"Waterloo Project: Making the trees for the "big battle"..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Jun 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
… terrain Nice project here!. "I promised to finish off this set of four "how-to" posts with how I made the trees. For newcomers please see the previous post and its predecessors for the background. Once I had mapped out the potential areas for woods and orchards and painted them in on the textured terrain, I did some rough size calculations and then took a step back rather staggered at the amount of trees it would take if I made them at a size which would look "right". The effect needed for them to be sufficiently small to look, collectively, like woods and orchards, yet large enough not to look silly when peopled by 28mm miniatures. So they would be varying heights from 2 inches to 5 inches and hence, to fill the areas, I would need something like 160 trees. For the basic armatures I still had a large number of Supertrees which I had bought in bulk from the USA about 10 years ago for my French and Indian War forests. Here is an old photo of my Supertrees in action during the 1756 risings on the Pennsylvania frontier…"
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Armand |
| darthfozzywig | 10 Jun 2015 2:39 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 11 Jun 2015 10:33 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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| Marc at work | 12 Jun 2015 4:09 a.m. PST |
Are those sea moss trees? Look good though always keen for new tree ideas |
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looks at a fast-assembly naval kit for the Age of Sail.
