Moving on from the massed construction of trenches which started last year I now have many stretches of sand bagged fortifications, so the next stage of the project is some trees.
What? Why trees?? Well my intention is to do a game based upon some of the fighting on the Somme in 1916 that took place in the various woods. So I needed a load of trees without foliage. Shell blackened stumps might have been in order, but as the trees and undergrowth did provide cover at various stages I thought something with a little bit more shape would be in order.
I tracked down a bag of 70 x 6cm trees without foliage on ebay. Mine for £11.22 including postage, all the way from China. The first package got lost in Coventry, but they sent me a replacement that arrived in about four days. These are intended for plugging into a model railway board, so they need basing. A bit of experimentation (and advice) got me to affixing them in little squashed blobs of Das Pronto, glued to pennies and then setting with some superglue.
I've done a batch of 14 (that's 20%) to get an idea of how they'll look on the table top.
Here they are, defended by the dastardly Hun.
They've probably got too many branches, which I guess I could pare down should I choose to, but they look suitably bleak without.
As you can see they're for use with hexes. Currently I'm going for one tree per hex, but I'm open to varying the number to make movement more difficult depending on the number of trees. Possibly linked to using some period flavour playing cards which I was given as a present by Phil probably 10 years ago:
More in due course, no doubt.
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