Finished trees and buildings back in 2013 on the old table! |
In the last two years these buildings and trees have stood duty from Rolica to Oporto and in the case of the trees I was gradually finding as much cluster foliage in the storage box as was actually on the tree armatures.
My trees after adding the filter material, spray painted dark green, already looking more verdant |
So I started to look for a solution to resurrect my rather battered looking tree collection in time for Talavera which requires quite a few of them. There are always lots of great ideas out on the net and in the spirit of the JJ motto "Adopt, Adapt, Improve" I went in search and found this useful idea at the 1000 Foot General blog who had obviously had a similar problem.
http://1000footgeneral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/flocktober-improving-wargame-trees.html
Test trees done, with the cluster foliage stuck on the filter material, producing a much better tree |
Once in place I started to use my new hot glue gun, and quickly became very fed up. I don't like hot glue as that molten stuff is agony if you get just a little on your hands and it seemed to take for ever.
So I reverted to using super glue to put the foliage clusters on the material and the picture above shows the finished look. However I have a box load to do as seen below!
Homework! |
When that box is done Talavera is back on track.
Have you tried spray adhesive mate ? Tesco's do one that is quite good for this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteVince
Hi Vince, do you think it would stand up to Wargamers handling?
DeleteWell it is "permanent", but I think that means permanent for things fixed to a wall or board. It is pretty durable, but I don't know how flexible it is. I think it is about a fiver, so may be worth a try.
ReplyDeleteOk I'll check it out, cheers
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