Terrain for pulp Alley’s The Hollow Scenario – Part 2

On to Part 2 of the board for the Hollow:

I thought that some dead trees would be perfect to go on the board.

After looking into making some from scratch & realising that I would like at least 15 trees to be on the table, I soon discounted that idea !

Next I had a look at what was commercially available & the ones that I thought were the best value were the Woodland Scenics tree armatures, the pack I found had around 25 trees in it for £21, so at about 84p each isn’t too shabby.

They are plastic with a wire armature inside & come flat, so that they can be bent into shape. There’s quite a lot of mold lines & casting points on them & they are a right pain to clean up, but when they are cleaned & twisted into shape they look pretty good. They were then glued to washers & sand added.

To paint the trees I sprayed them with Halfords Matt black primer & slapped some black Brown over the undercoat.

I added a touch of light green & field grey to the basecoat for the 1st highlight adding various light greys for successive highlights. I probably could have spent longer faffing about cleaning them up & filling gaps, but I really couldn’t be bothered!

For the plot points in this scenario there’s a Rock with a name on it, a Tree with some initials on, a Random Bloke, a Granny & a Grave Stone.

To make the rock I used some blue foam & cut it to shape

I glued it to a washer added sand to the base, undercoated it & painted it in various shades of grey

I needed a tree next, but not one of the ones that I had used for the Dead Woods, this needed to be more imposing, so I decided to try to make one, I had done tree stumps before & used similar techniques.

For this I twisted some wire to make a basic tree shaped armature & the covered it with some superglue that had gone all thick & gloopy, that bulked out the armature & smoothed all the twists.

Next I covered it in a layer of Milliput to get the basic shape & finally covered it in brown stuff & scored on the bark design.

I have tried to make the tree look like it was alive. The tree was painted in similar colours to the other trees. I decided to add a rat to the base of the tree as well.

That will do for this post, so I will finish this all off in the next post.

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