| RMIKE5D | 08 Apr 2012 4:30 a.m. PST |
What are the best scale of trees to use? |
| Mr Elmo | 08 Apr 2012 4:53 a.m. PST |
HO Scale model railroad trees are readily available and work just fine. |
| Yesthatphil | 08 Apr 2012 7:44 a.m. PST |
Big ones. Seriously, most wargame trees are too small for the scale they decorate. Bigger ones are usually more expensive but do good service. I use larger sized model railway trees with 15mm and it looks about right. You can get away with them at 10 and 25mm too. Bigger than 25mm you really have to make your own. |
| kevanG | 08 Apr 2012 8:52 a.m. PST |
I go for trees which range from slightly smaller to significantly larger than two storey buildings. |
| Grelber | 08 Apr 2012 11:19 a.m. PST |
Depends on what you want to do. Many of my 28mm Viking games are set in Iceland; so I used N scale model railroad trees as scrubby trees. For places with a little longer growing season, I use HO scale trees. These are, as Yesthatphil points out, a bit on the small side, but you aren't as likely to accidently knock them over. Grelber |
| Sundance | 08 Apr 2012 12:23 p.m. PST |
For 15mm you'd really want trees in the 2.5" to 4" range – bigger than that and they look out of scale and get in the way. You can use smaller ones for orchards, etc., as well. |
| uruk hai | 08 Apr 2012 12:30 p.m. PST |
I love big trees. Make my own and thus have no constraints. Prefer to have trees that dwarf the figures (just like real ones) rather than have them twice the height of the figures. |
| Mr Elmo | 08 Apr 2012 1:49 p.m. PST |
Seriously, most wargame trees are too small for the scale they decorate Yes, but using scale trees is nuts. If an average Oak is 70' tall, at 1/100 scale you're looking that 6" tall trees. For Flames of War? It's going to look silly on the tabletop. |
| GROSSMAN | 08 Apr 2012 1:53 p.m. PST |
I got some 2" on ebay from a company in china called "we honest" NS fast service good product and price. 500 for $30 USD? |
makes corrections when some models don't turn out the way he expected!
