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.

My Lian Yu Jungle Terrain Thus Far

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, I've been in a bit of a painting slump, although that appears to have shifted and I'm back in full paint mode.  If cranked out most of my Trident realm army for Kings of War this week, but you can't see that just yet, only when it's done.

In the mean time here's a showcase of my jungle terrain thus far.  Calenderman added for scale.  The mat is from DeepCut Studio.  The foliage is plastic aquarium plants, mostly the really cheap ones.  The trees are from 4Ground.  The buildings (you've seen those before) are from Sarissa Precision.  The ponds I made myself, they're not amazing but I think their a good first attempt.

I plan to use this lot primarily for the Batman Miniatures Game as the island of Lian Yu.  But it could be used for other games like Malifaux and Warmahordes or even small games of Bolt Action or 40K.  Hell I could even use it for the Walking Dead (jungle edition of course).

So what would I add to this?  Definitely more trees.  Maybe another of those big leafy buggers too.  I think I could do with a couple more buildings, and I definitely need a few crates and barrels.  I'm toying with the idea of some cliffs and a stream too.