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15mm/6mm Woods (WIP)

Good bye to green felt templates!  I ended up with a scrap piece of 1/4" ply wood from some home remodeling.  And while I had an urge to do some buildings for 15mm, I haven't been playing a lot of 15mm gaming lately.  So, I decided that some woods would work for both 6mm (Dirtside 2 and Strike Legion) as well as 15mm sci fi or 15mm anceints gaming (ADG).

I started by:

  • Sketching out some rough circular shapes on the 1/4" ply
  • Cutting them out with a jig saw.  I didn't follow the lines exactly, just tried to keep near them
  • Power sanded down the edges to give them a bit of a gradual slope
  • Glued 3"(For 15mm) or 2" (for 6mm) around the edges, with one or two in the middle for support.  I mostly left them open as these are for gaming, not for display.  I need to fit the figures in there!  This was done with liquid nails.  I put about a pea worth of liquid nails down, pushed the nail in and gave it a bit of a twirl.  
Left me with the following:



From here, I brushed the bases liberally with wood glue and dunked them in a mixture of sand and gravel:



I didn't get a picture of the next step (Too excited!) of cutting the canopy templates.  But I got a piece of black foam board, and flipped each wooden base over so the nails poked into it.  That gave me a rough idea of where to cut, adding about a 1/4" to 1/2" around the holes in the foam board to get the tops of the trees.  After that, it was some FabriTack around the edges of the foam board using clump foliage.  You could use hot glue, but I didn't have any available and wood glue wasn't tacky enough.  The 


After that its just a matter of brushing wood glue on and filling the canopies in:




With the canopies done, I went back and painted the bases up with my standard colors used for basing. 


With the canopies back on:


With some epic ork tanks to give a sense of scale.  These are the 2in nail templates, the 3inch ones can be seen in the back.  The 3in work pretty well with 6mm (Just being very tall), but the 2in are a little on the small side for 15mm.  I'll have to get a shot with some 15mm troops in the woods soon.



I still need to detail the base a bit and paint the trunks of the nails, but these supported a game of Dirtside quite well!  We treated the dirt base as the extent of the woods, not the canopy.  Made it a little easier to tell who was in cover and who was out.  



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