Background Terrain - Forested Mountains
Part 4 - Foliage
Next came the fun part – trees. I have been procuring bulk cheap hobby railroad trees from EBay. The products that arrive are pretty hit and miss and often do not quite align with their product photos, but given I got hundreds of trees for not much investment, I’m not going to complain. They all look OK when tightly packed together. My plan here was to use the smallest of the trees in an effort to bring about a forced perspective – ie the little trees appear further away, looking like they are off on distant hills, because they are in a smaller scale. Using predominantly the same small tree type, which had been acquired for this purpose, with a few others used sparingly just to add some height, colour and shape contrast, I glued and pressed into the foam well over 100 small trees. No, I’m not going to count how many I actually used but I finished two 50 tree bags and raised another 4 bags of different trees to mix things up a little.
With that done I grabbed all of my tuft grass and pre-made flowers that I use for basing, and scattered them about here and there, gluing them on just to break up the colour a little. Much superglue on the fingers ensued. However, with that step complete, the cliffs were done.
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