As some of you know I'm making Dragon's Fallschirmjager
this one:
and I prepared base for him
What you think about it. Tree is little higher than my figure. there supposed to be a corner of wooden fence but I left to little space so there won't be fence (I think).






P.S. base is still covered with masking tape
All comments are welcome

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Thanks Rudi, you repliend and posted this pic while I was correcting my mistake (if hurry you need twice more time to do something)

No problem, Marcin...

What did you use for the wild grass? Looks interesting...

Hey Marcin. The basis of your tree looks good, but the leaves appear way over scale. I hate to put a damper on things, but feel its better said now than in the future. The tree base looks good. Maybe covering whats here with smaller leaves might work. At 1/16 scale, detail is unforgiving.
I have this figure at home and hope to start it shortly and will be looking forward to more posts.

Thanks Rudi,
I used plumbers' tow (method seen here) It's the easiest and cheapest method I know (plumbers tow cost in Poland about 1,25 EUR and for this base I haven't used more than 1% of it)
Plumbers' tow has one more advantage - you don't need to paint it to simulate dried wild grass

Frank, maybe you're right. I'll try put the figure on base and I'll see how this looks together.

I have to agree wiht Frank above about the leaves, that jumped right out at me. Without the figure next to it, it's hard to tell how he rest of the tree will look.

I agree the leaves just don't look right--they look puffy. While they also appear to big, showing an example of the foilage could help. Around here there are some small trees with enormous elephant ear-like leaves. There is a prototype for most everything.

Thank you all for yours opinions.
What would you suggest for leaves, bright spring leaves?
What do you think about rest of the base?

For leaves ... more of the same, only smaller.
As for colour ... you´ll have to decide that yourself. You have nice wavy grass ... and the leaves colour you´ve already got, could make a summer scene. An autumn scene could have brown/yellow/orange leaves, with more on the ground and fade the grass a bit. If you go for a summer scene, some wild flowers would look great. Even a stone would sit nicely, as farmers would throw stones to a field edge or near an area they cant farm.
The base as is, looks fine


I don´t fully agree with this. From what I see here, Id add some colour.
The tree trunk and branches you´ve used do look really good ...what are they? Id find modelling a tree in 1/16 scale frightening. To get acceptable details is going to be a tough one.
Id love to see an image with the figure ... even if not painted. It would give us all a much better sense of composition.

The base looks great I have to agree the leaves look just a tade to big but other then that excellent work.

Ron

Here you have some pics with figure (btw what you think about it)




for the first sight tree looks too small for this figure but as watched willows outdoors I think proportions are correct




The tree trunk is a root found in my parents garden last year

Good work and great collaboration.
One thing I would like to add with the leaves is a 'main vein'. The leaves look mono-tone (in the pictures). I would add a line down the middle of each leaf to represent the vein. I would use a color a bit darker green than the leaves.

Hi Marcin

Good to see a mate from Poland:)

As for the base:

- I agree with Frank that the leaves are way to big for this scale, but there's a simple solution (if you make the decision that you want to change it, as it can be a bit tricky to get rid of all those already glued sponge pieces) and that would be Heki coarse/fine turf, it's a coloured sponge, cut into small pieces. Those sponge pieces are not bigger than 0,4cm, so I guess it would look ok on that tree (at 1/16, 0,4cm means around 7cm in "reality" which is the right size for a leaf)

- the rest of the base looks good, but again I have to agree wth Frank that you should put some color on that grass, or at least darken the lower parts of the grass, to make it more natural

- personally I would add some stones and vary the soil a bit, to make it more uneven, but it's not neccessary

It looks good now, but with a bit of work it can look even better:)

Take care and hope this helps a bit,

dsc.

Thanks for your comments.
I think there won't be any problems with getting rid of leaves, It just wil be boring. As soon as i have some spare time I'll go to lhs for Heki leaves.
Then I'll see if it's nessesary or possible to paint main veins as Scott suggested.