A jungle for my Vietnam project

29. November 201929. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, jungle terrain, The terrain tutor, The Vietnam war

Here are a few pictures of my started jungle terrain for my Vietnam war project. I know that the color of the soil in Vietnam is a lot more red than my soil color but I wanted to be able to use my other terrain tiles with this project so to let them be used together I had to use the color I used on my older stuff ,too.

I got inspiration and a how to from the terrain tutor over on youtube . Have a look here.

I will ad a lot more in the future . Paddy fields , other trees more palm trees , streets and buildings.

Making your own clump foliage from upholstery foam

29. August 201929. August 2019 thomasriepe clump foliage, jungle terrain, self made clump foliage, The terrain tutor, vietnam terrain, wargames terrain

As i have to do some terrain for my ongoing Vietnam war project. I need a lot of clump foliage for my jungle terrain, so instead of buying it I thought about doing it myself. I know someone who does upholstery as a profession and he gave me offcuts of upholstery foam seen here:

I cut it into smaller peaces with a pair of scissors and added these together with some water into a blender. I blended them for a few seconds and had this:

So this doesn’t look like terrain clumps as the color is all wrong. So I put the still damp foam shreds int a bowl with household paint and some PVA:

And this is what came out after mixing the foam shreds with the color:

two different shades of green clump foliage and some brown:

This took me about half an hour to do. The clumps have to dry now for 24h and will be ready to do a coarse scatter for the jungle bases and the bases of my miniatures.

This wasn’t my original idea to be fair, though I nicked it from Mel, aka the terrain tutor.

you can see a video by him about the process here

I will post more about my vietnam terrain as I create it.

The Flockbox

14. January 201614. January 2016 thomasriepe 28mm figure, Flockbox, Grass tufts, terrain, The terrain tutor, Warpainter

I got a Flockbox for x xmas which can be used for making your own grass tufts or for flocking your terrain.

“”The Flockbox is a unique and versatile flocking device that allows flocking of small to medium size objects at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a commercial flocking device.

‘Flock’ is nylon fibres like fine hair and is available in a huge range of colours, it is used to create the velvet feel on objects such as jewelry boxes, car dashboards, toys or longer flock can be used to create realistic looking grasses in miniature.

The Flockbox uses an electrostatic charge to attract the flock fibres onto your glued surface resulting in the fibres standing on their ends in the glue to produce a carpet effect.” Quoted from the manufacturers site.

You can find more info here

Here is a short video showing how it works. Curtesy The terrain tutor