A tiny 15mm Peter Laing figure to give a scale idea of these fir trees.
More useful Christmas gifts, making the most of the riches of the season in the shops, are these rocky snow ‘deco sand’ stone lumps and fir tree clips.
The fir tree clips are from Sainsbury’s HOME range, designed as “present clips”, whatever they are. I saw their potential as 15mm size snowy pine trees, once removed from the wooden pegs. They have their own wooden bases but might need the heft of washer bases or penny bases.
The spare clothes pegs themselves have other household or craft uses such as tiny Clothes Peg WW1 biplanes that I featured last year:
The ‘deco sand’ rocks are probably crushed white quartz and come in two sizes, presumably for inertly holding candles or flowers. They should add well to my snowy landscape Scouting Wide Games.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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2 thoughts on “Clipping the Fir Trees for Christmas?”
Terrific foraging filled with much potential. I have never seen fir trees in that scale so this is a great find to tell folk about. The snow rocks could be casualty markers either as they are or with a discreet number written on them. They also have general scenery useage. I await the Dobbies sale with Lemax possibilities too…
Terrific foraging filled with much potential. I have never seen fir trees in that scale so this is a great find to tell folk about. The snow rocks could be casualty markers either as they are or with a discreet number written on them. They also have general scenery useage. I await the Dobbies sale with Lemax possibilities too…
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I have not seen such tiny trees before. As always I will regret not buying more.
Have fun at Dobbie’s!
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