Tag: forest

We had some flowers that would make good armatures for some trees. Unfortunately they were very weak and couldn’t support their own weight. Adding some glue and flock to them as-is would have resulted in some …

Having a nice variety of trees can add a lot to your gaming terrain! For this reason we are continuing to expand our tutorials on gaming trees. These latest additions were made from readily available materials and …

Playing games in a jungle environment offers several challenges. How do you get terrain to look like it’s a jungle and still be able to play on it? Finding where that proper balance is between …

If you are wanting to make some nice looking 15mm trees really cheaply and easily then give plastic flowers a try! They are some of the best readymade armatures you will find for making trees. …

Twisted wire brush trees are another really great tree to add to your collection. Many readymade trees are based on some sort of twisted wire brush design. If you look around there is a very …

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 …

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 …

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 …

If you are tired of playing on tables that look like Earth, one of the easiest ways to get an alien appearance is to use silk flowers to make this vegetation. It also has the …

The first material we will talk about is cheap plastic utensils. They can be used to make a wide variety of alien looking plants if you use these very simple heating and shaping techniques. We …