ACW, pics of my figs

[Aksu]

Hullo, having a bit time in my hands I set up a small battle diorama with my figs. It looks like I can only attach two images in a posting, so here are two teaser pics before I compile something for our club blog.
The figs in these pics should be mostly Pendraken, unless a stray Cracker Line has wandered into shot.
Cheers,
Aksu

[Aksu]

ah, silly me, I can attach other pics in replies

[Aksu]

and two more

[FierceKitty]

Mmmm. Looks as if you're ready to paint some real armies.

[Leman]

Fantastic. Two superb ARMIES from the best gaming period going, the C19th. Really love those western theatre flags.

[Techno]

Really, really like those, Aksu !
Great work ! 
Cheers - Phil

[wurrukatte]

excellent stuff

W

[Subedai]

I like...everything.

[cameronian]

Nice figures and very nice terrain.

[toxicpixie]

*Very* tasty! Tempts me to ACW

[paulr]

 

Both the figures and terrain

[fred.]

Very very nice, both the figures and the terrain - have you got some more?

[Steeleye]

Now that's what a wargame should look like.

[Leman]

I try to get my games looking like that these days, but it does take years to get the terrain pieces together to produce a busy looking table.

[Rob]

That looks great. Looks like a real battle, which to me is the main reason for using 10mm. Brilliant. 

[Womble67]

This is probably one of my favourite periods and your battlefield troops look brilliant, what did you use to make the cornfields they look really realistic.

Take care

Andy

[Aksu]

Hullo,
Thanks for all the positive comments. I can't say all my games would look like this, I can just about cover half a table with my current terrain collection. I really need to produce more of everything...
A few answers to some of the questions:
- The fields. The yellow wheat fields are out-of-the-box model railroad stuff, German (picked it up from a toy store in Munich, a great country for model trains etc). Busch Mini-Wildgras-Teppich 7292 it says on the bottom. It comes in 40x25 cm sheets in various colours. Seems to benefit from some flocking of the edges once you cut it into shape.
- The other fields are scratch built. Basically artists' cardboard (not sure what it is in english, the 2 mm or so stuff you buy at e.g. Cass Arts. Mount Board?) painted and flocked - some of them have the flock in rows, some are more fallow and have flock scattered. And the raised edges done with green-tinted pumice gel. These are my favourite terrain pieces at the moment, you can plonk a lot of them down to represent clear terrain in a rural setting.
- I really need to start doing these fields in a modular way, so that every edge follows some multiple of base width. Since I also play 15 mm with 30 and 40 mm base widths (Naps and Renaissance) it seems that 12 cm and 6/18 cm would be fairly ok base module lengths.
- The fences (which I am quite happy with) and the stone walls (which are not very good) are 12 cm in length (some of the stone walls are in 6 cm as well). Scratch built. I was quite happy with putting some model railroad "stones and grass" flocking mix into the base of the fences.

I will have more stuff up at our club site later today I hope.

Cheers,
Aksu

[Aksu]

Hullo,
I've uploaded a video on our Club Site, at http://www.the-ancients.com/gemigabok/acw-battle-diorama-video/
Please enjoy. The end credits list most of the figures used as the bulk of the armies.
Cheers,
Aksu

[Norm]

Very good - thank you. I need my table to look like that!

[lekw]

The figures look amazing, great idea making the video!!! Can I ask what size bases you are using? Just interested.