Hard time picking a scale

[FierceKitty]

"So..."?

[sunjester]

At the Tring Club we play Chain of Command in 10mm, 20mm and 28mm. I believe the ground scale for the rules is pretty close to 15mm and my personal opinion is that it looks and feels better in 10mm or 15mm. In 28mm everything seems too cramped together, with no space to operate properly. Strangely i don't feel that way when we play early 20th century games in 28mm, perhaps because we aren't using tanks or much by way of heavy support weapons.

But you will need a lot (LOT) of terrain, particularly for NW Europe.

[petercooman]

Ok, here's a close up of some WWI 15mm PP Belgians, which I use in company level games. This includes 15mm scenic items:

Very nice! Where did you get the cobblestone?

[Leman]

Cobblestone road is from Total System Scenic. They also do square setts. Acctingman, not knowing your age, I think I ought to admit that I have built up my collection of stuff over 50 years, so I do have access to a lot of terrain items. In the last twelve months I have been able to create a wargames room at home, as well as having access to the Liverpool club's tables and terrain. Incidentally the main building in the photo is by Hovels, the other red brick building is by Peter Pig and the stone building was a present from my brother, ready painted and sold as a Normandy school, by a company which I don't think exists any more.

[petercooman]

Thanks!

[acctingman]

I WANT a boat load of scenery. I'm finding it therapeutic making bocage and trees 

[Subedai]

I WANT a boat load of scenery. I'm finding it therapeutic making bocage and trees 

Go to the smaller scale, you can make bocage and trees till the cows come home and still not have enough. 

MickS

[acctingman]

Go to the smaller scale, you can make bocage and trees till the cows come home and still not have enough. 

MickS

Very true, but I'll stick with 15mm. In two weeks I've already made 80 pieces of bocage and 50+ trees, so I'm making good progress 

[petercooman]

Very true, but I'll stick with 15mm. In two weeks I've already made 80 pieces of bocage and 50+ trees, so I'm making good progress 

any pictures? 

[acctingman]

First attempt at making terrain so go easy on me....I'm fragile 

http://i.imgur.com/LzOFLni.jpg

[Ithoriel]

Looks extremely good to me! First time or no.

[acctingman]

Looks extremely good to me! First time or no.

Thank you Ithoriel

I need to work on variety though. Vegetation never looks the exact same.

[petercooman]

Nice!!

What diid you use as a basis for your bocage? I've seen bent chicken wire to good effect!

[paulr]

 

For variation a light dry brush in various light greens / almost yellows works well

[acctingman]

Nice!!

What diid you use as a basis for your bocage? I've seen bent cicken wire to good effect!

Popsicle stick painted with cheap acrylic paint (brown). Let dry overnight
PVA glue and then lay down some small potting rocks or kitty litter (which is what I should have done....rocks are a bit smaller)
Let dry over night.
Scrap off any rocks that didn't set.
Paint the rocks with above brown acrylic paint. Let dry
Adhesive spray it and I added lichen.

I bought the lichen for trees, but I didn't like the look of it so I decided to use it for bocage. It looks crappy by itself, so I sprayed more adhesive on it and added some custom made flock (sawdust method flock).

That's it

I do want to try a flock mix and take heed of paulrs advice.....some mixed shading whether paint or different shades of flock.

I've made nearly 80 pieces now in two weeks and I can't stop making them. So therapeutic!!

*** should note that some of the bocage was made with Woodland Scenic clump foliage flocked with a finer WS flock.