Do Your Pirates Dare Go Into The Mangroves?

[Cacique Caribe]

My pirates will:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/72157709365896792/with/48191210106/

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=118935.30

As you will see in the first link, the trunks were made using scrap bits of plastic branches, and two other methods: 1) trunks made of wire and greenstuff, and 2) using thin wire coated with liquid latex.

But the tops of the trees were done using this rubberized “horsehair” material:

https://www.onlinefabricstore.net/1-x-24-rubberized-hair-.htm

It takes paint exceptionally well. Best if you tease it out throughly and leave more open spaces between branches. I learned that a bit late, as I got to the flocking stage.

I’m also working on several clusters of mangrove trees without bases, so as to give the impression that they are growing directly out of the water, or that it’s high tide.

Anyway, what are YOU guys using for mangroves?

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[kyoteblue]

Very creative work !!!

[willz]

Cool, I like them.

[Gone Fishing]

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen mangroves modelled before. Very well done!

[Darkest Star Games]

That is brilliant!  I  think they work quite well.  Very well done sir.

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[Cacique Caribe]

Thanks all so much!

I use expanded PVC sheets for my bases (3mm thick), though MDF could work also if you keep moisture to an absolute minimum.  When the armatures are ready to go on the base I use either greenstuff or superglue to affix to the base.  Then I apply a light coat of straight PVA and dust the base with fine tile grout.  After that sets hard like cement, I use diluted PVA (50/50) to “seal” the grout in place for good.  Paint, flock and spray varnish.

By the way, I even ordered this 36” x 72” vinyl mat for the mangrove islands and cays that I plan to make:

Mats by Mars: Sunny Caribbean Tabletop Wargaming Play Mat

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Andrew Beasley]

Excellent work.

You could use them in a future Water World style game and have air-boat races though I would be tempted to run a wet version of It Came From Beyond The Still…

[BravoSix]

I’ve said this elsewhere Dan, but FANTASTIC WORK! Wow!

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[JozisTinMan]

Answer: no!

 

Those look great, thank you for sharing

http://jozistinman.blogspot.com/

[Mike]

They are proper nice, and I thought my jungle scatter bases were ok until I saw these!

[Mr. Average]

Those look spectacular, and to answer the question in the post (if one imagines the Pirates in question have a gentleman’s gentleman like Wodehouse’s Jeeves), “I couldn’t advise it, sir.”

[Cacique Caribe]

I’ve just realized that Red Beard Baron’s tips for making vineyards might be a THIRD method for making the TOPS of mangrove trees:

 

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Cacique Caribe]

Andrew Beasley wrote:

Excellent work. You could use them in a future Water World style game and have air-boat races though I would be tempted to run a wet version of It Came From Beyond The Still…

That was somewhat what I had planned initially, a flooded Post Apoc world, and then a friend sent me some really nice 15mm pirates and Amazonian Indians.  Nice distraction.  🙂

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Mishima]

Fantastic work, and this popped up just in perfect time, as I’m now embarking on a Rung Sat Special Zone terrain. So mangrove scenery will be needed.

Thanks

Tim

Tim from Gomi Designs. 15mm Vietnam riverine. www.gomidesigns.co.uk

[Patrice]

Nice, and very inspiring!

http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
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[Cacique Caribe]

Glad you like it.  I still have quite a few others made and waiting to be painted.  Then the flocking of the leaves will be last.

Thanks.

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Bowman Stringer]

CC,

great work as always. Will steal some of these ideas. I’ve been in large mangrove swamps and they are intimidating. Not only do they make landfall almost impossible but you have to worry about who is lurking just behind all that growth. Lol.

[Cacique Caribe]

Bowman

Indeed.  Our mangroves in PR don’t have crocodiles but we have lots of stingrays and sharks that use the mangroves for giving birth.  Some of the sharks can get quite territorial and aggressive.

The mud crabs we have are also huge.  You could lose half a foot or hand if you touch the wrong spot.

I’m just glad we didn’t have crocs, like those in so many mangroves around the world:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34c4hb

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Deleted User]

I’m really liking those mangrove trees.

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