"6mm Burmese jungles" Topic

Getting into 6mm gaming, need to build a jungle. I already bought a couple of mats of aquarium grass for those kunai grass fields.

Next up I need some basing materials for trees and bushes. Does MDF board do the job well, or is there something else I should try? I was thinking of using modeling clay to create banks of cliff and put some lichen on it to create an underbrush.

Are there any links to finished 6mm jungle projects availabe? Maybe 15mm would do too due to the scale differences of jungles themselves.

MDF is fine for basing. Since you are using 6mms, use the thinner variety and – using a jig saw – cut at an angle to avoid the appearance of man-sized 'steps'.

I'd use Woodland Scenics clump foliage rather than lichen. It simply looks better.

The aquarium aisle is your friend, as is the artificial plant section of a craft store.

Be careful not to overdo the palm trees – they tend to be found around settlements and along watercourses, but if you go any distance into the jungle it's almost entirely dominated by massive hardwood trees.

Yeah I bought 3-6cm (IIRC) "normal" trees to use in the deeper/larger sections of jungle. These should be big enough considering the scale of infantrymen.

I lack some stuff for the ground cover inside the jungles (maybe I'll use some tea) for paths, and I don't have enough clump foliage yet but I'm getting there. I need some roads for those tank battles, but I don't know yet how I'll go about doing them.

I think tea would be to large for 6mm. You might try a fine light brown sand for your roads and trails.

Hi,
A tip for easier cutting of thin mdf, if you want the edges sloped. Problem with a jigsaw is the dust it creates.
If you cut the mdf at an angle with a craft knife, it cuts fairly easily. Trying to cut it perpendicular to teh surface is hard. Do it in a controlled way to avoid slippage and cutting yourself.
Use one of those cheap knives with an extendable blade which you get in packs in pound stores here in the UK, and I guess dollar stores in the US. Scalpel blades would be more likely to snap.

For paths in 6mm I'd be tempted just to use brown paint. 6mm leaf litteris going to be pretty fine.

Al

Dom is correct. Palm tree addiction is an epidemic among wargamers, thanks to Hollywood, but you rarely see them in rural areas, apart from along water courses and on coconut plantations.

link to this topic on my blog.

Useful observations on your site HistoryPhD. I'm guessing the same applies to Burmese jungles, at least that's what I'm going for. I've yet to buy a palm tree :)

All of Southeast Asia looks pretty much the same

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Here is a picture from Guadalcanal. It is mostly palm trees. ben

Yes, but the topography of the islands of the SW Pacific is dramatically different than that of mainland SE Asia

I did some as a commission here in my photobucket page

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I made the river banks separate so you could vary the width of the rivers and it is better for storage. My other tip is to paint the plastic plants otherwise they look like plastic plants!

Contact me direct if you want more info

Cheers
Kieran

Lovely work as ever, and exactly where the palm trees belong for south-east Asia.

Good looking stuff.