Gardens / vegetable patches?

[Charlie_]

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

[Silent Invader]

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]

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]

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 )
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]

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_]

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

Thanks guys!

[Malamute]

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]

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

[Warren Abox]

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]

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.

[Silent Invader]

About an hour of my time at Salute was spent looking for the right tuft to portray turnip leaves

[Mindenbrush]

Tajimal leafy tufts
http://www.tajima1.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=282517

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Here's mine.

http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-cabbage-patch.html

Tony

[dbsubashi]

I recently made one and laid down lines of hot glue for furrows. Then the ubiquitous sand and paint. Worked a treat.

[6milPhil]

Poppy fields perhaps?



How to... https://6milphil.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/once-you-poppy-you-cant-stoppy/