Pine Cone Trees and ideas for a Step Pyramid.
I have made wargame trees from several sources. Certain types of plastic Xmas trees come apart and the sections can be inserted in holes in a thick wooden base. You can get such trees for free off hard rubbish collections or very cheaply from op shops. Also at Xmas you can collect various toy Xmas trees from bargain shops, although you might prefer to spray them to get rid of snow effects or metallic color. Various sets of cowboys and Indians and farm or wild animal sets often come with plastic toy trees. At the more expensive end, Scheiche makes some large trees, including palm trees. In the 1980s I bought the 70s book, The First Book of Wargaming by Frank Perry. One picture intrigued me as it included pine cones for trees. I have since used a number of pine cones for this purpose. The process I use is to cut off the pine cone at the base end to form a flat base. This can then stand on its own or it can be glued with hot glue, Araldite or/and wood glue to beer coast...
