Elusive

Been slow going with the bark, I've been able to do a branch then have to wait a day or two for it to dry. The trunk is just about 50mm around, can just measure from the trunk for the special rules.

I've been making some progress on The Hanging Tree from Malifaux. I've got most of it covered with the base coat of bark, gonna let it set over night and get the rest of the branches tomorrow and likely start adding details to the bark as well.

Ok the metal work is done.... now I need to make a hill for the base and cover the thing with caulk. The thing weighs over 5lbs as is.

I end up using silicone caulking for the bark and the brush strokes add in texture. I generally also use normal sculpting tools to add in knot holes.

Great looking crews you have going, the only thing I'd toss out idea wise would be to have the Collodi "stages" fit together at the edges. I know that can have a bit of basing over hanging the base but I think that could have it tie together great in a display board. Or just having some bits for a display board that gets them to connect could work.

Well I can say my hands are sore and I've come close to poking an eye out, thankfully I wear glasses, but I'm making some progress and I now have a smaller wire to help branching out a bit.

I'm sure that now that I'm started working on the tree itself this should be over in another category but I don't want to clutter up the place with excess topics.

The way I'm reading into The Hanging Tree its going to be huge. Since it's supposed to loom over the Governor's Mansion, which I was guess to be 3 stories plus an attic so about 12"-16", I'm expecting the tree I'm making to be about 18"-22" tall with several inch thick trunk. I've got a Jack Daw and a set of hanged on the way to decorate it but I'll need to build a suitable hill for it to sit upon.

Thanks for the links Math Mathonwy, I've added them to my reference file. Omenbringer, I've seen the models that Wyrd has done but they're all much to small, specially with the description saying "grown well beyond the typical height, easily surpassing oaks" but I am looking to make it rather crooked/twisted similar to the sleepy hollow tree.

Thanks for the answer, I found one story in that so far about the impressive size of the mansion and the tree looming over all. "the massive Handing Tree whose legend had traveled beyond Malifaux and back on Earthside. It might have been a native knotwood tree through it had grown well beyond the typical height, easily surpassing oaks. The bark was smooth and grayish-black with sharp ridges twisting up its trunk to its leafless branches. Silhouettes of rope and the faint outline of bodies swayed in the darkness." So that got me some info, but how big is the Governor's Mansion supposed to be, 2-3 stories? So I'm thinking something like these for general shapes and thinking of getting Jack Daw and some of the hanged to put up in the tree once it's done.

I'm looking to make the hanging tree in downtown Malifaux ouside of the Governor General's HQ. I seem to remeber a story of it being almost as big as the mansion as well as being barren of leaves and having several hanging bodies that would reappear any time they had been cut down and disposed of. My issue is that I'm having problems finding that story again. Would anyone happen to know where that story is or have more info on that tree, even a drawing if there ever was one.