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| Trees for the Forest Resource |
This resource is actually the one I had a pretty good idea of in my head all along. Once I found tiny evergreen trees at a miniature dollhouse store, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The trees were good, but I realised that the hex was supposed to produce a resource, so I thought I should find some lumber or logs for it as well. The gentleman at the model train store was helpful at pointing out a milled lumber yard, but it seemed a little too advanced for the Settlers to have. Upon advising him I was looking for un-milled lumber, he told me he went and cut down some dead sticks that had fallen in the forest behind his house for his model train set.
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| Dead sticks for the Lumber |
Well, I don't have a forest by my house, but I did find some sticks while walking my dog. Now, despite my dog's affinity for tracking down sticks, dogs aren't a requirement to finding a good stick you can use for lumber. Apparently the most important thing to know is that it actually has to be a dead stick. If you snap it off a live tree there's problems with drying/shrinking or something along those lines (according to the man at the model train store). I eyeballed what I thought would be a good scale for my hex, and sawed several pieces approximately the same size. I then piled them into groups of three, stacking them on top of each other. I hot glued them into this formation, then soaked the final piece in my white glue/podgy concoction to seal everything in.
While placing the pieces on the hex, it seemed unbalanced. So I decided to throw a river in there to round out the hex. I used the same hot glue on wax paper strategy I used for the sheep ponds. Except this time, instead of using paint, I used permanent marker. It dried much faster, was WAY less messy, and looks essentially the same. Hindsight is 20/20.
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| Finished Wood Hex |
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