Draconis Does….. TerrainFest 2024
Tree armature test
8th November 2024
I have had a bag of Woodland Scenics small tree armatures for probably two decades now, unopened. So, I knew that I wanted to actually try to use some of them for this terrain project.
Went for one of the largest of them. Cleaned up the sprue gates and stuck it onto its base. Then I bent the various branches into a rough tree shape.
Next up it was applying the Woodland Scenics Clump Foliage (that has also sat here for years). I dug out some old superglue that had gone too thick, and using a plastic rod I wrapped threads of it around the various branches. Then I applied clumps to the glue.
The finished result looks ok.
However, there are some things I will look to change or add.
1 – Paint the armature before adding the clump foliage.
2 – Get a more suitable glue
3 – Make some larger trees somehow
4 – Consider dusting over with some slightly different coloured flock
5 – Spray the whole thing with watered down PVA to seal it.
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