Miniature Forest Completed – 16 Conifer Trees Ready!
Sixteen handmade trees — each shaped, textured, and finished one by one — now stand ready to bring some life (and tactical cover!) to my gaming table.
Recording the final video was more challenging than I expected. Again, this was something new for me, so there was a lot of experimenting. I must have made over forty different takes — something was always off: shaky hands, uneven focus, wrong light… or all of them at once 😅 Besides, when you do something for the first time, you want to try all the possibilities, all the angles, just to see what looks best.
I was honestly a bit unsure at the beginning of this project — it was my first time making conifer trees (and so many at once!) — but the result met my expectations. I think the mix of materials and colors really paid off, giving each tree a slightly unique look.
My High Elves seem pleased too — they’ve been waiting for this kind of forest shelter since the early 2000s. And now, the doors open for some proper thematic battles — not only for my Elves, but also for all kinds of scenarios featuring Faramir’s Rangers, like Ambush in Ithilien, or narrative adventures following Frodo’s secret journey with the One Ring — especially the early part of his travels, still in the green lands of the Shire and the regions surrounding it.
If you’d like to see how the trees evolved step by step, check out the previous WIP posts:
- Materials: https://ilfirinart.blogspot.com/2025/10/project-kickoff-materials-gathered.html
- WIP 1/3: https://ilfirinart.blogspot.com/2025/10/conifer-trees-hedges-wip-13.html
- WIP 2/3: https://ilfirinart.blogspot.com/2025/10/conifer-trees-hedges-wip-23.html
- WIP 3/3: https://ilfirinart.blogspot.com/2025/10/conifer-trees-hedges-wip-33.html
Next up: time to switch gears and work on something new — but these trees will definitely stay among my favourite builds so far.
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