Trees and Elven Rune Stones

I've had this lot sitting about for a while now, so I decided it was time to get them finished.

The trees are from 4ground.  I mixed up a texture paint for the soil then flocked them with Geek Gaming's foam flocks.  I'll go into more detail at the end.

The oak tree

The mature oak is a really big tree.

Silver Birches

The birches are tall, but also really spindly.  I'm not sure I like them as much as the oak.

I've deliberately not glued the bases that the trees are attached to into their larger bases.  This means I can change up what's on the bases and remove the trees if a unit moves into the woods.

Elf Rune Stones

I made this as a primitive totem for my wife's Lord's of the Wild SAGA! army.  The stones are from Ainsty Castings.  The base is an old warhammer movement tray that I carved up. 

Time for the flocking tutorial.

1. Mix up a basing material for your earth.  I made mine from polyfiller, brown paint and sand.  Apply it and leave it do dry.

2. Cover the entire base in PVA glue.

3. Sprinkle your dark tone foam flock where you want your shading.

4. Cover the rest in mid tone foam flock.  By cover I mean heavily sprinkle it.

5. While stages 3 and 4 are still wet apply a light drizzling of Isopropanol (IPA).  This acts as a flow improver for the next step.

6. Drizzle (or mist on if you have a spray bottle) a mix of PVA and water.  Mix it so that it's quite viscus. 

7. While that is still wet, sprinkle your light tone foam flock where you want it.

8. Add more PVA/water mix over the highlight.

9. Sprinkle on some mixed herbs to act as leaf litter.  This also makes it smell nice.

10. Wait for the whole thing to dry.  If your house is anything like mine, then it can take a day or two.  Once it's dry it will be hard, the foam absorbs the glue.

A bit more greenery

I've been making more terrain for the club.  This time in the form of trees, actually I shrunk a few down, so technically some are bushes.  I'm going to need scale dark eldar's help for this.

These two trees are from the Model Tree Shop.  They're at the pricier end of the tree spectrum, but i thing the look damn good.  Obviously one is much larger than the other.

The rest of these came from ebay... or amazon... or both, I forget which.  These are just cheap model railway trees repurposed for wargaming.

The bases are spare bits from a mdf chemical tank kit.  I've no idea why the decided to design it so it was actually hollow, but hey, free bases.

This little lot are ready to go to their new home at the Five Arches Wargames Club.

Some Greenery

I've been building some terrain lately for my gaming club.  Our terrain collection is mainly 40k orientated.  My thoughts on this are you can't have gothic ruins in a game of bolt action, it just looks wrong.  So I built some terrain that can be used in multiple genres.  What is this wonder terrain? Hedges.  Hedges can be found on almost any battlefield from the ancient past to the far future.

Thus far I've done 14 hedges and a gate.  I have plans to do some corner pieces and another gate.  The gates are a bitch to make.  The fences are made from coffee stirrers and match sticks on mdf bases.  The gate posts are pieces of dowel.  I made the greenery from rubberised horse hair and modeling lichen.  I went for this approach rather than pan scourer hedges because I wanted gaps in the vegetation, like a real hedge.

Now that this batch is done I'll be shipping them to the club for general gaming.