I WANT a boat load of scenery. I'm finding it therapeutic making bocage and trees 

Quote from: acctingman on 27 August 2016, 01:50:32 PM
I WANT a boat load of scenery. I'm finding it therapeutic making bocage and trees 

Go to the smaller scale, you can make bocage and trees till the cows come home and still not have enough. 

MickS

Quote from: Subedai on 27 August 2016, 04:29:23 PM
Go to the smaller scale, you can make bocage and trees till the cows come home and still not have enough. 

MickS

Very true, but I'll stick with 15mm. In two weeks I've already made 80 pieces of bocage and 50+ trees, so I'm making good progress 

Quote from: acctingman on 27 August 2016, 04:34:14 PM
Very true, but I'll stick with 15mm. In two weeks I've already made 80 pieces of bocage and 50+ trees, so I'm making good progress 

any pictures? 

First attempt at making terrain so go easy on me....I'm fragile 

http://i.imgur.com/LzOFLni.jpg

Looks extremely good to me! First time or no.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 August 2016, 07:16:50 PM
Looks extremely good to me! First time or no.

Thank you Ithoriel

I need to work on variety though. Vegetation never looks the exact same.

Nice!!

What diid you use as a basis for your bocage? I've seen bent chicken wire to good effect!

 

For variation a light dry brush in various light greens / almost yellows works well

Quote from: petercooman on 27 August 2016, 08:18:24 PM
Nice!!

What diid you use as a basis for your bocage? I've seen bent cicken wire to good effect!

Popsicle stick painted with cheap acrylic paint (brown). Let dry overnight
PVA glue and then lay down some small potting rocks or kitty litter (which is what I should have done....rocks are a bit smaller)
Let dry over night.
Scrap off any rocks that didn't set.
Paint the rocks with above brown acrylic paint. Let dry
Adhesive spray it and I added lichen.

I bought the lichen for trees, but I didn't like the look of it so I decided to use it for bocage. It looks crappy by itself, so I sprayed more adhesive on it and added some custom made flock (sawdust method flock).

That's it

I do want to try a flock mix and take heed of paulrs advice.....some mixed shading whether paint or different shades of flock.

I've made nearly 80 pieces now in two weeks and I can't stop making them. So therapeutic!!

*** should note that some of the bocage was made with Woodland Scenic clump foliage flocked with a finer WS flock.

so far that terrain is looking very good. Why not take some of the car off that money woman to get even more scenic items?

I Play Chain of command in 20mm for post D-day stuff, and you need loads of terrain.  I think are more buildings around for 20mm skirmish gaming as many of the smaller scales do not allow you to put figures actually in the building which is desirable for Chain of Command as you need to know were the figures are inside the building

Bocage fields would often be very small - sometimes only 40 yards across.  Chain of command gives a ground scale of 12" =40 yards.

Don't forget roads/lanes were lined with bocage so if you have two roads forming a cross over a 6 x 4 table that's 10 feet of road needing hedges on both sides - so 20 feet of hedging

You will then need hedging to form fields. So with 12" square fields that's approx. another 20 or more feet of hedge

So on the table you are proposing you will need around 80 feet of hedging.  So I suggest you aim to stat on a 6 x 4 table and build your collection up.