Nev's Wargaming

I thought with the country and most of the  in general in lockdown I would have more time to do my hobby and blog articles, I was wrong. It would appear with a combination of medication and not actually having to go anywhere I have been sleeping more (getting between seven and eight hours sleep a night now), I actually have less time to do things. It has also taken sometime as I decided to make four different types of tree and planned to do four different articles and then decided not too, then I decided too and now I am not sure which way to do it. I am still favouring a number of articles, but that a decision for when I have made the last of the trees. I decided this week to redo the lichen trees I had been working on as I did not like how they were looking, they looked far too much like the clump foliage trees and I also nearly finished the coco-fibre trees, I have quite the forest slowly growing on my desk (by slowly growing I do not mean as slow a real forest though, or at lea...

Just a quick update this week, to demonstrate that things are moving along, if a bit slower than I would like. No completed projects recently, but I have been following tutorials on how to make fairly realistic looking trees, the project is taking longer than I anticipated. After injuring myself with my glue gun on numerous occasions the project is moving along now. I am rather impressed with how effective the clump foliage looks on the armatures. 'Growing' trees on the desk This week a new piece of Faux Fur Fabric arrived, a darker brown than before and shorter. I am hoping that it will turn out better than the previous one, I just need to find better coloured paints than I used before, this may be rather tricky considering the Corvid-19 lockdown. I will also have to find time to create the next mat between the building and painting of 300+ Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. New dark brown Faux Fur Fabric Thats about it for this week, not a lot going on and only slow...

I decided that with my Ashdown project I needed to create some nice new terrain, I have already done a faux-fur fabric grass mat so I decided I also needed some realistic trees as I have literally spent years using trees that are mass produced and pretty much look identical. I thought this was going to be fairly difficult, I kept finding blog articles and YouTube tutorials about getting wire and making my own armatures, though these look good I neither have the time or patience to make them. I discovered a good tutorial on YouTube to make realistic trees but using plastic armatures made by Woodland Scenics, and one using barbecue skewers. The tutorial demonstrated five methods of greating trees, with each type looking significantly different. The different types of trees were as follows: Clump foliage trees Lichen trees Coco-fibre trees Coco-fibre pine trees Twine trees I decided not to make the coco-fibre pine trees, the simple reason, at the time of Ashdown, there were no european ...