15mm Trees (part three)

Nature repeats patterns over and over again. Does a tree look like flowers, or do flowers look like trees? Why not take advantage of this and make some really easy miniature trees. If you can wait for the …

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15mm Bridge Prototype

This bridge was originally designed to be made in 28mm. Scaling it down to 15mm was very simple since it only required a little bit of adjustment to the basic design. We plan to make …

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Experimenting with making 15mm barbed wire (part two)

Selecting the wire you will use is a very important step. If you use a single solid wire then you can get it as close as possible to “actual scale”. If you use twisted wire …

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Experimenting with making 15mm barbed wire (part one)

Making wire obstacles in 15 mm can be quite a challenge since at such a small scale the wire would actually be too small to see. How do you represent something that is too small …

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15mm Trees (part two)

Now that you have a nice flexible tree armature it’s time to paint and flock it. Flexible trees have several advantages over their more rigid brethren. For starters they are very hard to break, since …

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15mm Trees (part one)

Working with smaller-scale vegetation is very similar to their larger-scale cousins, but with a few interesting differences. It’s all about finding or making suitable armatures and applying flock to them. Some items make great armatures …

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