These are the final results of the forest terrain project I did, following the tutorial on the Youtube channel "Sorastro's Painting".
I made this primarily for Star Wars Legion but I wanted to make it generic enough to be used in any gaming setting. I'll also be using these in fantasy games as well as 40k games like Kill Team.
For the scale I kind of tried to ride the line between 28mm and 32mm. With natural terrain this is easier to do than with buildings because you could simply say that the trees are taller or shorter or thicker or thinner in relation to the miniatures on the table with them. It's harder to pull that off when you have buildings that have fixed doorway sizes for example which might work with 28mm but be too short for 32mm miniatures.
The actual height of the tall pine trees varies from about 12" up to about 18" and a few approach 24" for the very tallest. I like them because they absolutely tower over any 28mm battle and even tower over larger skirmish minis. like Star Wars Legion.
The only problem I had with the project was that I ran out of materials! I have more dowels and skewers for the tree trunks but I need to get more materials for the bases. If I can make maybe like five or six more bases of these it will be a sufficient number to cover like two corners of the board and give the illusion of being the edge of a much larger forest.
The shorter stands of trees below the pine trees are two of the GW Citadel Woods kits that I converted so that they have actual clump foliage on their limbs as opposed to those flat foliage pieces that GW provides with the kit.
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