We all know today, how important a balanced diet is to a good and therefore enjoyable life. One aspect of this when growing up was constantly being encourage to eat my greens. Well to enjoy wargaming you must also enjoy a good diet; research, figures, painting, rules and terrain.
Trialing the new Rapid Fire quick play rules”RF Reloaded” using the included scenario I soon realised that I needed more greens, or hedgerows. This will balance out the diet of the game; rules, painted figures but poor terrain.
So today in a couple of hours I made 12 foot of hedges, suitable for 20/25mm miniatures.
Materials.
- 6″ tongue depressers
- Hot glue gun
- Rubberised horse hair / coir
- Brown spray
- Spray glue mount
- Light,mid,dark green scatter flock
- PVA glue/water mix(25/75) in atomiser.
Process
- Tear coir and glue to depressors using glue gun.
- Spray brown
- Once dry to touch spray coir with spray glue mount.
- Gently sprinkle a very small amount of you light green choice of flock
- Then a slightly heavier dusting of your mid choice
- Finally a heavy covering of dark choice
- Knock off excess
- Once glue is dry, spray with a pva water mix, that will hold all in place and increase strength and durability for play and storage
- Option – add in trees. I use Rhododendron cuttings for tree trunks. Hot glue to base add coir canopy and treat as per hedge. If too tall can be unstable so add a few stone rocks to base or in my case put pin through base that can be pushed into polystyrene boards or foam mats under cloth.
Got so into it I forgot to take photos on the way but hopefully the process is straightforward enough. Here are the finished items.
The Think Tank 