"Jungle effect for 15mm figures" Topic

Hi all
I've to base up a lot of 15mm figures on jungle covered bases . The bases are 40mm x 20mm . And on these there are 4 figures , so the amount of space is limited for foliage.
And suggestions for foliage that gives an overall jungle effect?
Cheers
J

Aquarium plants – esp tall willowy ones

Ok .. that's a good start … what about ground coverage ?

Do bear in mind that the figures need to be easy to identify. Especially if what they are carrying(weaponing) makes a difference to the game play.

Maybe make the bases as a plain crucifix with a figure on each arm. This would give a "patrol" look.

The "danger" of putting a lot of scenery on the figure base is that it might look odd when the figures are on a road, bare hill et al.

martin

This was the way I did it.

Now bear in mind this site was some 20+ years ago!

For ground cover, I used brown paper. Cheap, light, you can write on it, easy to get and easy to dispose of.

Example:

My very old how-to page might be of help:
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Examples:
Low-cost plant (Free):
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This is mostly just to use up some scraps, but it makes the point that the floor of a Jungle is mostly rotting plant bits.
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This was going for a Sci/Fi freel, again almost free:
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Here some cheesy dinasour toy plants with some work will look fine:
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One good lesson from this was to avoid regular shapes, the wooden puzzle pieces really worked out well to provide a wild area feel on an otherwise blank ground mat.

I would recommend making the figure bases fairly free of jungle effects but use cheap plastic palm trees, plastic topiary and aquarium bits to create the table's jungle look. That's how I plan to tackle 10mm Vietnam.

Maybe a very coarse green flocking. Dry brush assorted colors.
I would not go higher then the waists of the troops.
If your patient you could use clump flock.
Good luck and post how you did it.

Oh dear this is gona be a lot more difficult than I anticipated………

I just used a medium green static grass boend for the actual infantry bases. I added some Gamers Grass shrubs to vary the height of the various vegetation. You can see my bases for 10mm here: TMP link

As for the table itself, I don't think you really need to cover the whole gaming area…some various scatter or clusters of jungle vegetation should give the appropriate feel.

You're just talking about the bases, right? A few options come to mind:

(1) Paint the bases brown. You're done.

Not elaborate enough? Next option:

(2) Put some brown textured stuff on the bases (Vallejo paste, maybe). Dry-brush it with a different brown. You're done.

Still want more? Try this?

(3) Put some brown textured stuff on the bases (Vallejo paste, maybe). Paint some different brown and/or gray irregular areas. Dry-brush with a third kind of brown.

This is as much as I would do at this scale for this theme.

A different direction:

(A) Paint each figure's base brown. Glue them to a transparent unit base. You're done! At 15mm, it's not cost-effective to detail a single figure's base with multiple colors, tufts, etc.

I usually just flock the bases with Woodland Scenics. I have added some used dry tea leaves to the flock. This gives a little more depth and keeps the bases from looking like the Parade Ground.

Ok … I'm going for the majority dry brush various shades of brown.. ( my usual ) then tufts .. various colours ( might need some bright green ) then occasionally little detail with aquarium plants and fallen tree trunks etc ..
If I can I will post some pics
Cheers
J

I would use some ground up black tea leaves or various other types of tea. The maybe add a few leaves and a little flock, but the jungles that I have been in in central Brazil have a lot of fallen foliage that has turned brown and just a few plants as very little direct sunlight gets to the ground.