Trees ?

Started by ronan, 11 July 2020, 12:55:37 AM

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ronan

Hello
I've bought trees (some years ago) and I liked them.
I've not been able to find trees on the site. Discontinued ?
( I'm looking for ~ 20 mm and ~ 70 to 90mm trees )

thank you

Leon

We stopped selling the trees many years ago now, as it was a lot cheaper for people to buy from eBay directly.  There are a lot of options available from China (if they are shipping currently).
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 7000 products, including 4500 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints and much, much more!

Orcs

You could also try Timecast
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Scorpio_Rocks

Personally, I dislike "woods" made up of single trees on a wargames table and, especially in 6 and 10mm, use woods with a "canopy" of foliage like those supplied by GS Miniatures (https://gsminipaint.wixsite.com/gsminiature-workshop) or Terrainshed (https://terrainshed.co.uk/), etc.

see http://les1940.blogspot.com/2017/11/for a better explanation than I could give.
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monkeynut

K and M do a fairly good selection of sizes , colours and options. Not the cheapest choice I think you get packs of 12 for about a tenner. Been using these for years IMHO good quality and  they look very good on the wargames table ,but each to his own.


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Steve J

China seems to be very popular as a source of wargaming trees, based upon what I've seen on Facebook of late. I make my own from railway scenic trees I bought years ago, but then I enjoy scratch building terrain etc :).

ronan

Thank you Leon. 

Scorpio, yes one of my friends do these canopies, but  it's difficult to get the good shape for every game.

Orcs and Monkeynut, thank you.  I will search for an alternative choice : I want many trees. Lots off..

Steve, I also like home made decors, but I won't have time to do them.


So I may order trees from China (but I'm worried about the carbon footprint  :(  )  Here in France I only found very costly trees.

Thank you all  :)
Have good games and take care !

steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Scorpio_Rocks on 11 July 2020, 07:12:47 AM
Personally, I dislike "woods" made up of single trees on a wargames table and, especially in 6 and 10mm, use woods with a "canopy" of foliage like those supplied by GS Miniatures (https://gsminipaint.wixsite.com/gsminiature-workshop) or Terrainshed (https://terrainshed.co.uk/), etc.

see http://les1940.blogspot.com/2017/11/for a better explanation than I could give.

It's a good point, our modern impression of a wood owes a lot to Jungle (Attenborough) or managed woodlands.
These tend to be quite dense.
Individual trees fail to capture that look, in the way that individual figures, fail to capture a roman tortoise or Napoleonic square.

Individual trees do a batter job of depicting woodland margins, and orchards - think of them as the skirmishers of the arboreal world.

John Cook

Quote from: ronan on 11 July 2020, 12:55:37 AM
Hello
I've bought trees (some years ago) and I liked them.
I've not been able to find trees on the site. Discontinued ?
( I'm looking for ~ 20 mm and ~ 70 to 90mm trees )

thank you

Hi, I get all my trees from The Model Tree Shop.  You can them in a variety of sizes.  I use their plastic trees in 50-55mm.  They do a lot more besides trees.

https://www.themodeltreeshop.co.uk/model-railways/n-gauge-products.html

Ithoriel

I've bought my trees in bulk from China recently, via EBay. 75mm high cherry trees at £7.99, inc postage, for 20 was the latest batch. Hopefully they don't include spyware :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Orcs

Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 July 2020, 07:40:37 PM
I've bought my trees in bulk from China recently, via EBay. 75mm high cherry trees at £7.99, inc postage, for 20 was the latest batch. Hopefully they don't include spyware :)

Or Covid 19
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ithoriel

They remained in "purdah" for a fortnight to be sure :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

DaveH

I've bought a load of trees from China a couple of years ago - before that I did have a fair number of Minibits ones that Leon was selling.

I'd say the Minibits ones are better quality but the Chinese ones are very cheap for getting a bulk of trees together.