Anybody remember the 90's, when woods on the tabletop were not just another plastic kit? Where you used model railway trees, or even built them from scratch?
My terrain set needs woods. Well, sort of. With the desert/arid terrain I am building a proper wood, with lush green trees would not be fitting, but some area terrain with tall growing plants - let's call it a wood.
The wood needs to look good, and be playable - so I need removable trees. I based all the terrain from this set on 3mm ePVC sheets, so I started thinking how I could embedd tree bases into that, without bulding another layer on top of the 3mm.
Then, by chance, I received an advertisement mail from Kromlech, for A4 sized ePVC sheets in different heights. 2mm + 1mm is about three, so I bought a couple.
The plan now is to drill holes in the 2mm thick sheets, which takes a washer nicely, and glue the 1mm as bottom below. The washers will allow for magnetic storage of the trees.
After two test drillings, I found a fitting combination of washer and drill bit (they drill slightly larger into the ePVC than their nominal diameter).
I then planned out four sheets, which will all fit together with the trees in one of my storage boxes.
As the test showed, it is not a good idea to drill through the ePVC from one side; rather I slightly drilled into it, then reversed it and drilled the rest from the other side. This resulted in less frayed edges. Except where I pushed too hard and did push through from one side - happened on each sheet.
My next job is, to drill all the rest of the sheets, and then sand the edges, before gluing on the bottoms. Let's get cracking…
In case you want to try this at home, a word of warning. Drilling into the ePVC gets quite messy, that is the reason for all of the background in the pictures being newspaper.