Jungle fiever!

Hi, finally I'm posting again! The infamous internet problems are finally solved and the results of my exams were positive! So what have I been doing lately? Well, I was caught by jungle fiever and because of that I constructed more jungletrees and scrubbery! The following jungle pieces were constructed in the same way as described in other posts of the jungle terrain-label. The total construction time of all these bases? Again 1 hour (divided among several days).

Close-up of some of the bases.

Another close-up of the other bases.

All the bases together! With these bases added to the collection I almost have enought jungle to cover my table!

Greets,

Some terrain,...

Hi, here's some progress on my colonial/VSF terrain. Currently I'm building the following terrain pieces:

- British fort

- 3 jungle trees

- Some bushes

- The riversteamer "the queen of Argyll" sandbags and upperdeck added

- Shanty town (15-20mm) now with some hardboard bases

Here's my British colonial fort, the fort is entirely build out of wood. More specified, twigs, wooden sticks and lots of woodchips. The fort is based on a soft sort of hardboard which can easily cut with a metalplier.

The fort isn't based on real colonial forts but is just a kind of blockhouse with an exterior artillery emplacement. The fort exists out of 3 levels, the floor, second level and flat roof of which there are two playable. The exterior artillery emplacement is walled with some twigs I've sawn to the same size.

The basic construction.

The side of the fort with firing holes.

A photo with some plastic 28mm British who are manning the outer defense line of the fort, this place will be used to place some artillery, gardners or gatling guns.

And at last some new jungle trees, you can never have enough of them! Here you can see them in the first fase of construction, twigs just glued to their hardboard base and textured with fine white sand. The most difficult stage of making these trees is to find the right shaped twigs! Now my special twig stash is used up.

Greets,

Jungle terrain (15-28mm)

Here's another post about my jungle terrain! Nothing new, but just some pictures of all my junglestands together.

Greets,

Vietnam 1/72 (part II)

Here are some randomshots of my jungle terrain, this is named Vietnam terrain but you can use these jungle pieces to represent jungle areas all over the world, from Africa to Central America.

On this picture you can see a bombed piece of jungle. You can see my news modular rocks which were simply made of polystrene and textured with sand. These rocks weren't flocked because they must prove service in every sort of terrain. You can also see my older pieces of terrain, this piece in the front of the picture has a base of MDF and was textured, flocked afterwards. The long grass was achieved by glueing broom bristles on to the base with a hotgluegun. The last new terrainpiece on this picture is the piece of wood which has a really interessting shape, i use it to represent some kind of huge fossilised treeroot?

On this picture you can see one of my bargain buys, this buddha was bought for only 0.50 eurocents on a local fleamarket. He was already painted and weathered however his nose is broken off this is a really nice central piece for an oriental game.

Other pieces on this picture are older like the trees and the jungle for more photos check the archive. On the table himself you can see a mixture of pineneedles and other forestmaterials these were gathered by my on a holiday in the Ardennes. (also gathered 5 kilo of rocks, pineapples attacked by squirrels :P ideal for making palmtrees!!).

I hope you enjoyed this small article,

But stay tuned more will follow,

Vietnam 1/72 (part I)

Here some photos of my vietnam terrain, more photos will follow soon (the batteries of the digital camera were empty)

This is a my US base (barracks and garages).

These barracks/ garage were made of 2 halfcirled bits of cartonboard and corrugated cardboard!! dead simple to make and fast to. I only needed 15 minutes to make, paint, and add some rusteffect.

In front of the picture you can see my watchtowers also simply to make only (10 minutes each for the creation and 10 minutes for painting). on the picture you can also see my jungle terrainpiece with homemade palmtrees.

The palmtrees were made with wire, some pieces of brown rope and some aquarium plants purchased in a local pet shop for around 4 euros (50 leafs that's 0.36 euro for 1 tree).

1) First you cut a piece of wire length: 7 cm.

2) Then you attach the leaves (4 or 3 for 1 tree) on the wire with a hotgluegun or some tape.

3) After that you cut a piece of brown rope long enough to cover the entire wire and you glue the start of the rope were the tree starts.

4) Now you must twist the rope around the wire untill it totally covered.

5) As last you paint the rope brown en you drybrush the brown with a lighter brown.

And as last picture you can see my scratchbuild vietnam hooch with some jungle terainpieces

For larger pictures just press the photos,

Stay tuned more will follow,...

- WIPS with pictures for the palmtrees and jungle trees

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