Almansa 1707 - 2mm Woods

Several months ago I started to make some woods and forests for my 2mm Almansa project. My first attempts were utter failures, I originally used different sized pompoms from Hobbycraft, (see below), but as you can see, they come in loads of different colures, so they'd need painting.

I gave it a go and made a hell of a lot of mess, I had green paint absolutely everywhere. More importantly, I had a lot of trouble gluing them down. So I gave up and the whole mess went into the bin!!!

If anyone want a few boxes of these little blighters let me know. You can have them! 

So I went back to Richard's idea of  using Javis tree foliage.

I bought several packs of each of the three colours.

Ripped the pieces up, so they all looked like a large tree for 2mm scale.

Lee suggested using WWS Basing glue, as that's what he'd previously used on his rivers and roads. 

I bought some of the glue yonks ago, to make my own grass tufts, but as per usual I've never got round to doing it?

I found the glue very watery, so much that it soaked right through the felt base of the woods, gluing it to the mat underneath, where I'd left it to dry overnight. so that one went in the bin as well.

The main reason I wanted to use felt as the ground of the woods is so it would be flexible and hug the contours of the board I wanted to place them on. Like halfway up a hill for instance. As you can see by the photo, they are very flexible and bendy, so they should do the trick??

I dipped each tree into superglue then pushed it in place onto the felt. It's probably not the cheapest way to do it, but you know the trees definitely not coming off again, but still gives the flexibility I wanted.

With the 3 different colours all mixed together I think they look pretty effective, I just need to make a few more now, some bigger and some smaller.

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