I particularly wanted to capture the twisted, convoluted look of old vines so used short lengths of wire twisted and bent as the armatures than glued these in rows to strips cut from some left-over flexible bathroom flooring.
The bases were finished off with flexible decorators filler and decorated with grit and sand, as my usual figure basing method and foliage added using Woodland Scenics clumping foliage, run through a kitchen blender to make the clumps smaller.
The finished strips are shown here on one of my multi-purpose terrain area pieces that could be an open or enclosed field, orchard, plantation… depending on what marker pieces are used.
I have done a full description of the process with some more pictures on my blog:
http://smallitalianwars.blogspot.co.uk
