I built a wargaming table a couple of months ago and have some terrain, mostly hedgerows and a ruined farmhouse. I needed trees, so I bought 56 of them…armatures, anyway. I am awfully concerned with detail and trying to make things look right, so I couldn’t just leave the trees on their regular bases. I based them on washers, glued sand, and spray-painted them.
The next step will be to paint the bases with the same paint I used on the wargaming table, dry brush half to most of them with a very dark gray, add foliage and static grass. The last parts will come later. For now, here is the progress: