When we released the new resin hedges, O Dinas Powys asked:
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 05 July 2016, 11:37:10 AM
Any chance of some isolated clumps and bushes? :-\
... So the question is what other things would people like to see, and what size?
We've got John working on a few clumps of bushes for us, on circular bases of between 20mm-30mm, so while he's doing that we thought we might as well see what else people would want.
How about a broken section of fence or a broken gate, perhaps with a road sign on.
Also a model plinth in 10mm scale to add our own statues to?
Full and broken columns...there must be many more ideas?
Statues, plinths, fountains (small water dispensers or large decorative), horse troughs, pissoirs (Pendraken: the only company that makes 10mm scale pissoirs), menhirs, *cough* Police boxes *cough*, classic BT phone boxes...
Wrecked guns, carts and wagons, wayside cross, well.
Like all the ideas above.
Postboxes could be another option. Different eras and nationalites too. You could start getting into stuff for model railways this way too!!
Pallets, piles of boxes or crates.
I think there is already a plinth (George Washington?) and certainly there are cases, boxes, barrels, piles of roundshot, etc scattered around existing ranges. Wrecked guns and wagons would be good, but they are not exactly difficult to make (even for a fat fingered idiot like me) from guns and wagons! What about telegram poles, useable from 1866-ish onwards?
Mollinary
Pots, pithoi and amphorae. They ranged in size from domestic cookware to things a tall man could stand in and not be visible from outside. They were the ancient equivalent of the barrel and yet they're almost impossible to find as wargames scenery. A nice cluster of them or a number of individuals (or both) would be useful.
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I've got post boxes, skips and telephone boxes from railway suppliers at a quite reasonable price.
Ladders. I've tried making siege ladders and ... it wasn't a happy experience.
I'd like to see Techno's animals released.
Also some 10mm farm animals would be good.
Haystacks? Suitable for hiding the new Jagdpanther in. (I realise taht leaves us open to a discussion about how various cultures built haystacks, but I ain't that fussy.)
Fences (rather than boundary hedges)
Didn't know you were into Animals' Rights,
Thanks for all the replies, I'll pass those onto John. A lot of those would need to be done in metal though, so are there any more natural/scenery type things people would like?
Not a small scenic base but a building I'd like to see would be a small wooden Russian church - something suitable for Napoleonic to WW2 or beyond.
To give a rough idea of what I'm meaning
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5f/c4/1b/5fc41bb961af74c32a20422b2dad2c05.jpg)(http://at-web.org/holiday-travel-online/images/photo-Kizhi-island-church-pics-hh_df1694949.jpg)(https://04varvara.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/00-lake-vuoksa-church-06-russia-15-12-14.jpg?w=1200&h=800)
That could be one for the future, John's currently working on a new Antietam church to replace the old one.
Actually the Antietam church with an onion dome, as in the first couple of pictures, instead of the square section bell tower (or whatever it is) would probably do the job nicely. Possible to do a twofer?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 July 2016, 11:35:02 PM
Actually the Antietam church with an onion dome, as in the first couple of pictures, instead of the square section bell tower (or whatever it is) would probably do the job nicely. Possible to do a twofer?
Possibly, we'll have a look at that once it's been finished, could be a go-er.
Leven make a church rather like that, if you're ok with 1:300 buildings.
Ah, and ladders would certainly be welcome additions, though I'm not sure about materials. Fragility seems a problem.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 July 2016, 12:48:23 AM
Leven make a church rather like that, if you're ok with 1:300 buildings.
Wendy houses! :D
Quote from: Leon on 18 July 2016, 10:37:34 PM
Thanks for all the replies, I'll pass those onto John. A lot of those would need to be done in metal though, so are there any more natural/scenery type things people would like?
Hedgerows with different gates, one including a stile would be good
Scruffier hedges.... differing heights in sections with some small gaps or broken areas within the section
Hedgerows with exposed fences within the hedges
Haystacks also gets my vote.
Streams with decent banks. I've had multiple tries at making streams all of which have been crap :( If one could be made with a ford that would be lovely and similarly one that could accommodate the pendraken wooden bridge....
A village pond? With a fountain in it?
Small coppices?
Manure piles?
Patches of gardened ground - like those found on allotments with veg growing.....
Flowerbeds
You did ask :P
I did get allotments from ... um ... they're quite good ... from ...
Nope. I'll have to check it out when I get home. :(
Timecast?
Shell holes, say sized between 1 penny and 2 pence pieces.
and 10cm x 10cm fields, some ploughed and some with waist high wheat. Or do them a size that allows them to be mated with your walls and hedges.
Small shell holes (10-30mm diameter in loose clusters) and a couple of bigger ones 30-50mm would be handy as markers & as covering terrain, although they're relatively easy to make!
Haystacks / hay ricks etc would be handy.
Shell holes too.
With some of the stuff that already exists as individual metal items (such as boxes) it would be handy to have larger piles of them in resin, to act as terrain. Whereas the metal ones are more useful to add to vehicles or bases to give a bit of character.
Good evening!!
an idea not very cheerful, but that would be very helpful with the walls for example,
- tombs to cemetery
- A small chapel
- a well
- A watering hole
- A city fountain
- Barriers of different types
- High hedges like Norman Boccage
- Rubble elements to put against a ruined house
- The stack of cut wood or tree trunk for our forests
surely more to come for ideas ......
eric
Quote from: bradpitre on 19 July 2016, 06:56:43 PM
Good evening!!
- The stack of cut wood or tree trunk for our forests
surely more to come for ideas ......
eric
Cut wood stacks already exist, produced last year to help reproduce the Swiepwald battle of 1866, and they are beautiful!
Mollinary
Quote from: mollinary on 19 July 2016, 07:10:55 PM
Cut wood stacks already exist, produced last year to help reproduce the Swiepwald battle of 1866, and they are beautiful!
Mollinary
FPX3 and FPX4 in the 19th Century Accessories Category.
Some *great* ideas here....so, I'll say, "all of the above" ;)
Quote from: nikharwood on 19 July 2016, 10:12:49 PM
Some *great* ideas here....so, I'll say, "all of the above" ;)
as Nik said................
Quote from: Norm on 19 July 2016, 01:20:18 PM
Shell holes, say sized between 1 penny and 2 pence pieces.
and 10cm x 10cm fields, some ploughed and some with waist high wheat. Or do them a size that allows them to be mated with your walls and hedges.
Maybe Leon could stock a couple of these?:
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC03828_zpswnufleeo.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC03828_zpswnufleeo.jpg.html)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC03823_zpsussaw0we.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC03823_zpsussaw0we.jpg.html)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC03824_zpsr9bfgmit.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC03824_zpsr9bfgmit.jpg.html)
They are from ironclad and work just great for 10 mm. Labeled as 'small craters'/ They have big craters too, but didn't get those.
Resin cactus would be good. Both the giant Arizona types and prickly pear.
Lengths of something that looks like 'snake rail' fence would be a real go'er for ACW...needn't be too high or perfect...(rails taken for firewood/battered down, etc.)...just the effect of a fence.
Small bog pools...pools surrounded by 'reedy' edging. Could be scattered to indicate boggy ground rather than the defined marsh areas available elsewhere.
Generic foxholes...empty to allow cut down troops to be inserted or left abandoned.
We've been chatting about rail fences for some time now, but they're a pain to do in resin. John at Ironclad is working on some test pieces so once we've got something robust enough for retail, we'll let everyone know.
8)
Easy if tedious to make - using match sticks.
IanS
In 10mm scale? You must use really really thin matches...
Quote from: Leon on 22 November 2016, 02:08:59 AM
... rail fences .... they're a pain to do in resin.
I can well imagine. But you have to get it right.* It may be an over simplification but if Total Battle Miniatures could make 10mm versions of their 6mm ones, problem solved?
http://www.totalbattleminiatures.com/bigbattalions/6mm/americana.html (http://www.totalbattleminiatures.com/bigbattalions/6mm/americana.html)
Anyway, I have a good number of photographic examples of rail fences from the various Civil War battlefields I have visited. Unfortunately, I am a dunderhead when it comes to posting photos on the Forum from my MacBook but if you or John would like me to e-mail these examples, please drop me a PM and I will be happy to do so.
* I have seen some home-made ones from cocktail sticks and the like - a lot of people are taken in by them but frankly, they are almost laughable, and, having seen the 'real' thing (reconstructions actually), I never have the heart (badness?) to point out how wrong they are.