How did you make the trees?

We were asked by a couple of youngsters today, how we made the lichen trees.

The lichen grows on trees in pure air so you'll find it well off the traffic routes, I guess. It's more grey than green. I pick it off the ground. Taking it from the tree might mean cutting off the future supply.

Then it's painted using GW paints or well watered down emulsion. I bought a tester tin of Willow Creek from Ideal Home in Moreton-in-Marsh for less than £3.00. They will mix up the colour you want.


The lichen dropped in the jar with watered down paint and rolled about is far quicker than painting. When it's dry, it's quite brittle. Not sure if it's ideal for gaming but it looks good.

You end up with green lichen that you need to fix onto something tree-ish. Sometimes it comes on the end of a convenient twig so only roots are needed.


The stump of twig on the left here, I've glued onto a kebab stick (cocktail sticks for shorter trees and bushes) and then I'll build up the trunk and roots with green-stuff  and paint it.

I'll perhaps photo that later and put the result on here.

The bushes here are supported with two lengths of cocktail sticks glued into the polystyrene mound. The mound was all painted up before the bushes were added.

I've used a little lighter green or yellow on the tips of the branches.

You wouldn't think there were another 42 Rangers hiding in there would you.