Hobby Lab: Making Model Gaming Trees (It’s Fast & Fun!)
June 20, 2014 by lloyd
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Not sure if there is an issue at my end, but the video freezes for me.
Lloyd – “..we have this big Cities of Death board and it kinda…” *FREEZE*
Am I the only one with this issue? I was/am looking forward to this one so really want to see it.
Cheers
Same thing here in the same spot. The video freezes but sound continues.
@cypher2009 @slatronic Yeah I see there is a problem for me in Firefox but working ok in chrome. I will update the video file, might have lost something during the upload. Will take a while to resolve will let you know when it’s sorted.
@cypher2009 @slatronic – Temporary fix – refresh the page and use the progress bar to jump 02:10 into the video past the problem area in the file.
Thanks Lloyd. That worked.
Cool. Cheers @lloyd.
@cypher2009 @slatronic @davidwolf @rayzryr – Video file updated should play fine now, let me know if it doesn’t, cheers for the help guys.
hi mate I have solved this I use google chrome browser now and has solved everything
It freezes for me in Firefox but not in Chrome.
“The video playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or beacuse the video used features your browser did not support” at the same place as the others above.
(Chrome, Win7)
Working fine here
Nice video guys 🙂
If you wanted to go an extra step – crepe bandage soaked in PVA wrapped around the wire at the base make a nice trunk
“That I don’t know what it is but it’s just great”, is called a “je ne sais quoi” (even in English). You’re welcome ! 🙂
I was just thinking I would say this in the comments but you beat me too it 🙂
Great vid, thanks guys. Will be giving this one a go soon! 🙂
When I saw you cutting up that yard brush, I thought you have got to be joking. How wrong I was. Your trees look really great. I have paid good money for trees from model stores that don’t look anywhere near as good as yours.
Excellent tutorial. How tall a tree would you suggest for Flames of War?
That was cool, I’m going to make like a tree and leaf right now for materials…
May I borrow that pun, good sir? I willow you one in return.
Great and very interresting video guys.
Thanks a lot.
Tree-mendous? Really? 😐
Lloyd’s response is classic. 😀
Lads, the whole thing is just so well polished now its fantastic. Everything that went into making Studio 1 AKA “The Cathedral” has totally paid off. Do you know what its starting to show too maybe because the old familiarity seems to be getting back into BOW right now. probably had to do a whole lot with the move and breaking the great Mojo that was there from the start but hay, point is theres been some great content recently. Viva La BOW.
Oh and thanks, Illl be making some trees now.
Oh and Loyd, just on the playability recently of Vids. Just up untill recently mine were sucky as suck could be. Green screen stopping play all the ding along whatever, It went on for the past few months. Mostly with the weekender and XL. But being the true BOW Warrior I am, I persevered. Even though it took me twice the length AND SOME to eventually get to see all of it. Happily this seems to have changed. Thanks for whatever youve changed. Ill check at some point to see if I can now watch stuff on my IPhone.
Same here, since the changes, no problems whatsoever now!
This is actually really helpful. The tree in the video is a little big for the 15mm gaming I do, but I’m sure smaller trees would be even easier. The craft store has ready-made trees, but they are hella-expensive . . . so unless I want to run an assault on U2’s “One Tree Hill” 🙂 I need a better way to make lots of trees.
Nice tutorial, but I’m missing a part near the end; how to actually base the trees. I know you tend to stick the trees directly into holes on the boards you make, but what if you wanted to make them with their own base, so you can rearrange them? What would you use to make the base? And how big/heavy would it need to be to keep the tree from falling over?
I would leave the extra wire on at the bottom instead of trimming and secure to a base. Then using modelling putty, cover over moulding earth and a few roots to hide the wire and fixings. You can use olds lotta bases or cut bits of mounting card.
Nice tutorial guys, I used to do it this way then I discovered a much quicker and easier way of making model trees. Check out my twitter account @bishmeister1 for the tutorial.
Nice one guys! I never knew trees could be made so easily…I have always bought mine, maybe its time to go looking for brooms!?
What do you attach the trees to once they are done? I’ve seen people use heavy metal washers and hot glue before.
Very nice. I am actually interested in this technique to make some 15mm scale trees (and terrain) for my local store (the trees they have are about the same height as yours in the vid), so I was wondering what sort of height you think would be good for 15mm trees?
I will be looking in Poundland tomorrow to see what sort of things they have in there for gaming terrain (its on my way to both work and my local store, and I’ve never even been in)
Just got me thinking about how much money I wasted on trees as a kid. I would have loved this and had money left over to buy more mini’s!
Inspirational video!
Besides the fun of creating your own trees, I wonder how many trees I’ve got to make before it becomes a really cost effective alternative? I guess it all depends on how cheap you can get your supplies, better start looking for sales.
Any how, that’s some good looking trees you made.
I had a lot of difficulty watching this. Very slow download and then failure.
What I did see was very interesting. I’ve made many trees in a similar manner but used ‘bottle-brushes’ rather than making my own from a broom. I will be nicking that idea. Thanks.
Tried again (a few hours later) and it came through fine this time which suggests it was a problem on my end.
Also, I used watered down PVA and brushed it on but the spray adhesive it a very good idea. The hairspray is also a great tip, thanks.
treefic episode
excellent.
thats what I see on my screen
Network error caused the video download to fail part-way