Wargame and RPG Terrain Creations + Hand Painted Miniatures

Final shot of the finished Elves, Guardians of the Pen! Click to Enlarge.

Trees, Elves, Hills and MOAR!

New creations include a line of trees. I’ve been using a wire core decorative vine product for the trunk and branch armature. On that I’ve been using reindeer moss for volume and then covering in SuperLeaf scale leaves.

Beginning to end in one shot. Click to Enlarge.
Beginning to end in one shot. Click to Enlarge.

Above is an example of each stage in making a tree, from the armature, to modeling the moss, to applying leaves, to a final finished rock and tree terrain piece.

In the shot below you can see I’m trying a different type of moss that makes another sort of tree all together. It’s much more swampy looking and colorful but poses the challenge of crumbling pieces. It doesn’t want to stay together in one piece like the reindeer moss.

Tree factory. Click to Enlarge.
Tree factory. Click to Enlarge.
Trees with miniature for scale. Click to Enlarge.
Trees with miniature for scale. Click to Enlarge.
Finished trees. Click to Enlarge.
Finished trees. Click to Enlarge.

One benefit of this design for the table top wargame or RPG miniatures gamer is that the trunks of the tree take up very little footprint on the terrain surface, leaving plenty of room and visibility for your minis.

These will be added to terrain pieces and aren’t for sale individually, though if anyone has an interest I could make up a batch of them to ship out.

Here’s a quick shot of a hill WIP, experimenting with turf blends and placement.

Wargame, RPG, Table Top game terrain hill. Click to Enlarge.
Wargame, RPG, Table Top game terrain hill. Click to Enlarge.

Below is a set of Warhammer Fantasy High Elves I painted. I pick these up at my FLGS as one-off used miniatures, usually unpainted. I call these guys Coneheads.

Primed, unpainted High Elves. Click to Enlarge.
Primed, unpainted High Elves. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.

 




 

High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
High Elves, WIP shots March 2015. Click to Enlarge.
Final shot of the finished Elves, Guardians of the Pen! Click to Enlarge.
Final shot of the finished Elves, Guardians of the Pen! Click to Enlarge.