Foehammer’s Konflikted Painting Table

Ok. With my house move completed, and the unpacking nearly complete, I once again have some time to do some hobby work. Some will remember that starting a few weeks ago, I was putting together a pacific themed demo table, with he idea of an attack/raid on a top secret airfield the Japanese are using to work on new jet fighters jointly with the Germans. Give my USMC something thematic to fight over.

Latest progress was on the jungle scatter terrain to surround the airfield. These were pieces of MDF, with some beveled foam board and sackle added to add some elevation. I then glued down some sand and painted them brown. One thing I tried this time which worked well was gluing down the sand with a 1/1/1 part mixture brown paint/water/PVA glue. It adhered well, and allowed me to get away with just one paint coat afterwards. The paint also kept the PVA from loosening when the top paint coat was applied.

To cover these bases, I used a combination of various aquarium plants I bought off amazon. Most were fairly cheap, with may $20-$25 spent on the lot.

I then just glued down the varied, cheap, aquarium plants with a hot glue gun. See images below. Started with the tall plants, and worked towards smaller. Also tried to glue the bases of the plants very close together, so the leaves would hide the plastic fames/bases they were attached to.

I still need to address gaps with smaller lichen, and to flock the edges, but I unfortunately forgot my flock at home when I went on vacation this week. I also plan to make some specific bases to palm trees and bamboo growths.

Questions and comments welcome.