Sunday, August 1, 2010

Palm Trees & Jungle Sections

No tropical jungle withouth palm trees. For 28mm wargaming there are plenty of options for usable palm trees of a variety of prices and quality. To enhance my jungle board I was looking for good trees and found many options. For a long time I was going to buy the A type palm trees from Pegasus Hobbies, especially because of Anthony Karl Erdelji's excellent article at the Painting Clinic. Still, these trees are not very cheap and I would need quite a number of them.

Recently, after reading Matakishi's Jungle article I bought ten palm trees at the Baker Company. £1,50 each is a very good price but the shipping costs to Germany of £6,85 (for ten palms) are ridiculous and don't get even close to the actual costs. However, they included one free extra palm tree, which mildly made me feel better. I'm not a fan of complaining about shipping costs (such as on ebay auctions) as you know them in advance and it still is up to you to make a purchase at the given conditions or not. But I was annoyed to see the cheap post label on the package.

The palm trees consist of a rather unusual wire plus fabric construction, which does look great eventually:



So what to do with them? For some time I have been itching to try out CD based terrain pieces and this is the perfect opportunity. I also have a few 40mm flat round bases from GW which are useful as one-offs. I used modelling putty to fill the holes of the CDs and put one palm tree in the middle, others were glued onto the CD. Then I added stones of various sizes and lastly sand.






And ready for base-coating:



Update February 2018: I finally got around to finishing these pieces as you can see in this post.


4 comments:

  1. Best palm trees I have seen so far. Not Cianty-made perhaps, but still very nice.

    Also I am sure you will do a great job on the bases.

    Looking forward to completed pics!

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  2. Very inspiring, sir!

    I will have to do something similar for my Lizardmen very soon.

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  3. I know it's been a while, but seems like these trees are unavailable at Bakers now. Does anybody know where I can source some from?

    Cheers!

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  4. Yes, you're right. I haven't seen them there for a while, either.

    If I were to buy new palm trees, which I probably will sooner or later, I would probably go with these:
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310297441997?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_2382wt_1091

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