Building the Old West
Time to Get out of Town
It’s time to get out of town and add some wilderness terrain to the mix. Forests and mesas seem like a good idea.
I didn’t take a lot of photos of the forests but I had some Sarissa kits that I built up. Their kits just give a footprint for the area terrain and various sized bases from 25mm up to 50mm. Once assembled I used super glue to fix some plastic tree bases onto the MDF bases. I then used some acrylic green primer from the hardware store on everything. Once dry I used PVA glue and used some Woodland Scenics flock from a shaker bottle. Once that dried I shook off the excess and recycled that. Then I used water downed PVA in a spray bottle to help seal it in place. With that done I popped the trees back into their plastic bases. The trees are also Woodland Scenics and are between 7 and 8 inches tall. They’ll be used for multiple game systems but the height was specifically chosen for Dropzone Commander as forests are a defat8 inches tall regardless of the size of the models.
Overhead view of completed forests. I may go back and add some smaller bushes or clump foliage. 
Using taller trees should make it easier to maneuver around the forest and gives a nice sense of scale too. 
I cut up some foam with a wire foam cutter to make some hills and mesas. I then used a green acrylic primer on them. I probably should have filled in the precut lines before priming. 
I used some Vallejo Desert Yellow spray once the primer dried. Some spray paints will react to foam so that’s why I did a brush on primer first. As this is insulation foam it has some pre-cut lines I’ll need to fill in. 
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