Re: Trees (was Terrain)

I use roofing nails of two different sizes and Woodland Scenics clumps
or lichen--invert the nail, paint it brown (or grey), then glue a green
clump of the appropriate shape on top.	Very cheap large trees for
1/285, small trees for 15mm, or topiary for 25mm.  And they discourage
folks stepping on the playing area, too!  What a bargain.

Rob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Crimmins 
  To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu 
  Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:21 PM
  Subject: Re: Trees (was Terrain)

      At 08:58 PM 4/9/01 -0500, you wrote:

  <<<<

      There is an excellent question. What is the best recommendation
for 1/300 trees?

  <<<<

  GHQ included a strip of bumpy chenille, which can be cut up into some
pretty nice 1/300 scale pine trees. A picture of this stuff, and the
technique for making trees out of it, can be found at:

  http://hometown.aol.com/servitor/Ogreindex/ogrindex.htm

  ...follow the Ogre Miniatures link, and then go to "Fabrication
Central". It's certainly a simple thing to make. Being appalling lazy,
though, I usually just use pieces of lichen placed atop shapes that have
been cut out of green felt. No fiddly tree stands to worry about that
way.

  John X Crimmins
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