Your jungle is looking great, you're making me want to add more to my own jungle terrain. I have never been to Burma, but I do live in neighbouring Thailand and I have a few comments: *You would never see so much brown in the jungle, if a piece of land has sunlight it will have grass growing on it. (and if not kept down will very quickly be overrun by bushes and trees). A grass mat would be a more realistic underlay unless you are representing the ground under the jungle canopy. *For a jungle to exist there must be heavy rainfall and heavy rainfall creates lots of rivers, streams and water falls (also a great excuse to make a rope bridge) *Aside from the north of Thailand, Thailand is very flat (great for terrain builders), but what you do see are these lone mountains that are just like a giant rock jutting out of the ground. *If you are want to make a more inhabited area, placing some farms such as the ones you made in the "cheap and easy farm and crops scatter" video would work well particularly with some palm trees scattered between them. While rice paddies are plentiful in Asia, there are plenty of dry farms too. Farmland often buts hard up against the jungle.
"I've got a couple of big hanging balls that hang in the studio and I'm always plucking at them." hahaha can't believe you said this with a straight face!
I’ve been wanting to build a jungle set for twenty five years without a clue how to go about it. Your video has answered most of my questions / blocks. Thank you!!! All my other questions are about suppliers and tutorials for custom trees. So far I got as far as dishwashing sponges in a food blender stuck with pva to twigs and sprinkled with sawdust...
Mel, nice to see you back in your natural element. Thanks for the classical music intervals. I love when you get down at eye level to shoot your still photos. More of those please. It puts the viewer right into the action. Instead of a bird's eye view.
Outstanding Mel. Loving the BBB. A hut and maybe one of those buddha fish tank decorations could add to the table or a few buildings as a little village which the IJA are using to store munitions and the Chindits have to destroy it. Tall bamboo could work too, take a bunch of cocktail sticks and barbecue skewers, cut to size then spray green and glue them pointing up.
@@TheTerrainTutor Decent. Maybe a rounded base, quick prime and flock it and maybe if you've got the time to see about little vines for it? Loads of foliage and vines to make it look overgrown. good piece of line of sight blocking terrain.
Bloody awesome Mel I think my Japanese army would look awesome running around that terrain. I have a few ideas for you that might look cool 1, some hills/raised areas 2, some ruins like a lost temple or something? 3, some kind of water feature 2 giant balls hanging in the studio I keep plucking at 😂😂😂😂😂
Boulders and carvings/totems from indigenous tribes - not your Burma campaign specifically but with a jungle this advanced make it versatile for fantasy games - skull topped wooden effigies marking tribal borders, shrines and un/holy places...
Bloody awesome man! I was thinking what about some sort of river? You could do a stream and a river and then have a bridge (on the river kwai?) or even the ruins of a bridge! That could be a mission objective in and of itself! Destroy / save the bridge!
Nicholas Freeman my first animation company was with Alan Cumner-Price who built the model bridge for the movie bridge over the river Kwai. Long may his stiff stay stiff.
For a 6' by 8' table, you're going to need a railway modeler ladder to be able to move the troops to the center of the table. Looks awesome, I plan to do something "similar" to play Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago. I hope to be at least 50% as successful as you.
I believe the terrain you have done so far is secondary jungle; the high canopy growth you are going to be doing is primary jungle. Great collection so far mate :)
TamsinP agreed, a scattering of much taller trees will look awesome (with vines hanging from them) - wide bases evolved for shallow soil unlike European trees with narrow bases for deep soil. Paper mache time...
@@Nicklas_Danielsson Elephant grass grows to about 4-7 meters in height and it grows well in dry or wet tropical climates. Common in India, Asia etc.. If you saw the movie the Thin Red Line, it had them crawling threw it several times. It's just very tall grass, hence the name. . www.feedipedia.org/node/395
fantastic looking table! really enjoyed watching this project evolve as it has been a very helpful set of vids for a terrain novice such as myself, but Burma is of particular interest to me as a fellow Bolt Action Chindit player :-)
I love the sound of your Grand Vision, i can almost see it now in my mind. What a great goal to work towards. On the downside, the Mat seems like an unnecessary shortcut. I would've liked to have seen a How-to tutorial on making an actual game board. Good experiment though for anyone wondering.
Amazing work, Mel. Fun times ahead on that table! I would suggest boulder fields, bamboo groves, gullies (dry creek beds), deforested (bombed-out) areas, and a creek. Stirling job as ever, and best wishes always ~ Brett.
For your canopy pieces are you planning om making something like one of your drying racks with a canopy of shaped upholstery foam? That way you can move models through the terrain easily by lifting off the lid then models can be positioned to fire out between the trunks. I just saw another channel (yes I watch other terrain channels) use drinking straws to give him a placeholder to stick the trees in when making his jungle terrain this allows him to make the undergrowth without fighting around the tree foliage.
Very well thought out and superbly executed. The concave/convex cover works very well for making winding paths thru woods. I've been using that for donkey's years. Playing 6mm in WWII Ardennes or Hurtgen forest. You chose one of the two hardest terrains to wargame in and build for: Jungles and Cities. How do you plan to keep track of where your troops are? And how are you going to move them with all that canopy? Willow might come in handy with small hands and skinny fingers, lol.
Hi Mel, loving the jungle terrain. I know its not part of the 'personal build' but i was wondering if you could do some examples at 6mm scale? I'm struggling to get stuff to look right.
Mel, fabulous looking terrain. Nice to hear the long term plan. I'm really looking forward to the airstrip (Hardly any surprises there) Very inspirational, especially as I'm considering building a jungle sci fi area.....Hope you and your Family are keeping well? Kind Regards Johnny. PS I still awaiting my local QM to supply BB.
Hello friend, congratulations for that wonderful art, I would like to know if you can do a tutorial like doing static home turf. In the city where I live, they do not sell it and I want to add it to my models. Greetings from Bogota
Does the road really need 61 feet(18.75 m) of clear space? Assuming the scale of 1/61 for 28mm. I would model a jungle road, especially of the period at 1.5 times the width of a tank. Then I would choose foliage of an appropriate height to allow moving vehicles along the road but to not leave so much clear space.
“Significant proportion of the original creative intent” aka ‘the three second rule’ (for sampling) - from UK law. Some hip-hop history: the US law was changed when it was recognised that Bronx gangs were putting down weapons and picking up microphones to mc over looped beats usually from turntables. Of which the angel-loop eventually spawned drum&base movement, after Jungle pioneers experimented with ‘getting around copyright laws by using clever effects and technology’.
Your jungle is looking great, you're making me want to add more to my own jungle terrain.
I have never been to Burma, but I do live in neighbouring Thailand and I have a few comments:
*You would never see so much brown in the jungle, if a piece of land has sunlight it will have grass growing on it. (and if not kept down will very quickly be overrun by bushes and trees). A grass mat would be a more realistic underlay unless you are representing the ground under the jungle canopy.
*For a jungle to exist there must be heavy rainfall and heavy rainfall creates lots of rivers, streams and water falls (also a great excuse to make a rope bridge)
*Aside from the north of Thailand, Thailand is very flat (great for terrain builders), but what you do see are these lone mountains that are just like a giant rock jutting out of the ground.
*If you are want to make a more inhabited area, placing some farms such as the ones you made in the "cheap and easy farm and crops scatter" video would work well particularly with some palm trees scattered between them. While rice paddies are plentiful in Asia, there are plenty of dry farms too. Farmland often buts hard up against the jungle.
I'm thinking more the trails during monsoon season mate, I grew up in Shyamnagar ;-)
"I've got a couple of big hanging balls that hang in the studio and I'm always plucking at them." hahaha can't believe you said this with a straight face!
Fantastic table ! Seeing you with so much enthousiasm is really refreshing. All the best.
It's good to be back :-D
I « discovered » your channel last month, with the KS. Since this time, I watch 2 or 3 of your videos each day. So much good stuff ! 😃
I’ve been wanting to build a jungle set for twenty five years without a clue how to go about it. Your video has answered most of my questions / blocks. Thank you!!! All my other questions are about suppliers and tutorials for custom trees. So far I got as far as dishwashing sponges in a food blender stuck with pva to twigs and sprinkled with sawdust...
Search wish for model trees mate or check the realistic tree series in the greenery playlist ;-)
Mel, nice to see you back in your natural element. Thanks for the classical music intervals. I love when you get down at eye level to shoot your still photos. More of those please. It puts the viewer right into the action. Instead of a bird's eye view.
I like those shots as well
Outstanding Mel. Loving the BBB. A hut and maybe one of those buddha fish tank decorations could add to the table or a few buildings as a little village which the IJA are using to store munitions and the Chindits have to destroy it. Tall bamboo could work too, take a bunch of cocktail sticks and barbecue skewers, cut to size then spray green and glue them pointing up.
I've got a budda I want to use on it, might have to start thinking
@@TheTerrainTutor Decent. Maybe a rounded base, quick prime and flock it and maybe if you've got the time to see about little vines for it? Loads of foliage and vines to make it look overgrown. good piece of line of sight blocking terrain.
Bloody awesome Mel I think my Japanese army would look awesome running around that terrain.
I have a few ideas for you that might look cool
1, some hills/raised areas
2, some ruins like a lost temple or something?
3, some kind of water feature
2 giant balls hanging in the studio I keep plucking at 😂😂😂😂😂
All already on the list mate
Boulders and carvings/totems from indigenous tribes - not your Burma campaign specifically but with a jungle this advanced make it versatile for fantasy games - skull topped wooden effigies marking tribal borders, shrines and un/holy places...
Bloody awesome man! I was thinking what about some sort of river? You could do a stream and a river and then have a bridge (on the river kwai?) or even the ruins of a bridge! That could be a mission objective in and of itself! Destroy / save the bridge!
Oh that's part of the modular boards project
@@TheTerrainTutor look forward to it then!
Nicholas Freeman my first animation company was with Alan Cumner-Price who built the model bridge for the movie bridge over the river Kwai. Long may his stiff stay stiff.
For a 6' by 8' table, you're going to need a railway modeler ladder to be able to move the troops to the center of the table. Looks awesome, I plan to do something "similar" to play Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago. I hope to be at least 50% as successful as you.
Palm trees look gorgeous
Welcome back to your studio Mel. It's good to see you back where you belong :) Hope you're having a fantastic day.
Great day mate
the size of that work place....man i wish i had even HALF that much space...i have a 4ft folding table to paint/build terrain and models on...
I want to see at least one road section with a fallen palm tree over it so impromptu tracks have had to go around it.
I like that idea!
looking great Mel, how about some sort of railway or plane crash site?
Planes in trys is defo on the list
Full of live and enthusiasm great to see Mel ! Welcome back
Glad to see in you at your happy place. Wish I could live closer to you, the big pond is hard to cross.
I believe the terrain you have done so far is secondary jungle; the high canopy growth you are going to be doing is primary jungle.
Great collection so far mate :)
TamsinP agreed, a scattering of much taller trees will look awesome (with vines hanging from them) - wide bases evolved for shallow soil unlike European trees with narrow bases for deep soil. Paper mache time...
Thanks Tam
Have you thought doing just doing elephant grass? You could use them for river banks, if you ever do a river that is.
Hoehner Tim whats that??
@@Nicklas_Danielsson Elephant grass grows to about 4-7 meters in height and it grows well in dry or wet tropical climates. Common in India, Asia etc.. If you saw the movie the Thin Red Line, it had them crawling threw it several times. It's just very tall grass, hence the name. .
www.feedipedia.org/node/395
It's on the list mate
Absolutely brilliant! I must use some of your ideas for the Indochina/Vietnam table I want to build!!!!
7:35 "I've got a couple of big hanging balls that I keep in the studio and I'm always plucking at them" O Mel....
So atmospheric and so nicely done...cracking job!
You're gonna need home-brew rules for a Chindits vs. Predator game ;)
Oh yes! Got the predator models all ready!
Light foliage, heavy foliage, dense foliage, impossibly thick foliage.
That way you can avoid game terms
Functional and a work of art, mate. Wonderful and an inspiration. Thnx for sharing.
Welcome to the jungle!
We've got fun and games.
6x20!! I guess we should have known coming in that this project isn't called "moderately sized Burma build"
How do you keep track of your troops in all that? You're gonna have a few "stragglers". lol
I love that title!
fantastic looking table! really enjoyed watching this project evolve as it has been a very helpful set of vids for a terrain novice such as myself, but Burma is of particular interest to me as a fellow Bolt Action Chindit player :-)
looking great Mel
Just freaking awesome!!!
this terrain is wonderful
I love the sound of your Grand Vision, i can almost see it now in my mind. What a great goal to work towards.
On the downside, the Mat seems like an unnecessary shortcut. I would've liked to have seen a How-to tutorial on making an actual game board. Good experiment though for anyone wondering.
He's already done one in this series to make a mat
I'm going full bore with a modular 2x2 tiles later, the mat just gets us gaming now mate
@@TheTerrainTutor Can't wait! Thanks
Amazing work, Mel. Fun times ahead on that table! I would suggest boulder fields, bamboo groves, gullies (dry creek beds), deforested (bombed-out) areas, and a creek. Stirling job as ever, and best wishes always ~ Brett.
What about the bamboo (Dendrocalamus giganteus AKA Dragon or Giant Bamboo) native to Burma?
Wondering the same. Its one thing to build terrain like that, quite another to move figures thru. Probably extremely dense terrain - no movement?
On the list mate
Nice! Maybe som rock scatter pieces?
For your canopy pieces are you planning om making something like one of your drying racks with a canopy of shaped upholstery foam? That way you can move models through the terrain easily by lifting off the lid then models can be positioned to fire out between the trunks.
I just saw another channel (yes I watch other terrain channels) use drinking straws to give him a placeholder to stick the trees in when making his jungle terrain this allows him to make the undergrowth without fighting around the tree foliage.
Something along those lines matey ;-)
Don't forget to add a stream (ford) crossing for your jungle track... Then you can put it in your book!!!
There's a stream already in the book
@@TheTerrainTutor isn't that going to be rather damp on the pages? 🤔
Very well thought out and superbly executed. The concave/convex cover works very well for making winding paths thru woods. I've been using that for donkey's years. Playing 6mm in WWII Ardennes or Hurtgen forest.
You chose one of the two hardest terrains to wargame in and build for: Jungles and Cities. How do you plan to keep track of where your troops are? And how are you going to move them with all that canopy? Willow might come in handy with small hands and skinny fingers, lol.
Keeping track of your troops is half the fun of jungle warfare
@@TheTerrainTutor Not with my short term memory. lol
Mel, if you keep filming this build, we will watch you make a 6'x24' table.
that's the plan!
Great showcase here bud, very interesting, Cheers :-)
We've got fun and games!
Hi Mel, loving the jungle terrain. I know its not part of the 'personal build' but i was wondering if you could do some examples at 6mm scale? I'm struggling to get stuff to look right.
Mel, fabulous looking terrain. Nice to hear the long term plan. I'm really looking forward to the airstrip (Hardly any surprises there) Very inspirational, especially as I'm considering building a jungle sci fi area.....Hope you and your Family are keeping well? Kind Regards Johnny. PS I still awaiting my local QM to supply BB.
"Uh! Don't break mi plants..."
Oh, what I just thought of. Maybe mounting a camera right above your workspace to get a birds eye view. That way you can show terrain from above ;)
And mount it on a swing-arm like the desk lights we use.
Need to sort that for the book anyway mate
Hello friend, congratulations for that wonderful art, I would like to know if you can do a tutorial like doing static home turf. In the city where I live, they do not sell it and I want to add it to my models. Greetings from Bogota
Welcome back to the Studio, Mel! Very nice Terrain.
You are looking calm, to be back into the Studio!?
neat stuff like alll
BOLT ACTION BATTLE REPORT PLEASE!!
Rice fields! We need Rice fields with water effects. I know I am late to the game...but still
Make a hill for the set!
Jungle Edgy 😂😂😂😂
I need one aswell
Have you thought about some hills to block LOS?
Yes, larger features coming soon, need to figure how to get the valley feel
Need to put your bunkers in there somewhere mel
defo mate
Have you ever played with this terrain set?
Would plastic aquarium plants be of any use to this project?
wow
Does the road really need 61 feet(18.75 m) of clear space? Assuming the scale of 1/61 for 28mm. I would model a jungle road, especially of the period at 1.5 times the width of a tank. Then I would choose foliage of an appropriate height to allow moving vehicles along the road but to not leave so much clear space.
Depends on how many roads and paths you have mate ;-)
really bummed that you didn't sneak in a bit of the Guns and Roses track ;)
Not even a 2 second "aaah" from Axl? ;)
“Significant proportion of the original creative intent” aka ‘the three second rule’ (for sampling) - from UK law. Some hip-hop history: the US law was changed when it was recognised that Bronx gangs were putting down weapons and picking up microphones to mc over looped beats usually from turntables. Of which the angel-loop eventually spawned drum&base movement, after Jungle pioneers experimented with ‘getting around copyright laws by using clever effects and technology’.
Hello sir im like 3 years to late but where can I get those plants from? Are they special miniature plants or just cuttet from normal plastic plants?
Cut from normal plastic plants mate
@@TheTerrainTutor thank you very much sir! 🙏
??? All i could see was a talking above the jungle talk about camouflaged