Forest & Hills

[timvidlak]

I put together some old school war gaming hills for my 15 mm sci-fi miniatures. I've been playing almost exclusively using terrain for urban combat most of it torn up and bombed out as I like the appearance of a war tor city for gaining to the company level engagement more than in taxi which if you play with realism you should only be using maybe a city block as city fighting is Russian roulette with six rounds in the chamber.

So I need a break and made eight individual handmade unique hills. for the trees I went to eBay to purchase around 140 trees & have recievad arround 80 and am waiting on the rest. The pictures only show the first 50 or so of the trees I got iin. they jave been mounted & base properly.

Here are some preview pics of my forest.







board I blog
federatin-empire15mmsci-fi.blogspot.com/2012/09/cant-see-forest-for-trees.html

[RuneCaster_Aris]

Very nice! I've held off buying those trees out of fear the foliage would fall off. How is your luck with that?

[jeffw75]

I make my own conifers, but all of my current broad leaf trees I bought from an ebay seller out of China named "wehonest". When you get them, yeah, the foliage is very loose. What I do, though, is make up a solution of 1 part white glue to 2 parts water, dunk the whole tree in it, and hang it upside down to dry. They've seen use on my game table now the better part of a year and I don't think I've lost a bit of foliage since.

Jeff

[RuneCaster_Aris]

Thanks for the advise!

Thinking of making a gaming table in the near future, going to keep that in mind!

[timvidlak]

the are really nice trees and I was building my Hills when I got them2 scenic cement and mixed it with water-downed Wood glue that watered-down three-part water one Part Glue & the scenic cement and mixed it in a spray bottle and thoroughly soaked the foliage and bases of the trees down. This is the last step of the assembly for the trees, after basing and spreading out their limbs. I would have probably done the same Jeff W 75 dip the trees if I wasn't working with the scenic cement and sprayer on my hills. I just wish I knew what material they are using for the leafy look. I would like to add more foliage to some of my trees, there's nothing wrong with them I just think look good