I've been thinking about making some bocage for a while now and have seen a number of excellent examples on t'web and at shows; so I thought I'd try out a small test piece to see if my ideas were okay. It's simply a thin strip of blue styrofoam glued to a piece of card (to protect the edges). I've shaped the foam to give more sloping sides then applied a good layer of gritty sand.
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| Styrofoam is best sliced with a bread knife |
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| Shaped, textured and painted in earth colours |
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| A light garnish of your favourite flock or grass |
The earth colours are my usual recipe followed by a mixture of Woodland Scenics clump foliage much like the
hedges I made a couple of years back.
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| Hans posing ... the hedge is about 45mm high |
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| A better height comparison |
Further pieces will have more tufts and flowers plus incorporate tree stumps, bushes, fencing, old bits of farm junk, etc. Longer sections will allow for a greater variety of height too - some of the real bocage is 15-20 feet or more! But this was just a 'proof of concept' so I kept it quite modest. One of the future Normandy campaign games requires a sunken lane leading in to a village, so a few feet of this should do the trick nicely!
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