Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Separating the wood from the trees...

These are my initial attempts at trees for my wargaming terrain. These are bare and autumnal, on muddy bases painted with GW Stirland Mud. These are done in a similar way to a few tree bases I did for my desert / South Africa wargaming forces a couple of years ago.

I used a big pack of plastic trees for railways from my local model shop. They consisted of around 4 different tree designs with bendable branches, which all slot into tree trunk bases. After a bit of bending and snipping, I used the bases blu tacked to my usual milk caps to hold my trees still for painting. The trees themselves had coats of generic black acrylic, GW Rhinox Hide, a dry brush of GW Steel Legion Drab, followed by inking with Agrax Earthshade.

The bases I used came from discarded Zvezda Samurai gaming bases. I used blu tac and liberal paint coats to seal in the tree bases to them. After Stirland Mud coats I simply pegged in the loose trees and voila, a few trees to start off some woodland. Huzzah!

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