Some good looking trees there

I have some of the "roofing nails glued point up into pre-sculpted lumps of dyed foam which are then covered in flock and diluted wood glue" trees that were made a 'couple of decades' or more ago by Phil Yates and they have only needed one minor touch up in all that time

I look forward to seeing what you come up with Chalkie

The tree/woods bases I've made so far. I'm gonna need a whole lot more but it's a start...


They're all n-scale railroad trees that I bought cheap on a Dutch online auction site. Still got at least twice as many lying around so I'll do some more over time. Also considering to make some 'strips' of trees that I can either use to boost the woods or use to line roads...

Cheers,
Rob

I'm liking those tree bases Rob. Its definitely worth a search or two for second hand railway trees - you can often find some good trees at a very good price.

It might be worth basing a few trees up singularly - hot glue on coins or washers works for the wire stemmed ones. Then you have some flexibility for road sides, or just occasional trees to decorate your table. We sometimes add a few single trees just for decoration - they have no in game effect - the only ones that count within the game are ones on area terrain that count as woods.

I second Fred's suggestion, single based trees are great for 'decorating' the table.

I also agree with your idea of having some strips, tree edged roads look good and the trees break up long sight lines with out taking up space

Rob, that's exactly what I had in mind to make ( if I can ). I love those.
Thanks mate.

My guide for Making Trees and Woods hope it helps

Take care

Andy

I'll wait with the single trees till all the stuff that 'matters' on the table is done, then I'll do the extra's...
But really, there's still so much to be done on all the different projects that I don't see any extra's being done soon.
Making these was relatively easy Chalkie; just glue some ready made trees onto a base; make a landscape (I make mine with fine sand, some small rocks and diluted white glue) let it dry, paint and drybrush and then add some grass and flock, eh presto!

Cheers,
Rob

I wrote a couple of articles on on all types of terrain for MWBG No's. 388 and 389 if you can get hold of them. Again geared at 6mm but wouldn't take much to scale them up a bit.