From MartinC - I Built a Forest (120pts)

 So another challenge draws to a close, and its been another good one. I've painted loads of Bloodbowl teams, 9 I think, and some random other stuff. Somehow I have more stuff to paint than I started with, bet I'm not the only one. Many thanks to my wonderful minion, you've been great mate.

I thought I'd close with one for Byron, he obviously doesn't have enough to do.

Like all wargamers terrain can be a nightmare, my collection of trees is mainly rubbish. Old, tired and tatty, kinda like their owner. Whilst playing a game a couple of weeks ago, 28mm Naps, we had a damascene moment. You could built trees using expanding foam. So I bought some tree frames, Woodland Scenics. These are ok and flexible. So I bent them into the required shapes. Once ready I sprayed expanding foam onto the frames.

Gravity is not your friend, I tried a couple of different ways to do this but both gave the same result. Too much foam.

Luckily it is easy to cut and crave

Cleaning up the base gives a nice canopy effect

Paint with cheap acrylic paint

Paint with PVA, spray glue would work better, or melt the foam. Then cover in scatter, i used 4 different colours of this and blended them together incrementally to give different colours 

Finally do loads of them. I think they look good, and suitably random. 

So they are 28mm scale and took me about a week to do them. I think they are about the same effort as a 28mm foot figure. So

24 trees x 5pts = 120pts

Have great year everyone and I'll see you for the voting. Obviously it is going to be a bloodbowl year

 

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This is a great idea for trees and should hold up great over time without getting damaged too much from packing and moving them.  Being 28mm scale I have to assume they are fairly large and will therefore go with your suggestion of 5 points per.  Great job Martin.

 

- Byron