Terrain Workshop: Trees 26

When you have trees on a battlefield in MFZ: Rapid Attack one of the things that is hard to simulate is the overhang and canopy coverage of tree branches.  One of the reasons behind this is it's hard to move your Frames around on the table if you have to reach under things a lot.  Also the general size of RA playing pieces would mean that trees would have to be built pretty tall to achieve this effect.  But recently, after purchasing the Friends Adventure Camp Treehouse set, I had a bit of a brainstorm.

Starting with two Arched Door Frame 1x6x7 w/Notches and Rounded Pillars

placed back to back to represent the trunks and intertwined branches of the

trees, we add four 1x2 Round Plant Plate w/Layered Leaves to represent,

well, leaves.  This is 22' tall, 30' long, and 15' wide -- from leaftip to leaftip --

 in 6P scale.  As it's only six pieces it would be 1 Hit in MFZ: RA.

You can place two of these together on the same 6x6 Plate as long as the leaf pieces are aligned in the same direction.  This also creates a makeshift tunnel between the trees.

It's a somewhat tight fit but a

Classic can fit in the tunnel.

Size comparison with the usual suspects.

I hope this gives people ideas or techniques to use in their terrain builds. 

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