The same hut as I have shown you previously, just raised from the ground, as many of the jungle huts ,you can see on historic pictures, were.
Complete with an underground entrance to a VC hideout. Or is it just a storeroom?
Comparrison with the other hut:
There will be a smaller hut in the future. Just printing it out.
As a break from painting miniatures and as I like building terrain as much as painting miniatures, I started to do some more terrain for my Vietnam gaming table. I decided that my jungle wasn’t dense enough so there have to be more jungle scatter pieces. There were only a few palm trees so there have to be done some more. But most important I wanted to do some bigger elephant grass patches and a landingzonye for my choppers.
So I started with some palm trees . I use the plastic stuff you can get from sign makers as offcuts. This is quite sturdy and takes glue and paint well. I hot glued the trees to this and put some filler and sand on them to define the base of the trees.
Some of the trees were just glued to a washer and a 25mm mdd base to have a smaller footprint on the table and fit between the other terrain pieces. The washer was used to make the base heavier and prevent the tree from falling over. Then I painted the bases and added plastic plants and flock like on my other jungle pieces.
here are the finished pieces:
The elephant grass test piece was done by glueing pieces of artificial grass to a plastic base , adding filler round the edges of the grass to blend it all in , adding sand and scatter and of course paint.
So this looks like a small path through the grass doesn’t it?
some more pictures:
Next up my LZ ( landing zone) done like the elephant grass with a wider central free space for the choppers to land in:
Some more pictures:
And all the pieces I have finished at the moment:
Next project will be a village in the jungle with rice paddies, hooches , and animal pens.
As you can see here I made my own clump foliage. I mixed a coarse scatter foliage to be added to my jungle terrain and to the bases of the Marines and the soon to come NVA.
Here is a picture without the foliage and with the foliage:
What do you think ? I personally think with foliage will blend the miniatures better into the 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.
