The information contained below I’ve picked up in various forums, tutorials and by looking at some commercially available trees over the past decade or so, unfortunately this means I can’t provide any links to anyone place as inspiration, think of the below as an amalgamation of web idea’s plus some of my own all mixed together.How to Make War Games Terrain. You can see some further photos of the textured trunk at the end of this blog post. I apologies for the below pictures but it was very difficult to take some decent photos to show the build process. I’ve only done single trunk trees however I am going to try multi-trunk and fruit trees later on. Below is a bit of a how to on what I did to make my trees.
Building a Games Workshop US Open Table Up until now Id. It was time to build some new terrain. I have been making these for around 10years due to the highly expensive prices pre made buildings will cost you most likelYou will need to gather some supplies before you can start making trees:But I wanted to up my practice game if I was going to do this.
5 min epoxy if your using the magnets and don’t have hot glueIf you can’t find the exact tie wire listed above slightly thinner would be better than slightly thicker, make sure it is tie wire and not high tensile fencing wire. Disc magnets 15mm x 1mm/ 5/8 x 1/32 inch(optional) 9 mm diameter (19 gauge) galvanized tie wire 20-30 meters of 1.57mm diameter (14-15 gauge) galvanized tie wire
4 x 12.5cm / 5 inches (potentially optional read below)Grab two of the same length of wire and twist them together using your fingers and the pliers. The first step is to grab your thicker (1.57mm) tie wire and cut some lengths of wire: You should be able to expand this method out to make taller trees by simply adding an extra longer length. Deal extreme also sells an 18mm x 2mm magnet which would be interesting to experiment with.The dimensions etc listed below will make a tree approximately 20cm/8inches tall, at the end I’ve included some dimensions and lengths for a 6inch tall tree.
As a rough guide leave at least 10cm / 4inches on the 20cm / 8inch wire pairs, 8cm /3 inches on the 26.5cm / 10.5 inches wire pairs and 6cm / 2 1/2 inches on the 30cm / 12 inches wire pairs. Again do not twist the wire pairs all the way together as the end part of the wire becomes the branches. This is harder to do due the 4 strands of wire, if you need to you can use a second pair of pliers to help with the twisting. I’ve done a picture and a very short video to try and show what I mean.For the 5inch lengths there is no need to leave a tail on them as they will be used as extra branches, hopefully you have two of each twisted length something similar to the below.Similar to the above process now grab two of the same length twisted wire pairs and twist them together. Do not twist the wires all the way together leave at least 4cm / 1.5 inches untwisted on each piece.
Take your Short, Medium and Long trunk/branch segments and fit them together so that the roots at the bottom are lined up flat but pointing out in different directions and the branches poke out in different directions at the top or as different as you can get them. Bend your short root ends up at about 90 degrees.Hopefully you now have five parts that look something like the below.This next part is difficult to describe, however hopefully with my description and the pictures below you’ll be able to work out what I mean. You may end up with a little extra wire at the ends if you do just snip it off, likewise if one branch is turning out a little short don’t worry to much trees don’t seem to when they grow in nature :). I’ve included a diagram below which shows the approximate lengths to leave prior to doing a bend, don’t take these figures as 100% accurate but use them as a starting guide and then if something looks off adjust it a little. Basically you just need to bend the untwisted wire parts down, not as far down as 90 degrees but just slightly sloping upwards, try not to bend the two branches exactly opposite each other, stagger one slightly up and the other slightly down.
However to really help tie the wire together in a more permanent structure. To help strength the tree further and hold it together, You will need to wrap masking tape tightly around the trunk under each wire branch pair.Your tree should be fairly sturdy now and is hopefully not in any danger of falling back into it’s component parts. The three wire trunks will naturally form a sort of triangle down the bottom.You can really start to see the tree in your wire armature now.
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If you do wish to use the two extra branches they are pretty easy to use, basically bend what would be the root end down about 1.5cm / 1/2 inch. I’ve done a few trees with just opposite branches and it does have some advantages, you use less Acrylic gap filler, less branches means less “leaf” (ok sponge material) that you have to glue and use on the tree, quicker to paint and most importantly the trees will still look good. The below image shows were you should have the glue placed, feel free to use your hot glue on other spots if you feel the armature needs it.If you like you can stop there and call your tree miniature armature done and not worry about adding a few extra branches. The advantage with hot glue is that it dries quickly so less waiting around.
I use the 0.9mm wire and just twiddle a bit around the the top of the trunk and extend it upwards about 3.75 cm / 1.5 inches and then have small branches pulled down on each side of about the same length (you may need to glue/tape it in place). Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of myself covered in strands of hot glue and wincing in pain as it stuck to my hands, but hopefully the two pictures below and the description above give you a rough idea of what to do.Once you have your branches added on, next is to add a short top to the tree. While the hot glue is drying wrap some masking tape around the tree trunk and the branch tail to help hold it in place (the tape is very important if you use PVA glue). Now using your hot glue gun glue the branch to the side of your tree.
If the tree trunk is laying over re-bend your roots to help flatten it out. You want your root ends at this point to be pointing slightly upwards (Yes my roots are slightly longer than needed).Take two of your 15mm magnets and super glue them together, next temporarily stick your magnets to the base of the tree and stand the tree on a flat surface check in all dimensions that the tree trunk is approximately vertical and isn’t laying over in one direction or the other. The picture below shows a base I’ve sorted and flattened out. If you look at the base of your tree you’ll notice the roots are all crisscrossed over one and other, what you want to do is untwist and pull these out flat. If you prefer to permanently affix your trees to your terrain you can skip this step. I’ll need to do a post later on detailing how I make my hills etc with grab points.
You can also see in the below picture were I built up the base with a bit of hot glue.Lastly before we apply the acrylic you can further bandage the tree in masking tape. The roots will seem to curve down over the magnet which is the effect we are after. I find the best way to do this is to bend them down to about where I think they need to be and then check them by standing the tree on a tabletop and bend any up and down that need adjusting. Once they are all trimmed down you want to bend the roots down so that the tips of each root are level with the base of the magnet.
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