Re: [SGII], [DSII] Can't see the forest for the....

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From: "John Crimmins" <johncrim@voicenet.com>
> The jungle trees are on individual bases: that's coming to an end. 
They
> fall over at the drop of a hat, it's a pain to place them all, and AOL
has
> considerately sent me a whole bunch of free bases to work with.  In
> addition, I've picked up some more normal trees (meanr for model RR
use)
> which are going to get the same treatment.

A useful source of exotic-looking vegetation are plastic terrarium and
aquarium plants. Usually quite large, but can be chopped up into
convenient
pieces.

Also crafts shops have "plants" used for all kind of flower arrangements
etc. Some make interesting alien vagetation next to a 25 mm soldier.
>
> DSII, I've been making do with pieces of lichen on top of green felt. 
It
> works, but it doesn't look all that good.  I've got some bumpy
chenielle
> ready to be chopped into evergreens, but I'm not sure how to base them
yet
> -- bases have a bad habit of warping on me, usually several months
after
> I've finished working on them..  Any suggestions?  The AOL CDs are too
big
> for this purpose, unfortunately.

Useful stuff here is "Iceland moss" used by railroad modelers, also all
kinds of spongy flocking materials available for them.

An interesting suggestion I never tried myself is to use a piece of
transparent plasticard the siz of the wood you want, flock it on top and
around the edges, fix wire, nails or screw vertically under it. The
supports
should be high enough to fit troops under the wood's canopy.

Greetings
Karl Heinz