I’ve been wanting to make an epic scaled forest for a long time now and this weekend I finally had all of the pieces to start.

I got a roll of 1/16 inch cork. Thick enough to stick trees in yet thin enough not to look out of place.

I traced some shapes with a sharpie marker shooting for pieces about 3" long in organic shapes.

I think cut out the shapes (I used a titanium bladed scissors, but an exacto knife would work.

Then I took a can of super 77 put a then spray on the cork pieces and stuck them to a piece of construction paper. The reason I did this was to give the cork sheet something to pull it flat and give it a tendency to stay flat.

then I cut out the shapes from the construction paper by tracing a knife around the out side of the cork.

Next i carefully cut a 30-60 degree angle into the edge of the cork sheet to remove the abrupt lip.

After the pieces were shaped to my liking - they are ready for paint and flock and then trees can be pushed in for a modular terrain piece.

* last pictures I couldn’t wait to stick trees in so here I’m showing unpainted, unflocked pieces with slightly difference sized conifer trees. these are between 1" and 2.5" tall simulating a 25"-60" tree. My trees need to be a little closer to the ground but that can weight until after I’m flocked.

The nice thing about doing trees like this is they can easily be moved without disturbing the whole forest, you get a base to count as difficult terrain and a boundary to use for blocking line of sight.