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
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).
You could also try Timecast
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 (https://gsminipaint.wixsite.com/gsminiature-workshop)) or Terrainshed (https://terrainshed.co.uk/ (https://terrainshed.co.uk/)), etc.
see http://les1940.blogspot.com/2017/11/ (http://les1940.blogspot.com/2017/11/)for a better explanation than I could give.
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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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 :).
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 !
Quote from: Scorpio_Rocks on 11 July 2020, 06:12:47 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 (https://gsminipaint.wixsite.com/gsminiature-workshop)) or Terrainshed (https://terrainshed.co.uk/ (https://terrainshed.co.uk/)), etc.
see http://les1940.blogspot.com/2017/11/ (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.
Quote from: ronan on 10 July 2020, 11:55:37 PM
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
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 :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 July 2020, 06:40:37 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
They remained in "purdah" for a fortnight to be sure :)
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.