"We want...... a shrubbery"

So as I've managed less than two

    To appease the knight who say "Ni,", the makings  of a shrubbery

hours' painting this last week (- usual excuses, lethargy, the weather, surgery etc.) and I also  haven't finished the fairly arduous (imo) task of writing up my last Jimland adventure, here's some more things that I managed to do in April.
In my last, as yet unpublished, foray  into Jimland I used some of my plastic jungle bits and pieces to mark out the playing area.

Photo courtesy of Frederick Cartington's latest expedition

In addition to the"shrubs" marking the limits of the playing area I added a few more for I added a few more to pad out the terrain , which is fairly sparse imo for both jungle and especially in the grasslands.
These can be seen in the photograph to the left, looking particularly plasticky.

First few attempts.

I decided that I really needed to make some, in part to represent  outcrops of scrub  that will be merely dressing for the game and won't provide cover or be obstacles to movement.
I gathered the various materials that I would need to make my version of the very popular tufts (I've always thought it a strange fixation wargamers seem to have for them).





The things I used can be seen in the top photograph :

'Finished' scrub land with Masked natives for scale.

A Poundlandworldbuy paste brush (disassembled and sans handle), originally bought to use as an experiment in thatching; some 20mm washers that I buy by weight and use for my zombie games; some coarse string that I've used for grass for what seems like forever and various bits of grassland plastic bits left over from my jungle making exploits. Together with my newly acquired Xmas-pressie glue gun I went work on these.
The process was fairly simply, great glob of hot glue (my fingers will attest that it is hot!) on the washer, stick some grass-like bits from the paste brush or plastic bits into it  and wait until it sets.
I used a roll of grease-proof paper to work on, in the hope I could peel the glued bases off afterwards (worked a treat). Next step was to add filler and paint the bases where the glue was a dark brown/black (burnt umbra) a dry brush of green on the base with a sprinkling of sand over PVA glue finished the bases off. The various paste brush bits were painted with a watered-down acrylic in various hues of green.

Another view of  the scrub, covering an area about 2 foot by 2 foot

The plastic bits have yet to be done but are fairly usable as they are. I did find the bristles of the paste brush to be about twice the length of I wanted, so I cut them in half, after the glue had set in the first piece and used the 'stub' for a second one. Trimming the scrub afterwards gave some suitable (imo) looking scrub.
It wasn't a difficult task (but a bit tedious and boring), so much so it took only about an hour to complete about 80 pieces as I found I could glue gun about 5 at a time.

It only took about another hour or so to completed them after the filler had gone on and had dried.

Yet another view of my scrub-land (boring huh?)

A Lidl mat, cut vaguely in half (obligatory very boring picture)

In my latest adventure into Jimland, my expedition and are having seemingly endless encounters with streams. I did like the idea I had of the variable width stream, but I did make the banks to steep and consequently l've had many problems standing figures on them. To remedy this I'm going to abandon the terrain board I've been using and look instead to using the mats from Lidl/Aldi for my adventures in Jimland.
I've cut one mat in two, giving a roughly 39" square; Jimland requires a a 30" square playing area, so my 39" square will allow a native set-up area rather than being 'off-table' at the start of each encounter.

The new river/stream 'board' (still fairly boring).

The second half of the mat was has a cut made from 15" in on opposite sides to get a stream effect, that won't have figures falling all over themselves!
An as it will fit on the bard length-wise, it will also follow the flow of the plastic sheet 'sea; that I use underneath (Clint).

LOOK !  A very thin boring stream!

So that's it from me this week, I'll get back to writing up the latest expedition into Jimland, as i really want another game and don't wan a back-log of adventures to have to write -up.

So that's it from me for another week, I've padded this post out as much as I could in the hope that you'll find something of interest amongst the boring bits.

As always your comments, questions, queries, bouquets and brickbats are always welcomed and appreciated.