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Although I'm painting my armies, I've decided to buy most of the scenery prepainted and table-ready.

Are there any good websites for table-ready bocage / hedgerows? I need a bunch of bocage for my Normandy board. I've looked and haven't found much. There is a seller on Ebay from England that looks good.

Thanks - Mez

As a guy who has scratch built 90% of my own stuff, I have to say hedgerows are the most labor, time, and material intensive project I have done. Plus you just need sooooo darn much of it to pull it off.

Shotgun wrote:As a guy who has scratch built 90% of my own stuff, I have to say hedgerows are the most labor, time, and material intensive project I have done. Plus you just need sooooo darn much of it to pull it off.

Exactly! Less time modeling is more time gaming! I don't mind a piece here or there however, but bocage - a ton of bocage - seems like a drag.

Nic

I copied this guys tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnu3zTEFcU&list=UU9Eaq7e8PGCtWTAS4EHCWVA&index=4&feature=plcp

This is the Cheapest, Quickest and most effective way of making bocage (Yes bocage is higher but you can clump more on it, or agree with your opponent before hand, remember NORMANDY is not the whole of Bloody Europe and Hedgerows are more useful than 1000 Sq KM of Hedges in Northern France!).

1000 x Jumbo craft sticks (Jumbo Lollipop Sticks)
Loads x Clump Foliage
1 x Glue Gun and Glue
1 x Can of Green Spray paint.

1. Spray sticks Green.
2. Apply layer of glue.
3. Add clump folliage.
4. Repeat 999 times.

I currently have 300 pieces, so thats 100ft of Bocage, I use about 20ft on FOW table. Still got 700 to go.....

I was given £50 by game club to solve this problem for their tournament, job done. Still got loads left over.

You can contact Luke from WWPD, as he's been working in his bocage mines for the past summer.

I made my hedges/bocage in the same way as mwnciboo except I found that the jumbo craft sticks had a horrible habit of warping as soon as you put any paint or glue on them.

In the end I made the bases for my bocage from cheap vinyl flooring tiles that I picked up from poundland. You can then cut them to any shape you want with a pair of scissors. I then used cheap spray glue (again from poundland) to spray the underside (this is already sticky, but not quite sticky enough) and then covered them in sand. I then painted them with cheap brown acrylic paint (this time from Wilkinson’s) and once this was dry I stuck foliage clusters onto them.

It took me a couple of evenings in front the TV but I’ve now got more than enough for a 6x4 table. The whole lot cost me about £10 and £7 of that was the foliage!

The same vinyl flooring tiles can also be used to make roads using the same method. Just paint your roads brown, black or grey depending on your preference.

*EDIT*
Here is a picture of a game I played recently using the Vinyl tile based hedges and roads. Not the most professional looking, but considering that 2 packs at £1 each made more than enough to cover a relatively busy 6x4 table, it's well worth trying out.