Making 28mm olive trees (part 2)
Following on from last week's post, I have now finished my attempt at 28mm olive trees. These are the four trunks I made earlier, undercoated dark green, over-brushed dark brown, dry bushed with a mix of dark brown and light grey.
The foliage is Woodland Scenics fine leaf foliage which is pretty great stuff. Having said that, it was a pain to glue on, and it remains to be seen how robust it will be with use.
Bases were done with the same AK Interactive sand and tufts that I've used on other scenery and model bases to give a sense of uniformity.
I also took a couple of branches of the WS fine leaf foliage to make some olive saplings starting to emerge from two of my ruined building bases.
This is now the extent of the scatter terrain being made specifically for this project. I've two more buildings and some rocky outcrops ready to undercoat and then I'll start looking for a 2' long section of city walls. When required for the specific scenario, my lad has a wooden Trojan Horse model that he got when we visited the site a couple of years ago that scales almost too well, so that is a no brainer.





Those look nice! I echo your concern about how durable the flocking will be at staying on the tree. That's why I've always been scared to try those flock them yourself packages or projects. Crossing my fingers they are gracing your table for many years!
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DeleteThe trees look great, and dare I say it, inspirational. Agree about the fragility of the flock foliage though, from experience. What glue did you use?
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark. I used a combination of superglue, for initial adhesion, and PVA/wood glue for longevity. Fingers crossed!
DeleteGreat looking trees and a really interesting piece on how they were made.
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