Its been a slow process, but I will eventually have a jungle. I've been working on palms, ferns, and various bits of jungle foliage for all of May and I expect that it will take a couple more weeks to get this round done.
The trees are from Ebay ranging from 2 -8 inches in height, the other foliage is craft store bits that I've been picking up for years. The ferns are made from individual leaflets from various artificial ferns.
This first pic is from a couple of weeks back. The bases are irregular pieces of sheet styrene, typically around .06 inch thickness, with the edges beveled with a sanding drum on the Dremel. Pilot holes are drilled for the trees, which were glued in place with a Hot-Melt glue gun.
The next pic is from last night, showing some stands with the base coated in a random earthy yellow. A few of the trees will be for cleared areas without much ground cover, while most have an assortment of plants covering the jungle floor.
The ferns are built from individual fronds, usually 7 -10 to create the impression of a fern, and each take a few minutes to build up.
Once construction and base coating is complete, the bases will get a coat of my "jungle mix" flock to finish them off. At the rate that I'm going, that should be in about two weeks.
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