"10mm Forests How-To" Topic

Hi all!

Well, I put up a quick "How To" for my 10mm forests… simple project, and it looks sharp!

So come on by and take a peek!:)

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They look great--and I really like your idea to use roofing nails instead of toothpicks as I did. Good thinking!

Always appreciate your game room every time I visit. Thanks for the write up. I have a 10mm ACW project I've been working on for some time. Not even gotten to the terrain yet.

thanks
Duane

Well done, and nice tutorial. I suppose it would be easy enough to make the "inside" area of the forests their own base, so you could pull it out and still have the edge be forested?

The Architects of War method does use an interior base, with the tree trunks attached to that base instead of the removable canopy. The only real advantage to not building a separate base for the "inside area" is to save time and effort when building large quantities of forest sections.

Hello Lord Ashram!

For some 35 years in 6mm we have been using plain old stick pins as tree trunks. Just stick in lots of them around the outer edge to help with the illusion of a forest. Prime them, paint them and your done. Perhaps too short for 10mm. We don't bother with putting troops under them as they are mainly for dense woods away from the action, but if required you can put units on top. Also note that you can buy all black foam boards. When I made forests like these I just used plain old white glue, works fine. I did experience some slight warping after it dried but I just bent the ends slightly without breaking them off and it worked out fine.

Best regards,

Glenn

Thanks very much for the how-to, your results look great. I am looking forward to giving these a go!

Love it!

I experimented with this last night and I must say it is easier, though messier, than it looks. I did one small clump in about 30 minutes but 10 of that was looking for the hot glue gun and the other 10 was to paint the white foam board.

Now off to buy black foam board and more clump foliage.

Thanks for the tutorial! Hmmmmm…….I THINK the wife has a glue gun somewhere in the attic.

Now….how do we make pine forests for our battles in Georgia and Mississippi?

Ghost6,

You could buy a couple bags of these pine trees. Just cut off the trunks (or stick them into the top part of the foamcore) and glue them into place. These are inexpensive enough to make a lot of forest areas.

For smaller patches, I glue them down to an old CD then paint and texture the ground area.

auction

I should perhaps have said "push pins", they are the ones with the thick plastic bodies, not straight pins. Just be careful when glueing the clumps down as the pin points come out on the top.

Ghost6 – You can use a product called "bump schneil", not sure if the spelling is correct. You buy them at craft stores, they look like wavey or fat pipe cleaners and come in dark green. Just cut them at the fat part and glue them down as you would using the clump foliage.

"Ghost6 – You can use a product called "bump schneil", not sure if the spelling is correct. You buy them at craft stores, they look like wavey or fat pipe cleaners and come in dark green. Just cut them at the fat part and glue them down as you would using the clump foliage."

Wow….I bought a crap load for brewed up tank markers….didn't think about using them!

AT Kinred….thanks for the heads up….but I actually think this look more like Georgia pines:

auction

Chenille. Bump chenille. The same stuff that comes with GHQ Terrain Maker hexes. It can be hard to find at art supply or craft stores in green although it does take craft paint well.

Two ideas to optimize your concept.

1) Use gymastic mat instead of the foamcore. It will adjust to the ground.

2) Why not turn the nails. The spiky end will be in the ground and not to see. But if you glue the nails, they all habe the same legnth. So no problem.

Decebalus, gymnastic mat isn't the same as the industrial floor mat, is it?

What a great idea…matting how about insulation matting as well….?