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Warmaster Nice	Post subject: Trees, Jungles, Woods - the Ultimate Guide! Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:47 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:15 pm Posts: 7948 Location: Denmark	I once saw someone use the branches of those ugly plastic Christmas trees. Perhaps not the best looking trees but you could easily fill the entire table with forest from a single tree. It might improve the look of the trees if you glue flock or foliage onto them. Cheers! _________________ Sofa General Nobody expects the Inquisition!!! http://theepiclounge.wordpress.com/
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stormseer	Post subject: Trees, Jungles, Woods - the Ultimate Guide! Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:03 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:52 pm Posts: 4598 Location: Suffolk, UK.	My snow terrain uses small model pine trees, which are cheap (25p) but look very good when painted... They are about 6-8cm tall, but can quite easily be cut down due to their construction. I should be visiting my model shop in a day or two, so I'll check what brand they are then.   _________________ www.darkrealmminiatures.com
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Jimbo	Post subject: Trees, Jungles, Woods - the Ultimate Guide! Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:20 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:01 pm Posts: 3495 Location: Wessex	I use K&M trees. They are individually based, though I have based a few on multiple bases. As seen in the corner of this picture: _________________ Jimbo Felix's Gaming Pages Felix's Gaming Pages Blog Almost Always Right...
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Cuban Commissar	Post subject: Trees, Jungles, Woods - the Ultimate Guide! Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:03 pm
Purestrain Joined: Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:32 am Posts: 2934 Location: Colorado, USA	Well here are my answers to my own question? 1. How to I make trees? I explored how to make trees many different ways. ?I think I have read every article on how to make trees found on the net. ?After a couple of years I have come to conclusion that is best, for me at least, just to order pre-made stuff. ? 2. Where to I find pre-made trees?

My recommendation for finding ?The stuff trees are made of? is with Woodland Scenics; as many have recommended already. ?Please be aware that they do sell value packs that are reasonably priced.

Look under landscape, trees, ready made value packs

Also if you search for Model Railroad supplies there is a large selection of different styles. ?

I would warn that the Woodland Scenic trees do shed and sometimes need to be touched up. ?Not very hard just use some glue, they sell their own special brand but I?m sure Elmo?s (PVA) glue will work. ?Just coat the tree in glue shake it in bag of clump foliage. ? ?

3. What size should the trees be?

I use my trees for a variety of miniature games; from 28mm 40K, to 15mm Napoleonic, and of course 6mm Epic. ?

My trees range between 2-6 inches in height. ?Depending on the game, they are either soaring Red Woods or the everyday kind found in our backyards. ?

I don?t worry about the scale because just driving across the country, I have seen so many different kinds I am convinced ?it would work somewhere. Where I live I have Pines about the size of a three story building, well they are at least three time the height of my house and Eucalyptus trees grow even taller.

I would recommend a combining a variety of heights to give your woodland view a more natural feel. Regarless of scale the variety will just make it seem right. ? ?

4. How should I base my trees in groups or as individuals?

I recommend basing trees as individuals. I base them on metal washers from a hardware store. This allows me to store them in plastic containers with magnetic sheeting on the bottom to hold them in place.

The individual basing allows me the freedom to make my trees either a tight group in a forest or a string of trees along a highway. ?

For real eye candy group the trees in tightly using a variety of heights. It looks awesome on the tabletop to see actual forest. But it takes a lot of trees to achieve this effect. ?

More often I just spread them out to fill in the general shape of a woodland area. With most of my opponents it not a big deal that the border is not perfectly defined. I just ask, ?Is he in??

If I had to, I would either use felt or simply cut shapes out of balsa wood and flock them, using a different color from the main board. To make the boundries of the woods.

My final thought is this: If I had to do it all over again I would choose the Desert as my primary terrain table. I wouldn?t need trees then! ? ?

Take care!