Anglo Danes for SAGA

I finished my first set of trees and felt good about them. Then I read round the SAGA social media and found people recommending trees you could remove from a large base. To make it easier to get troops through. What!?

So I set about a new batch of trees that could be detatached from the main base. I used the large mdf bases again and put the trees on smaller bases, then surrounded them with Sculptamold. Otherwise the process was the same as the previous trees.

I kicked things off by making some trees. Woodland Scenics armatures pasted onto mdf bases I got from a local company.

I’d heard good things about Sculptamold so I gave it a try. It had a nice, uneven finish that made it look like natural ground. I stuck a few stones in and let it dry.

It took ages to dry. I noticed later that it chips quite easily if you leave edges proud. Annoying because you get white flecks in the middle of your paint job. I’m on the fence with Sculptamold. Not blown away by it so far.

After this I got my kids to help me paint them up. I got a mix of craft paints and mixed some earthy tones then we lathered the paint on.

After painting I flocked the bases with 4 different types of flock: dark, mid and light green along with an earth mix. Again, a good one for my kids to help with.

For foliage I attached lichen to the trees. It looks nice but was a pain to affix and I’m not convinced it’ll survive too well in a terrain box. We’ll see how it goes.