CaptainRocket 527 Posted August 1, 2018 (edited) So after piddling around with urban settings and what not I decided to take the plunge and do my own Endor forest table. I'm gonna be posting my progress and "how-to" here in this thread. First some medium sized trees from a packing tube I got at Staples. I cut up some paper towel rolls in half and then made pointy sections out of them to create roots. Root forms against the tree trunk. Then I took paper towels, soaked them in 50% white glue 50% water and started draping. They look surprisingly good! The trick I found was to scrunch up the top of the towel so it gets lots of wrinkles... One tree with Luke for scale. One packing tube made three tree trunks (say that three times fast) and they come in a two pack for like I think it was $5! This is good but I wanted some bigger trees to completely hide AT-STs and speeders behind so, to make larger trees I took some foam blocks and cut them into rough round shapes with a hot wire cutter... sloppy cuts help here I think. I also hot glued some of the cut off chunks to make bigger root shapes. I got fancy with this one... To make this huge center piece trunk I glued two 12x12 cubes together first. It's a little taller than the others, and I'm thinking of sawing off like 3 inches from the top and mounting an Ewok village to that round. Then I can add or remove the Ewok platforms and dwellings depending on the kind of battle I want. Now starting to apply paper towels to the foam trees! Edited August 1, 2018 by CaptainRocket 6 Thraug, jocke01, Force Majeure and 3 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jocke01 920 Posted August 2, 2018 Looks Good! 1 CaptainRocket reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Force Majeure 4,108 Posted August 6, 2018 Keep it up Captain! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hemblecreations 190 Posted August 9, 2018 Looking great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainRocket 527 Posted August 20, 2018 Ok a quick update here, been on vacation so not a lot of time to work on them... All I did was prime them black, then spray them brown and spray top down with a tan to bring out some highlights. They don't look great, but passable to play with. I hope this provide a nice base for washing them with a more redwoody color and then doing some drybrush highlights. I've got some grass flocking and small plants and tress to enhance them also which should help. As you can see in the close up by the end I was getting pretty good at making the rumpled paper towel look like really convincing tree bark, the first few are just kinda so-so. 3 Force Majeure, Thraug and SFC Snuffy reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wintermoonwolf 146 Posted August 21, 2018 ....wow...you must a Forestry Minor from university!....great werk!.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainRocket 527 Posted September 9, 2018 Didn't work much on the trees, but got some Battle Kiwi Terrain and a popcorn bucket... Bikes are starting to look legit! I also painted the back side of my folding board a bit more green, and painted up some modular hills out of seat foam, got a second bucket and a Revell shuttle off Ebay... I've been working on the big trunk and techniques for making better looking forest area terrain, will post those next! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
