Much of the scenery has been produced by Paul, the club's founder. He bases the scenic bits on circular bases, some of which have a semi-circular bite taken out of the side to enable them to fit together neatly. At the last club meeting, Paul gave me 10 bases he'd prepared using his normal template.
I want the woods to be fairly dense, but not so much so that you can't fit a FoW base into them. As I don't actually play FoW, there is a bit of guess-work involved! I'll need to measure a few bases next time and make some card templates to check against.
After sanding the edges smooth, they've received a coat of Dulux green paint as a base layer. The trees are Woodland Scenics plastic armatures with "clump foliage" stuck on with PVA.
I've tried to work out which trees I want on this base as a test piece.
A coating of dried tea-leaves provides the leaf-litter on the floor of the woods. The base bits round the edges will have grass to match the game boards. I've scratched the paint away to give a good key when I glue the trees in.
More to follow...
Is Paul a wizard with a saw or are these bases available commercially?
ReplyDeletePaul is a wizard with a saw! They're made from some sort of plastic sign board stuff, nice and rigid, non-absorbent so won't warp, but still soft enough to cut without too much trouble. I'll try and find out what it was called and where he gets it from.
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