“Fire in the hole!” - time to kick some ass!

[Digits]

The wash, simply makes them a bit less uniform.  I don’t intend to paint the top of the canopy, it will look fine once it’s been left to “bleach” on my window ledge for a few months!  Sand next....



Whilst I’m at it, I thought I’d do a test stand of the plastic palms.  They look fine to me though I may place more scrub on a few bases as I do them.

[has.been]

Bamboo is looking good.

[Digits]

Cheers fella.  I’m sat watching millionaire whilst sanding the first three bases......not so easy , I perhaps should have watered down the pva first to get it to run between the stalks.

[Digits]

There you go, my first finished piece.  The leaf litter really helps I think and I’m sure is more realistic....stops it being boring around the base.  Otherwise the temptation would have been lots of undergrowth....maybe ott and I want to be able to place figures.



I just ordered some monkeys and a tiger from Gringo.....should look very atmospheric.....

[NickNascati]

really nice work.

[Sparrow]

Hi Digits

Looking good mate!

Ian

[Ultravanillasmurf]

ery nice.

[Digits]

Cheers guys, glad you approve.

I should get the other three pieces finished tonight. 

I have been thinking how to make a bamboo covered hill piece too.  I think it will need “stepped” pieces of cut place mat upon a stepped hard polystyrene base hill, pre drilled and “planted” before glueing each into place, the overall piece with rocky outcrops and a discernible track through it.  Ambitious but doable I think.   One for the future anyway.

I still have three / four bags of bamboo so another pair of bases to be built I think. 

I was I i initially thinking of a crafted table with built in river and paddy fields you saw at the outset of the thread..,.,but space these days is a premium so I am going to be making separate piece paddy fields etc to be placed on a gaming mat.  I have a few ideas how to make the paddy fields look good without standing tall.  Likewise I will have to make a river too....far to much to be done yet....

Meanwhile, I also just want to paint a few minis.  At least now I will have a backdrop for their pictures!

[Digits]

Really chuffed with these.  All four finished.  Now for a mini or two.l.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Your bamboo project looks great - well done

[carlos marighela]

The bamboo thickets are excellent. I must buy some of those. My challenge is trying to work out what to use for a rubber plantation.

[carlos marighela]

Oh and a handy site if you fancy extending your botanical range.

http://vietnamcoracle.com/plants-flowers-trees-of-vietnam/

[Digits]

The bamboo thickets are excellent. I must buy some of those. My challenge is trying to work out what to use for a rubber plantation.

I used to drive through rubber plantations in Cameroon, West Africa.

Tallish straight trunks, not too heavy a canopy,  trunk whiteish in colour (think silver birch) spiral cuts in the bark at waist height and cups (often coconut halves) to catch white sap. 

Thanks for the comments guys. 

[Hupp n at em]

The bamboo thickets look great! What did you use for the leaf litter?

[Legion1963]

Indeed. Digits. Wellcome to Da Nam! Personally i think that those miniatures from TAG are the best (and yes i did buy many of their stuff form the up country range) although there has been a recent influx of new ones from several companies.
As far as terrain is concerned i chose to go modular. It makes the terrain look less real (but it is not real it's in scale so why bother with 'real') but you have so much more flexibility in making different terrain on the same gametable.
Good luck and remember .... the most important thing is to enjoy & have fun. ;-)