Thursday 18 July 2019

Terrain: Dead Trees


To go along with the stumps and logs I built earlier I have been making some whole, but dead, trees to accompany them.


These are made in pretty much the same way, hardboard base, a card interior structure, cat food box card, and then Das/PVA mix.


I then painted them in the same way I had before, greys and browns highlighted with cream and then sealed with antique oak varnish.


Thoughts on the whole process now they are complete are that I probably would have had a better result with a wire base, which I have plenty of, and that the card gave a very flat effect to the outer twigs which needed to be thinner. 


So they're OK, but could have been better and I won't use card as a base again, wire next time. However when that will be .....


I will be using these in our games for the foreseeable future.





End of Tree Report:
Trunks:Fair
Boughs:OK
Branches:Could be better


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