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Post by deraltefritz on May 29, 2020 11:42:46 GMT
Dear Forum
What is the latest thinking on trees, hedges, bushes and other foliage? Old school Lichen and pipe cleaners, metal terrain features from Irregular or printed 3D?
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Post by bayernkini on May 29, 2020 12:22:18 GMT
i using the foliage / pipe cleaner variants, which are the most flexible and cheapest way in my mind.
Here my "pipe cleaner / chenille wire"conifers
And here my deciduous trees variant with small bolts and foliage
My "fruit trees" variant with small pompons
and stripes with foliage trees/cops, made with brown silicone
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Post by deraltefritz on Jun 2, 2020 20:19:44 GMT
The screws are a good idea but what are you using as foliage as LICHEN comes out too big.
Scouring pads (the green plastic ones used for washing up) can be teased out to make a fluffy material and SISAL which is a kind of hemp grass can be used with twisted wire trees.
Was going to look at drying out moss which grows on our roof to see if that could be used as a mat material.
Seafoam as the tree structure covered in flock might work but tends to be used for larger scale modelling and railway modelling trees.
I estimate that 2mm (1:900 scale) trees should be between 1cm and 2 cm tall ie. up to 20 metres or 60 feet high
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Post by oldskirmishman on Jun 3, 2020 18:13:30 GMT
Mr. Fritz......you can use Woodland Scenics Foliage Clusters [not Clump Foliage] and just tear off a piece big enough for what you need. Works pretty darn good.
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Post by deraltefritz on Jun 4, 2020 4:01:15 GMT
That looks like good advice as the crumb size on Foliage Clusters looks smaller than in Foliage Clumps. I did find this YouTube video on making your own Foliage Clumps material from a variety of foam materials, the main advantage that I can see if that if you make your own you can colour it to match your other scenery or even have Autumnal colours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRp4SFkmpAThe thing that makes me chuckle is his pronunciation of the word "follage" |
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Post by elenderil on Aug 4, 2020 16:07:39 GMT
In 2mm (and 6mm for that matter) 'canopy' woods work well. Cut a piece of felt and a piece of card to the same shape. The felt will form the footprint on the table and the cardboard becomes the woodland canopy. I scrunch up some aluminium foil and glue it to the cardboard to give some variation in height. I then glue Woodland Scenic clump foliage to the foil and wrap some of the foliage around the edges to hide the edge of the card and create the eaves of the wood. I then glue a few short lengths of matchstick to lift the canopy off the ground a bit, just enough to allow mounted troops to sit underneath. If there is fighting in the wood lift the canopy and use the footprint to show where the woods are. With the canopy on it is quite possible to forget troops are in there which nicely simulates troops getting lost in dense woods or deciding it's safer in the woods than out in the open!
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