I recently picked up a set of the plastic Citadel woods to add to my graveyard.
The trees in this set are like something from Sleepy Hollow, with their Brothers Grimm, Tim Burton aesthetic. Very suitable for inclusion in my graveyard terrain in other words.
My graveyard is painted to match my wasteland terrain set and so I painted the trees to match the dead bits of wood that feature on my Scourged Forest gaming mat.
I had originally planned to leave the trees devoid of the foliage pieces supplied but when I assembled the kit I decided that I liked the unusual looking leaf pieces too much to simply leave them in the box.
In a moment of madness I decided to add magnets to a number of the tree branches with corresponding magnets inset into the underneath of the leaf pieces. Now the trees can reasonably represent both autumn and winter or living and dead.
Sort of fun to do? Yep. Easier to store as a result? Probably. Worth the trouble? Nope.
Like the trees themselves I painted the large plastic base supplied to match my gaming mat. I dont think that I will end up using the base very often as I plan to use the trees as freestanding single pieces. Nonetheless I figured that I might as well paint the base alongside the trees anyway: who knows when I might decide to use the woods in that fashion?
Lastly the tree above (which I showed along with Santiago a while back) got painted at the same time as the GW set. Its a plastic tree supplied with the Horrorclix starter set from a few years ago.
I based the tree so that it would have the regulation footprint for representing a “hanging tree” in Malifaux games.
I am currently working on a another couple of sets of Renedra gravestones to bulk out the graveyard set, then I will be fully finished with it. Once I am done with those I will try to get some half decent photos of the whole thing set up for a game.
Filed under: Terrain | Tagged: 2012, Malifaux, St Craniums |
The trees turned out really nice! Mine are still languishing in grey plastic land… though I did cut up one of the trees for a build project that fizzled. I suppose they’re now bits.
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When GW released that kit originally I thought that they were crazy: the plastic trees looked too heavily stylised to me. As time went on I found that the design grew on me though.
I think that I have a few spare branches from the kit left over. If they would help turn your set from “bits” back into “terrain” then let me know and I will pop them in the post.
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[…] The terrain used was primarily my cemetery set that I completed last year with the more recent magnetised creepy GW woods added alongside a pair of Pegasus bridges over a Pegasus […]
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