Paint Table Saturday 03 July

 

Well, that's what is on the workbench right now - half the tree plantation tiles and the 40mm insert pieces. Here is the other half of the tiles:

I realised when I was adding the scrub patches to the "tracked" tiles that I'd made a little bit of a boo-boo. It turns out that the paint/PVA "fix" I'd used on the herbs hadn't fully dried when I added the turf, so a lot of the herbs got covered with green flock. Not a big issue as I can add some more herbs later on. Right now the tiles are being left alone until the scrub and turf are fully dry. Tomorrow I will seal everything with some scenic cement (before adding the extra herbs) and when that has had a few hours to dry, I will hit them with a spray coat of matte varnish.

As I mentioned yesterday, I have started work on the 40mm insert pieces:

Tomorrow I'll airbrush on some brown wash and also add some scenic cement to fix and seal the scrub mix.

Last night I glued the tops onto some tree bases from Charlie Foxtrot Models. I then beveled the edges with a knife and sanded the cut down:

Photo taken before beveling the edges

This evening I have been preparing bases for the kunai grass and bamboo thickets. That has mostly involved cutting 5mm blue foam to fit the bases and gluing it onto the MDF. I haven't bothered to take pictures of those.

So far, everything looks set for me to have the tree plantation tiles finished on Monday. After that, I think I'll start on the kunai grass bases, then the bamboo. Once they are done and dusted it will be time for a lot of tree tarting-up.