Making Large Fantasy Trees Scatter Terrain for Wargaming
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
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In this terrain tutorial this I'll go through how I make awesome looking wargaming forest scatter terrain for your tabletop scenarios! I am going to use super sculpey to create these awesome wargaming trees of epic proportions!
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Hey good folks! I really hope you like this tutorial video where I go through how I crafted some pretty amazing looking fantasy style trees. I had a blast making this and I hope that comes through! Stay safe and lots of love! 💙💛💙🤘
From a model railroader the secret to seafoam trees (per the Supertrees instructions) is a dilute matte medium soak (7:1 water:MM). It lends them a lot of suppleness and also allows you to reshape them a little bit if needed.
Oh that's awesome Matt! I might need to test that out! Thanks for the tip! 👍
No way this is scatter, this is art!
Thank you so much Tim! 👍💙💛💙
Yes, yes. ¡A big sí x2!
Who needs Dwarven Forge when we have Leif?
Excellent work!
Hahahaha! 🤣 Oh shucks DannyRight! I wish that was true but nonetheless thank you a lot for your kind words! 👍
If you have a coffee grinder, an even better ground gover is your dried out coffee grounds. Save yourself a few kroner!
That's an awesome idea right there! Thanks for sharing! 👍😊
Watching Leif make terrain is similar in relaxation factor to painting minis for me.
Until the power metal kicks in.
Hahahahaha! Thank you so much Teddyharvester! The power metal is there to make sure no one has fallen asleep! 👍😂
They look absolutely fantastic, except for the fact that moss tends to grow on the north side of trees in the northern hemisphere. They like the dark humid environment of northern facing surfaces. 🤘
Hahahahaha! That is so true! I should have picked one direction! 👍😂
A good tip for making bendable vines for hanging from tree branches: coat lengths of cotton, jute, or butchers twine with brown silicone and then roll in loose coco coir til covered. Let dry completely and wear gloves bc its very messy! I think they make perfect wild grape vines. I've made many backgrounds for reptile tanks using this and they hold up very well
That is some awesome tips there Tara! Thanks! I need to try these out! Also badass having reptiles! What kind if you don't mind me asking? 👍😊
Always nice to meet another Leif!🎉
Greeting Leif! We are few but strong! 👍😊
@@DevsDice I find a lot of inspiration in your videos - thank you for sharing what you do!
125 C = 257 F. Really nice trees --- love the moss!
Thank you so much! 👍😊
Gives me an idea to create one that has most of the trunk rooted down but then one portion opened like a magic portal to another side where your party can adventure and fight evil forces. Very nice!
Thank you kindly! Sounds like an awesome idea! 👍😊
What cute little trees! That's always the problem, with gaming trees; real trees are often around 100' (30.5m) tall. In D&D terms, that's 20" (51cm) tall. Whilst gaming, we'd not be able to see anything on the table. That said, yours are very majestic, and look rad as heck. Super nice
Yeah I agree, but that's usually the case, we often need to compromise between scale, functionality and visual aesthetic. Thanks for the nice comment! 👍
I love those giant trees, so old and majestic looking
Thank you so much Get Dat Shoota! Yeah these came out nice! Thank you for the comment as always! 👍
I’m a simple man. I see that devs and dice has a new video. I watch it. As always, great info and great fun. 🙌🏻😄🤘🏻
Haha! That's awesome! You rock man! Thank you so much for the support! 🤘
Awesome work on the trees, nice to see scale trees for 28mm miniatures.
Thank you very much! I agree completely! 👍😃
Legolas would hug your trees!
I think this must be the nicest thing someone has said! Thank you!! 😂👍
Absolutely stunning trees. Haven't used seafoam before but hell, I wouldnt let people throw around my trees either.
Thank you so much! Yeah it's a bit fragile for sure but if you find some more runny latex then I am fairly certain you could coat them to give them some flex! 😃 Sentiment regarding terrain...agreed! 🤣
I use green floral foam (not the wet stuff) and seal it with mod podge and sometime a spray. Ya they’re fragile but as you said,I ain’t letting people throw em around. People talk like their gamers are dipshits I’m sorry
Hahaha! 😂 Yeah my players are somewhat careful and considerate so I am not worried! 😃
Comment for the algorithm! Nice build as always!!
Thank you kindly! And listen to this one everyone! 🤣
These trees are truly amazing.
Thank you so much Lyla! Happy you like them! 🤘💙💛💙
Very excited to try this for some Cottonwood trees for an old west campaign! Thanks for the info!
Ahh that sounds awesome Gregroemke! Good luck and have fun! 👍😊
The pasta machine blew my mind. Look forward to trying this
It is a game-changer for sure! 👍😊
Exelent brother when i saw all of them together i got that feeling of fangorn forest. I was half expecting treebeard to appare
Nice of you to stay to the end man! Yeah It was kind of exciting! And I will be adding more to make it look proper forest-like! Thanks for the comment and the support! 🤘
He he man, you're right! The same ancient feeling with something sentient being present, but always in the corner of your eye... 👀
@@DevsDice i allways stay to the end. Im still waiting for the kitchensink proverb.
Haha some day! :D
Dear Leif, another great tutorial! Viewers may be interested to know that yacht vanish (sprayed over several layers make the foliage more robust. For further information please see Luke Fellows (Geek Gaming) but that is just a suggestion. Best Wishes Johnny
Thank you Johnny for the kind words and the tip! 👍
Already a sucker for the epic ending credits in every video...
Haha! That's good to hear because I sort of love them as well! 😜
Awesome looking trees! I really like how relatively simple these are yet how good they look, most tree tutorials I’ve seen are really complicated..... great work Leif!
Thank you so much MattTheMonster!! Happy you like these small beasts of trees! 🤘
Wooooooooooooow! Wooooooooooow! Just WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Majestic! :O
Thank you so much Tandy! Yeah these trees are BEASTS! 👍😂
I recently broke my arm so CZcams has been my best friend during the recovery. I can not wait to try creating some scatter terrain for my home games now that I've found such an amazing guide 😍
Oh no iwan! Hope you are on the mend! And yes once you can, create scatter terrain! It's amazing! :D Thanks for the nice comment! 👍
Those turned out SO cool!
Thank you so much Carra! Yeah these ones are beauties! A bit brittle with the seafoam but look smashing! 👍😅
Perfect way to kick of the week! Thanks, Leif!
My pleasure Niels! Happy you like it! 👍
Very amazing treed indeed
Thank you kindly Alpha rex Wolf! Happy you like them! 😊
Beautiful!
Thank you so much iain Adams! Happy you like it! 🤘
Beautiful looking trees. I’d love to see a winter variety.
Ooooh! Yeah that would be a nice thing to play around with Maxson! Might happen! 😉
Those were some kick-ass seafoam and coconut fiber trees, Leif! You have definitely perfected the art of talking to yourself! But that is a big part of the charm of Deva & Dice!
Hahaha! Thanks Frank! I just wished I could find a more durable version of seafoam! 👍😅
good as always. you are a good actor Leif
Thank you Tom sixi3.s3 and I do try my best, when it comes to my so called acting and crafting! 🤣
Wonderful work Leif. Thank you so much
Thank you kindly! Happy you like it! 🤘
Fantastic as always!
Thank you so much for that and for commenting as often as you do! It gives me fuel to push on! 👍
Great work as usual!
I appreciate you saying so Lőrinc! Thank you so much for your support! 🤘
Totally amazing results!
Thank you so much Daniel! Happy you like it! Thanks for commenting! 👍😊
nicely done, you just earned a sub! good editing, nice mix of humor and instruction, looking forward to more!
Thank you so much Andrew and welcome to the channel! 👍😊
Really nice looking trees Leif! (hittade dig nyligen, många fina byggen!)
Thank you so much! 😊🤘 Glad att du hittade hit och återigen så tackar jag ödmjukast! 👍
Mindblowing ! Amazing craft Sir !
Thank you so much David! Happy you like it! 👍
Absolutely amazing!
Thank you so much Tara! Yeah these trees came out really nice! 👍😊
Great work as always! Love to see terrain and vegetation creation. My favorite!
Thank you my friend! 😊
These look absolutely amazing, thank you for the great inspiration!
My pleasure SirFubbles! Happy to help any way I can! Thanks for the nice comment! 👍
This is exactly what I was looking for. Great video, I can’t wait to build some trees!
That's awesome Glenn! Happy to help in any way I can! 👍
Very awesome trees. Love how they came out. You can even use them for trees that walk around. Keep up the great builds.
Thank you so much! Yeah that's actually true! They could totally be an Ent or Treant as I think they are called in D&D! 🤣
This is something I've been meaning to try and haven't yet, but watching the process as you go through it makes it seem really fun! Really awesome to see what they end up as.
Thank you very much! Yeah you can almost never go wrong with trees both in making them but also their use of the gaming table! Go for it I say and have fun! 👍
Excellent job. Very impressive. I think even i could build these.
Thanks you and of course you can Ovarb12! Go for it and have fun! 👍😊
Excellent truly excellent.
Thank you so much!! 😃
Wow! Honestly the BEST tree tutorial I've seen! Keep up the great work!
Oh wow! Yay! 😊 Thank you so much John!!! 👍
amazing job! love it!!!!
Thank you JayurBadger!!! Glad you like it! 🤘😃
Beautiful! Good tutorial!
Thank you so much Sara! Happy you liked it! 👍😊
SO MUCH AWESOME! I love this, they look like they are right out of a big-budget Hollywood fantasy movie. Beautiful terrain, thanks for sharing!
Oh wow! Thank you so much for your kind words! Kind of getting a bit embarrassed here! But thank you! 🤣👍
Wow! Those came out really great.That moss trick gave me some ideas, too.
Thank you Eric! Awesome!!! Love to help or inspire!! 🤘
I was waiting all week for a new craft! Well worth the wait!! Thanks Leif. Masterpiece as always!
Haha! Sorry 100ID B! I can only devote so much time to the channel at the moment so my uploads might be a bit slower than ideal but I try! 🤣 Thank you so much for the nice comment! Happy you like the trees! 👍
@@DevsDice No problem Leif. Totally understand when life gets in the way of your hobbies! I really appreciate all the time and effort you put in to these. Best wishes from the US!
Thank you for understanding! I hope to be able to commit fulltime to this some day but for now I have to "hobby when I can"! 🤣
Beautiful work Buddy!!!!! Trees are so very labor intensive but it really shows!!!!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!!!!
Thank you so much 😀 Yeah trees can take a while but I am going to do some simpler ones also which still actually adds to my forest terrain! Thank you very much for the nice comment! 🤘
Great video, brilliant trees
Many thanks for that Mark! :)
Amazing work!
Thank you Richard! 👍
Those are amazing looking! I definitely need to make some!
Thank you Lordpeppe and please make some! 👍😀
Nice work Leif. These look great.
Cheers Shawn! 😊
these are dope, will be tryin this out
Thank you kindly Bender16361! Please have a try and tell me how it went! Have fun! 👍😊
Ended up here from 52 Miniatures channel.. you have some of the best terrain tutorials and end results out of all the CZcams videos I've seen. These trees in particular are fantastic. Really enjoying your content
Welcome Kyle! Ah I assume it was one of Alex's collab videos or such? Thank you so much for saying so, that makes me very happy to hear! 👍😊 I plan on focusing a bit more on terrain going forwards! Thanks again for this super nice comment! 👍💙💛💙
Lovely trees Leif! What's next? Yggdrasil?
Haha! 🤣 Nope but perhaps in the future for sure! 👍
These trees are great!!!
Thank you very much louis! Happy you like them! 👍
They look so good! :D
Thank you so much Tina! Happy you like them! 👍
Hey man, greetings from England. Absolutely brilliant video. Really enjoy this one. Fantastic stuff. More please!
Cheers man! Yeah I will get more out as they are completed. Unfortunately I am unable to craft terrain in any other capacity than hobby! But perhaps one day! Who knows? 😊
Those are fine looking trees indeed! Great work sir.
Thank you so much Karl! 👍
pasta machine? xD great idea!
Thank you Francesco! Works like a charm! 👍😊
Very nice. I like it.
Thank you kindly Christopher! 👍
Great tutorial Leif. I liked the coconut foliage very different and a nice woodland mixture
Thank you so much Jamie! Yeah coconut fiber is a really good material to have at hand! 👍😀
I picked up a realistic tree kit years ago which contained the seafoam tree armatures and they suggested you soak them in matte medium to strengthen them. The kit was more for use on a model railroad terrain sets, but you could probably do the same thing for gaming terrain.
That's awesome! I will need to test that out as soon as I get some more seafoam trees! Also I think I want one of those boxes because mine came a bit flattened since they were in a A4-size plastic wrapping. Thanks for the tip John!!! 👍
very cool
Thank you very much igoruberwald!! 😊
Awesome
Thank you! 👍😉
The trees look great, especially the largest one
, I associate it with the big tree from the movie Legend from 1985 :) And the beginning of the movie is the same as in Koyaanisqatsi. Lots of references to the 80's ;)
Thank you kindly! I have not seen Koyaanisqatsi but Legend was a visual favorite for me as a child of the 80s! :D
Fantastic! I think I'll use your technique for my RING WRAITH/HOBBIT display.
Oh wow! That sounds epic! Can you share the completed display anywhere? 👍
😀I appreciate your encouragement but I'm still new at this. I've always used shrub branches for my displays.🤣
We all start from somewhere jotull! 👍
Top notch trees! The foil layer is really smart, nice touch using that!!
For a substitute instead of the sea foam trees. I have been using rope twine basicly making trees from that but of much smaller scale (mostly aspen type trees) but it may work in a pinch if your running low on those.
Thanks Domtug! Interesting you mentioning twine! Similar to the one I used in my "Bushes video"? Thanks for commenting! 👍🙂
Awesome! Now these are the trees I've been looking for. Big and majestic. One thing, I saw another guy cut up a green scotch pad to use as a base for the leaves and he then covered it with the green turf. That would probably be sturdier and not as fragile as the seafoam trees. Might give it a try sometime. But great trees and great video!
That's good to hear Brian! Yeah I used some polyfiber from Woodland Scenics in my Birch tree and I have to say that I really like how durable those trees came out. I think I will revisit at least one or a few more tree builds in the future! Thanks for the nice comment! 👍😊
Lovely. And very enjoyable video to watch. The end result looks a lot like an oak! I think some minor improvements could be to have one or two smaller dead parts of the tree (like a dead branch), since old oaks will often have those. And then it would also make sense to have an (or a couple of) old dead branch(es) that at some point came off be lying on the ground. Not that it has to be super realistic like that. But that is the image that comes to my mind when thinking about old oaks. In any case, very pretty trees.
Thank you so much Torvid! There are always improvements to be made and I really like the idea about dead branches! Will have to try to keep than in mind if I do new tree-videos! Thanks for the nice comment! 👍💙💛💙
I like the looks of these trees! Reminds me of those ones from Weta workshop. Nice work!
Oh man Seb, be still my heart mate, your comment honor me man! Thank you! 💙💛💙
This gave me tons of great inspiration! It shouldn’t be too hard to make the leafy branch’s modular... like swap them with ‘dead’ branches Idk.
That could be done yeah, I guess magnets could easily enough be used as long as the connecting branches have a similar dimension? :D
@@DevsDice what about a socket that the ‘live or dead’ branches slide into
Yeah I suppose that could work as well. I guess it all depends on how much control one had of the dimensions. But for instance on the "off-shoot" branch, that kind of would give the modular branch a "lip" to slide into?
@@DevsDice okay so imagine that the off shoot branch has a male end... tooth pick that will slide into a small coffee straw... the main branch of the tree. When there is no off shoot it would just look like hollowed out dead branch of the main tree. But when you plug in the off shoot you could easily camouflage the joint with moss or whatever you like. Make sense? Wordy words aren’t my friend
Yeah it makes total sense!!! :D
Awesome trees! I could definitely see them used in a diorama of Luke & Yoda on Dagobah, or Mirkwood Forest with dwarves on the ground and spiders in the trees.
Oh my lord Ronald. That is like so nice of you to say! 😥 Happy tears 🤣
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Tack så mycket igen Emil! 👍🙂
Wow ! It's just amazing ! This tutorial is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much 😄
Next step : adding some roots emerging from the ground (like small arches)... it would add another dimension to the gigantism of the trees 😄
Thanks for saying so Elise! That makes my day! That is an excellent idea! I might do that depending on if I make some more trees in the future! 👍😊
Great work! The fan favorite moss is a bit thick for my taste, considering the scale, but the overall impression is very nice!
Thank you Anecron1! I actually tend to agree a bit, I would have wanted the same area covered but exactly like you say it might be laid on too thick here and there. Good feedback! Will try to remember that if I do some more in the future! 👍
@@DevsDice I understand why you say the moss is a bit thick, but it looks very much like the trees where I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, which are literally covered in moss :)
Edit for clarity.
Yeah I have both kind in my area but yeah some trees look ridiculous, basically vibrant green moss up to "the waist" of the tree! 🤣
This is awesome. Just a thought from my 30 years of experience is that plaster is cheaper to fill out the trees instead of clay. It is much lighter to, not super heavy like clay.
You can also use mod podge to lock in the plaster to harden and protect it.
Great point! Thanks for sharing! 👍😀
HUZZAH! New Subscriber as well. Good luck to you and your channel, well worth the watch!
Welcome! Thank you so much for saying so! 👍
@@DevsDice - I thought that I had already, but then you said something. So I checked, glad I did.
PIZZAKARTONG!! Turf collector 2000! :D!
Hahaha! So true Ted! 😂
They turned out magnificent! Each tree on its own could be the centerpice of a diorama.
Great work as always, Leif!
Keep it up! :D
Thank you so much 186mw! I will try! :)
Cool...
Thanks Larry! 👍😊
Very nice Amazing... I love modeling landscape. Trees.. Sorry my Englisch I am from Switzerland... I have subscribe your Chanel.... Greetings from Switzerland. Alex 😊😊👍👍
I have also a nice Chanel... Greetings from Switzerland. Alex 🤔🤔😉😉😊😊👍👍👍
Looks amazing! I am guessing you have a larger oven to bake the clay in. I usually use a small toaster oven for my smaller projects.
Thank you Edward! Actually, I think my over is pretty standard kitchen oven. For the large one I had to set the platter on the bottom of course! 🤣
Wow the trees lok fantastical! I really love the one with the really big roots. Great job! May I ask what the song is called that's played in the 360°-Show shots?
Thank you so much Saphyron CQ! Happy you like them! Yeah the song is called "Call of the North" from Niklas Johansson! :)
need stronger, but good work. i guess they wont store well and could get damaged in a short time. foliage is always tricky. i just made some trees and getting it to seal was very difficult. but they cost an arm and a leg from the shop!
Yeah thinking about making a video about some simple and more durable trees that can still add some flavor to my tabletop. Like I said in the video, these are delicate and yeah should be handled with some care. :)
Stunning! I was wondering if you had to recreate something similar but with a snowy theme, at what point would you add the snow flock? right at the end I assume?
Hey Grigør Pyrok! Yeah as a base I would add it to the end but that being said. It depends. If you are looking into making really frozen, then I would potentially let it influence me in the painting stages i.e. introduce some blues and colder colors. But as a base, yeah snow flock at the end. 👍
@@DevsDice alright thank you very much! One last thing, in your other video about forest scatter terrain you use about 12-14 inches long aluminum wires to then twist in half and start modeling the trees... how long are they in this one to make it in that big of a scale? I was about to start making some terrain for my wargaming group and I will for sure use this vid as inspiration
I think the largest one ended up being something like 14-16 inches. That being said, it depends entirely how you use the length i.e. how many twists and turns you do. Hope that gives you some sort of direction! 👍
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Cheers! :D
Your Twin brother brings a lot to your intros, is Leaf going to be joining Leif more often?.
Ha-ha-ha... Damn you Nate 🤣😜
@@DevsDice Is this Leaf or Leif?
Hahaha! Leaf us alone! 🤣
Great work, thanks! I'm planning to have a crack myself. Roughly how much sculpey did you get through so I know how much to buy?
Music to my ears George Bradley! As I remember, I think I used about 25-50% of a package! Hope that helps! 👍😅
First mention inches, then Celsius, pick a side man! :P
Haha! So true! As a Swede that loved crafting for inch-based games it get's confusing! Not going to start with Fahrenheit anytime soon I think! 🤣
@@DevsDice It's the same here in Canada. We measure distances in kilometers, height in inches, and temperatures in Celsius. It's really just a melting pot of everything.
I go outside and pick a real branch that looks good, apply some glue mixture for strength and slap it on a base.
Good for you! Do you have any photo or such?
@@DevsDice I do, I took a few, both off forests and a large tree I did for Mordheim.
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Thank you so much and welcome to the channel Carlos! 👍💙💛💙