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Cant see the wood for the trees
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About the Project
This will be a journey in making affordable trees in approx 28mm scale for use in table top wargaming. To start i am going to show examples of trees to give an idea of what i am aiming towards with regards to realistic trees, then work through to stages of how i have made the trees......this make take some weeks as work and the time i can take over the dining room table keep getting in the way. This project is also an exercise in using materials avaliable without going and buying loads of additional stuff in order to make realistic hard wearing trees for the table top.
Related Game: Kings of War
Related Genre: Game Aid
This Project is Active
Stage 1 construction
Once all of the insulation from the wire has been stripped the real fun begins. a word of warning if you have soft hands this next bit will make your hands/finger sore. Gather together as many strands of the wire as required…I used three lengths….how long is up to you the longer the strands the taller the tree for a guide as you will be folding these in half to twist together cut to approx twice the height you are aiming on making.
Once gathered together fold in half and twist the folded end tightly together to form a trunk…this will leave a loop of wire at the bottom.
Separate in to other parts to then make the main core branches, twist, separate again gradually forming smaller and smaller branches.
At this point i would like to point out that You tube is a wealth of information as to the technique for making this kind of tree giving much better instruction than i could ever hope to emulate so go check them out for a more detailed example.
proto type 1st attempt at twist treeclose up view of bark/woodland
example tree 3
Materials used
three core electrical wireSo following the idea of using item i already have, the wire used was from a length of cable left over from a DIY /replacement of old wiring for an electrical appliance where the cable had frayed. Like for like so no issues with wrong stuff used.
The first attempt at making cheap realistic trees for war gaming
example tree 1
example tree 2First pictures to show the inspiration I have used for this project to get some idea of what I hope to achieve as an end result.
