Sadly, the Grimdark world of the 41st millennium hadn't prepared me for the need for conventional plants. As usual, I had to go shopping.
Having a model railroading background, I immediately started looking for trees from those sources. Woodland Scenics has some nice stuff, but I needed to keep cost in check and didn't feel like paying for serious model railroading foreground quality trees. Instead, I looked to the staple brands of cheap model railroading: Life-like, Model Power, and Bachmann.
I was surprised to find that only Bachmann remained. The others had disappeared in the overall collapse of the model railroading hobby in the last decade. Still, Bachmann had what I needed.
The Bachmann Scene Scape line has several varieties of trees in multiple sizes. Best of all, a box has six trees and has an MSRP of $15US. That meant that for less than $60, I could forest my game board. Hobbylinc has the 5'-6" trees for $10.49 per six pack which worked out perfectly.
There's a Woodland Scenics pack of 24 4"-6" trees for $24.89. They definitely will do for gaming purposes but having seen them, I had to give them a pass. The Bachmann trees are 5-3/4" to 7-3/4", whereas the Woodland Scenics trees are the height advertised. I know it's fussy, but I don't want my knights to be able to look over the tops of the trees, even in games that don't use true line of sight.
Now on to figuring out how to base my new forest...
