it can be removed either in sections or as a whole for troop movement.

Snitchy sends.