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"Road to Rangoon" will chronicle my building of a Burma theater board for Adepticon 2016 BA Nationals and, later this year, a British army based in the CBI Theater. First up are some jungle stands and Type 97 wrecks. The trees in each stand consist of some plastic palm trees and low plastic shrubbery I ordered from a Chinese seller on Ebay for about $16. I intermixed them with some low "deciduous" clump foliage trees from Woodland Scenics and some plastic aquarium plants. The stands and bases are textured with my usual play sand ground mixture, with four circular sections left untextured on each base to accommodate four jungle stands. There's even a small log trail through one based on a picture I came across.



More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2016/01/road-to-rangoon-burma-1943-wip-jungles.html

Very nice, something different than the usual european villages etc you see.

What are you using for bases for your terrain? i have tried a few things but they just dont cut it.

 col. krazy kenny wrote:
What are you using for bases for your terrain? i have tried a few things but they just dont cut it.

2-3mm hardboard MDF

You can buy it at any hardware store - Lowe's/HD/Menard's sells them in 4x4 sections for about $5 each. I'm lucky to get mine through work at a steep discount

 ancientsociety wrote:

 col. krazy kenny wrote:
What are you using for bases for your terrain? i have tried a few things but they just dont cut it.

2-3mm hardboard MDF

You can buy it at any hardware store - Lowe's/HD/Menard's sells them in 4x4 sections for about $5 each. I'm lucky to get mine through work at a steep discount

Thanks,i will just need to find me a cheap scroll saw,now off to check local pawn shops.

I would suggest using British wrecks. I found the idea of the 6th Army battling its way past the detritus of it's earlier defeats quite engaging.

I realize its a bit late now

Very Nice, please post more of this sort of things

The stands of trees look very good. Are you going to give them a bit of colour?

In case you're interested, the only Japanese armoured unit in Burma was the 14th Tank Regiment. Prior to late 1944, all it had were obsolete types, like the Type 95 Ha Go, Type 97 Te-Ke and Stuarts that had been captured from the British 7th Armoured Brigade. By July 1944 it had virtually been wiped out, and was re-equipped with newer tanks including Type 97-kai Shinhoto Chi-Has. It was destroyed in March 1945.

Looking forward to more pictures. Great start.

Well, for my first foray into building removable jungle bases, I'm actually pretty happy with the result. To make the plastic trees "pop", I drybrushed the tops of the leaf canopies with lighter shades of green. The juxtaposition between tall, vibrant palms and low, leafy evergreens really evokes the feeling of thicker jungle without cluttering each base with foliage that would make them a problem to maneuver troops through.



More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2016/01/road-to-rangoon-burma-1944-completed.html