Trees and Buddha statues

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 03:28
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Trees and Buddha statues

Hey was wondering if any one knows of any good miniature trees to use for terrain, and any good miniature buddha statues. I need these items to make the gaming board that I am planning to build in the near future.

Thanks for all the help.

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 08:50
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Tat shops are a great source of buddha statues. I don't know how prevalent they are elsewhere in the world, but my home town is the seaside and I have access to literally dozens. I bought one yesterday for our game table and I had to CHOOSE between options...

Trees seem like a pain. You want willows and such, and I havn't personally really seen anywhere that does them.

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 10:03
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I have some willows trees I made up last year, I'll try and make a guide if you like? they aren't particularly great but they aren't particularly diffucult either:)

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 10:26
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For Buddha statues as JSWiers says charity, pound or fish shops will all like stock them and pretty cheap.

The tree are slightly hard but most scale trees will do, model railway, wargames shops pr online would be the best place, or as Greeny says you can make your own. Bamboo can be quite easily done with wooden meat squewers and a small amount of putty.

For buildings you could build some with foam card.

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:03
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Yeah Greeny a guide would be great. Yeah I will have to find some shop around that sells the buddha statues, but it doesnt sound like it will be that hard. Once I get these items and have time to work on my board I will post some pics.

Thanks every one for the help.

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Sat, 02/18/2012 - 13:07
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My wife picked up a couple of nice little Buddhas in Singapore when she visited there, I ninja'd one of them and made a mould of it so I could cast multiples of them.

The figure has many undercuts but despite that only got a couple of big airbubbles but are hardly noticable because of their position, I have pics in my thread on Hirst arts.

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Sun, 02/19/2012 - 12:57
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this is the kind of willow tree I knocked up pretty quickly, if its what you're looking for i'll get the guide up sometime this week-

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Mon, 02/20/2012 - 05:04
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Yeah that type of tree would work great.

 

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Thu, 03/15/2012 - 17:37
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I've shopped around quite a lot for model trees and most of them look too short next to 28/32mm miniatures - a real tree is 6 to 10 times the height of a person, so you ideally need models that are 20cm to 30cm to get the scale to work.

I am a big fan of Heki trees. They're a German model railway brand and their "artline" series are great - there's a selection here: http://www.blackwells-miniatures.com/hk-heki-trees-scenics-heki-artline-super-artline-c-26_128.html. Of these, you get oak, maple and pine trees in Japan. You also get cedar, but they don't seem to do those.

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Thu, 04/19/2012 - 09:20
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Found this site - http://www.himalayacrafts.com/browse/productcatalog.aspx?catid=19&sid=105 that might help. The Naga one us esp nice, bu prob a bit pricey

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