Arid Scenery

[TinyTerrain]

Hi,

I have just posted on my blog the first WIP shots of the scenery I am making for my Crusades rules, "The Crescent & The Cross".

http://wargames.blog.co.uk/2014/01/13/operation-sandstorm-on-the-rocks-17587182/

For those who don't bother with blogs, here's a taster pic of the first of 4 big rocks, with Pendraken  Longbow units for scale:



As I make my new desert scenery I will be posting how to guides on my blog, so please pop by over the next few weeks if your interested in how I make 10mm palm trees, adobe buildings, an oasis, and scatter terrain suitable for drier climates.

Best regards,

Craig
Tiny Terrain Models

[FierceKitty]

I go for a dry and desolate look myself in crusades games. Strange, when it's obvious that it was the lush and habitable bits that were important to fight over. For every one desert engagement, there must have been fifty in well-cultivated farmland.

In short, we are creatures of habit and stereotype!

[TinyTerrain]

Hi FK,

Of course your right, but I dont have any terrain suited to drier climates, and for me troops mounted on camels just look wrong fighting in lush Western hedgerows 

Cheers,

Craig
Tiny Terrain Models

[Steve J]

We had a wonderful science and nature venue in Bristol, called @Bristol. Sadly only the science part is still going. But in the nature bit they had an interactive display showing the effect of desertification in Africa and the Arabian peninsula over the past 1,000 years or so. I was amazed at how lush and verdant Yemen was even 300-500 years ago, so it is not entirely implausible that much of the Middle East was similar in Spring and Autumn during the Crusades.

[Techno]

Looking good Craig !!
Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

I don't think anyone fought on camelback in the crusades.

[Womble67]

Will be watching this with interest. By the way I like you blog

take care

andy

[Hertsblue]

We had a wonderful science and nature venue in Bristol, called @Bristol. Sadly only the science part is still going. But in the nature bit they had an interactive display showing the effect of desertification in Africa and the Arabian peninsula over the past 1,000 years or so. I was amazed at how lush and verdant Yemen was even 300-500 years ago, so it is not entirely implausible that much of the Middle East was similar in Spring and Autumn during the Crusades.

I've seen the UAE desert after a couple of days of rain - it's suddenly green! Doesn't take much to make the vegetation shoot up.

[TinyTerrain]

I don't think anyone fought on camelback in the crusades.

Agreed, was being facetious for comic effect 

Cheers,

Craig

[FierceKitty]

Sorry. One just reads some odd ideas about the crusades here.  Glad that you obviously don't think Saladin was an Arab.

[Hertsblue]

No, he was a Lemon Curd.