The Land of Counterpane blog has a nice piece on basing figures. We all have our methods, but it’s nice to see how others do it.
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Making Jungle Trees
The Wargame Terrain Blog has a photo tutorial on making jungle terrain.
Modeling Swamp Trees / Cypress
Here’s a video on modeling cypress trees / swamp trees.
Plastic Legion’s Battle Board
Plastic Legions has some photos of a terrific skirmish battle board of some ruins set aside a sea. Wonderful stuff. I’d love to play a pirate skirmish game on this.