A Brave New World
Trees
I wanted to make some trees to add height to my layout for this next scenario, so I set about making some pine trees.
As this was a wargames table and not a static railway layout the trees needed to be robust enough to take a few knocks.
I used 5mm thick wooden dowels as the truck and wire for the branches. Plumbers’ hemp string was cut down and used for the ‘pine needles’. this is a far more robust way of making trees than flocks and long static grasses glued on, and the finished product is not too bad from a short distance away.
Once that was done it was just a case of brushing each branch and bending it into shape. Then once happy, I clipped the branches down to length and used scissors to trim each set of pine needles into a nicer shape.
To paint them I spray painted them black followed by a zenith shade of brown and then various greens and sliver greys.
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