| Jon Sutherland | 04 May 2014 6:29 a.m. PST |
With our 2014 wargaming season looming, I managed to persuade Diane (Miniature Wargames Wargame Widow and my wife!) to make me some more jungle and other greenery for our Darkest Africa games. The following are mix of aquarium plants and pot pourri items hot glued to CDs:
Elephant grass, samples of astro-turf on mdf:
Cultivated plants:
Larger jungle pieces with palms:
Now I need to convince her to make me some fences for ACW…. |
| EricThe Shed | 04 May 2014 6:57 a.m. PST |
they look fabulous – can never too much jungle |
| Jon Sutherland | 04 May 2014 7:01 a.m. PST |
Too true ETS – I've got double that over in Crete already, but with 45 x 6 foot to cover, as you say you can never have enough jungle. |
| Gonsalvo | 04 May 2014 7:49 a.m. PST |
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Dr Mathias  | 04 May 2014 9:46 a.m. PST |
It certainly is nice to be able to fill a table with jungle and or tall grass. Nice work! |
| Some Chicken | 04 May 2014 11:23 a.m. PST |
Your Bananarama CD collection must have taken a right hammering Jon! |
| Jon Sutherland | 04 May 2014 12:17 p.m. PST |
That and my Rick Astley and Bros CDs….. |
| elsyrsyn | 04 May 2014 12:23 p.m. PST |
Those look great. Oh for the days when there was an AOL CD in practically every day's mail. Doug |
| Jon Sutherland | 04 May 2014 1:21 p.m. PST |
Someone told me to put a request to the local recycling schemes and ask for CDs and DVDs – apparently they got swamped with them. |
| James Wood | 04 May 2014 3:00 p.m. PST |
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| kallman | 04 May 2014 3:54 p.m. PST |
Nice, my only critique is the over use of the CDs for bases which created an all too regular footprint. Regardless, I am envious as I need about that much to run my Darkest Africa games. |
| Skeptic | 04 May 2014 5:49 p.m. PST |
Nice stuff! Where did you get that astro-turf? |
| Jon Sutherland | 04 May 2014 11:07 p.m. PST |
Whitemanticore – I agree to some extent, but its essentially a free resource, quite robust and doesn't tend to warp either. If you place several of them base to base, you do lose the circular look,
Skeptic – a bit naughty really, I emailed several companies that supply it and asked for samples…. |
| Cambria5622 | 05 May 2014 2:28 a.m. PST |
The jungle etc does look good. Will there be an article showing more detail in MWBG? The continuing tales of a wargames widow is my favourite section of the magazine; the articles always give me inspiration even if I don't actually make something like the featured item! |
Joes Shop  | 05 May 2014 3:59 a.m. PST |
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| Jon Sutherland | 05 May 2014 6:10 a.m. PST |
Thanks Cambria5622, Diane did an article about jungle terrain on CDs in an old issue of Battlegames. She'll be delighted you like her articles. |
