Help needed with my wood

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Help needed with my wood

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I’m planning on a massive terrain drive in order to get some consistency through my tables.
I’ve been down to the local woods, yes a notorious dogging spot... I’ve sieved through the discarded condoms, abandoned dog excrement and hastily left flytip piles to accumulate a sack of sturdy twigs.

I want to go down that sort of last valley look, topping with the rubberised horsehair I bought 180 years ago.

How is the best way of attaching these to the wooden bases?
Hot glue gun (sexy. Second only to a dremel)?
Screwed?
Stryrene layer?

Any tips and techniques gratefully received from you master-terrainers
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Hot glue gun. Make sure you wipe the end, you filthy beast.
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Hot glue gun. Naked chef style
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Have you got a Dremel?
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Terrain is a comin', oh yeah.
Terrain is a comin', oh yeah.
Terrain is a comin',
Terrain is a comin'
Terrain is a comin', oh yeah.

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Another vote (clean this time) for a hot glue gun.
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I’m doing the same at the moment and drilled my ‘trunks’ and pushed a metal spike into it and the MDF base with copious amounts of glue.

But I wish I’d seen this tutorial before I started:
http://wpggamegeeks.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... quest.html
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That is similar to what I did but I hotglued a clout nail to the base and then drilled the trunk to accept the nail, fixing it with more hotglue.
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levied troop wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:45 pm I’m doing the same at the moment and drilled my ‘trunks’ and pushed a metal spike into it and the MDF base with copious amounts of glue.

But I wish I’d seen this tutorial before I started:
http://wpggamegeeks.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... quest.html
I love it when he talks dirty like that.
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Hot glue guns seem to be the answer.
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