"Road To Rangoon, Building Burma in 1943" Topic
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Yourbitterpill | 22 Jan 2016 10:32 a.m. PST |
"Road to Rangoon" will chronicle my building of a Burma theater board for Adepticon 2016 BA Nationals and, later this year, a British army based in the CBI Theater. First up are some jungle stands and Type 97 wrecks. The trees in each stand consist of some plastic palm trees and low plastic shrubbery I ordered from a Chinese seller on Ebay for about $16. USD I intermixed them with some low "deciduous" clump foliage trees from Woodland Scenics and some plastic aquarium plants. The stands and bases are textured with my usual play sand ground mixture, with four circular sections left untextured on each base to accommodate four jungle stands. There's even a small log trail through one based on a picture I came across.
More pics and info below: link |
Doms Decals | 22 Jan 2016 10:44 a.m. PST |
Very nice start. :-) Bear in mind that you really want far more deciduous trees than people tend to use – palms are common at the edges of cleared areas and along watercourses, but disappear as you get any depth into the jungle. |
dBerczerk | 22 Jan 2016 11:40 a.m. PST |
Superb! All those Type 97 hulks remind me of the "Elephants' Graveyard" from the old Johnny Weismuller "Tarzan" movie. |
Legion 4 | 22 Jan 2016 2:55 p.m. PST |
Nice ! |
uglyfatbloke | 22 Jan 2016 3:03 p.m. PST |
Dom is quite right; great big deciduous trees is the thing. |
Marianas Gamer | 22 Jan 2016 4:08 p.m. PST |
Good work, and quite agree with Dom. LB |
Fatman | 22 Jan 2016 10:18 p.m. PST |
Gentlemen Please stop agreeing with Dom it makes him think he knows what he is talking about. Never a good thing. ;) Fatman Who uses far to many palm trees in his jungle. |
ScottyOZ | 23 Jan 2016 6:11 p.m. PST |
As one who lives in the Tropics I can assure you there are very few, if any, deciduous trees in the Rainforest/Jungle. Tall broad leaf evergreens are the go. Big tall thick trunk with a massive top that spreads over a wide area, with Palm trees in all their many forms (very different to coconut palms) in abundance as a low level under story and as scattered emergents. |
uglyfatbloke | 24 Jan 2016 4:55 a.m. PST |
Good point; we were very loose about terminology! |
Yourbitterpill | 31 Jan 2016 11:12 a.m. PST |
Well, for my first foray into building removable jungle bases, I'm actually pretty happy with the result. To make the plastic trees "pop", I drybrushed the tops of the leaf canopies with lighter shades of green. The juxtaposition between tall, vibrant palms and low, leafy evergreens really evokes the feeling of thicker jungle without cluttering each base with foliage that would make them a problem to maneuver troops through.
More pics and info below: link |
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