creating forest terrain piece

[Demi_morgana]

some time ago (about 1,5 year ago iirc ) I got some cheap trees made for games in mini scale (mechwarrior, epic, cav); I didn't have any idea what to do with them until I got seriously interested in cav;
I want to make piece of forest so artillery has a place to hide in but I'm wondering about one thing: the base
I want to place trees on rather flat base (cav models are rather short after all) but I'm not sure what meterial would be the best: styrofoam (sturodur to be more specific) is light and easy to work on but rather fragile, sheet of cork seems to be more durable but I know sometimes cork starts bending especially when there's glue on it...

any ideas? Eljot?

[ToMaZ]

Broken or old CD's + trees + sand and polyfiller (gapfiller) is what my friends and I used.

[Nameless]

PVC sheet? they can be as thick/flat as you want them to be, you can cut/phase edges so that base looks more natural, and make small holes to stick trees in it.

[Demi_morgana]

thanks for the tips guys,
CD is too small for 30 trees but PVC should to the job! I have piece of pvc but it's about 5mm thick
I think I'll drop in advert agency and as them if they don't have some pvc for devoted modeller

[ToMaZ]

You can always take multiple cd's...

[Demi_morgana]

I think I'd rather use services of Nameless' store

[Eljot]

any ideas? Eljot?

very funny, very funny Demi you malicious jester... You know I don't speak English...
very well...
at all...
...

send me mail about your modelling problems... in Polish... owkorZ

[Demi_morgana]

ok, here are 2 pics: size of CAV models and wip of wood - it's crappy but if must be functional for gaming:

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apc is almost 2cm high including the turret, trooper is ~1,2cm tall + the base

[mahon]

Either add bases to the APCs or mount infantry on thinner bases. The forest is a bit thin but better for gaming

Wanna play CAV?

[Demi_morgana]

Either add bases to the APCs or mount infantry on thinner bases.

I will base vehicles - there were no bases in blisters so i had to get molds and cast my own

The forest is a bit thin but better for gaming

I know it's thin - it looks more like a nursery than wood but there must be enough space for hex-bases

Wanna play CAV?

I've always wanted to start playing game in such a small scale, I didn't manage to find anyone here to play epic so I hope I'll achieve success with CAV