Welcome to the Jungle

Finally got back in the garage today.  Started adding flora to the jungle mounds from the previous post.  Alot more time consuming than I anticipated, about 45 minutes to an hour for each mound.  I made a total of 12 mounds and only had time to finish up 5 today.  I did a few other things while out there messing around.  Cut my terrain table boards down to fit on the main playing surface.  Was going to texture and paint the terrain boards but I feel like I should add some slats to the underside of the quarter inch MDF to keep from bowing before I get busy with the playing area.  I think I will go pick up some 1x2 pine slats to make a frame support underneath.

I mainly used aquarium plants with some ferns I picked up from Micheal's craft store.  Without further ado here are the shots of the jungle pieces I got completed.

The palm like tree in the center was made from the stem from the fern with aquarium plant leaves hot glued to the wire nubs.  I gave it a drybrush of light green and light brown to give it a trunk like appearance.  I still wanted it to be a plant, so left it green.

Here's a pterodactyl's eye view of the 5 finished pieces and unpainted Garar Stormraven hanging out in the jungle.  These 5 include the largest pieces that I made.  The rest are alot smaller than the two largest pieces shown here and are more the size of the bottom left corner piece.

Busy Busy Busy

The jungle terrain is coming along rather slowly.  The drying steps just kill me.  I applied a light drybrush to the mounds, I don't know if it was noticeable.  My garage lighting is not optimal for painting and I didn't feel like bringing everything in the house, the cats don't make that very easy anyway.  Here is the dry brushing.

I know you can barely tell, they did dry really glossy and the drybrushing toned that down a bit.  I didn't think the drybrushing needed much time to dry so I painted some glue onto the figs and sprinkled some flock on just to give the bases some added variety before I apply the jungle foliage.

 The glue hasn't dried beneath the flock which lends the sheen to the underside of the flock.  I'm hoping to get them done tomorrow after work.  I was doing a few other projects while I was in the garage.  I finally finished up my evergreen trees.  Here is what they look like.  I won't go into too much detail on the how to, I was going to put up a tutorial at some point on both the tree types I created.

The small deep green trees nestled in the group are dollar store trees I picked up to help fill up the table.