Hi all, it's been a while since my last post, but I had to get this posted...
In keeping with my last board set in Africa (See: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,5712.0.html) Ive done a new one based on Northern Europe - Russia in winter.
Unfortunately I didn't do a step by step, however here we go...
Me and my mate (Ant Aka Dim reaper) really like the winter idia of a new 15mm were doing. We thought about Bastogne from 'band of brothers' and in the winter (around the time we ordered the models) we were up walking in a secret yet massive wood that nobody else seams to know about. It's around 5miles walk from my place and the woods are around 3 square miles.
It was knee deep on places (I kid you not!) and it looked fab. We now call that wood "Bastogne" That was the influence for the board:
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/80BA56B1-ECDF-471D-B7FD-E6D8155D2DDE-20879-000013FAC51D5644.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/0E3E4883-ABDA-4A90-8752-C4293D8EDABF-20879-000013FAE5B521B2.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/DE6492BA-A854-4904-92A3-E4D6251AE1E5-20879-000013FAFC3E2FEC.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/F4F348F2-46AB-4ACC-B155-474BE230B2FE-20879-000013FACE16A6FB.jpg)
So the board. Made as normal from a MDf base with cut in poly/foam sheets (not by us! It's an old board my mate got in a very bad state). Coated with, white emulation (I am a decorator) with sharp sand in. This made it textured. Then a coat of white ontop to help seal it. Then another and then sprinkled while still wet with snow flock. The river was then varnished to give it a gloss look.
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/06E8A69E-9227-4512-B480-D429A4D5DA2E-20879-000013FB1B7A9D40.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/DD04EF36-6F34-4A7F-BD4C-A0E6CE29E6C1-20879-000013FB10F26307.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/F27151B6-1EDD-4BB1-8BE5-6ADA7C8D4685-20879-000013FB24993649.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/C67750BC-205E-43D5-ADE6-A9EFD3831CD4-20879-000013FB2D34BAB4.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/6171C22B-03E2-4EE9-BF3C-7D2FF1CED9BC-20879-000013FB37392BBE.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/70DC7B00-3BA8-488B-825F-7D36301CBEEA-20879-000013FB5B2E6EFC.jpg)
So the terrain features. I had two forge world 40k bunkers with no roofs. I had some corrugated card and Ant cut them into rectangles (he's the plasticard guy) and I glued em and painted them up and then sprinkled snow flock on while still wet:
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Next, £7 for this airfix building. Bargain I say. Nive barn that fits in with sci fi as well as WW2 etc. it has a bombed out rear so tanks can drive in as well as troops and a tank fits in beautifully with its cannon out the window, after painting it I sprayed the roof with varnish and covered in snow flock:
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/C2589491-9127-41C2-BC7D-44A1DF654AC1-20879-000013FB50137496.jpg)
Ant then made the first of a few fantastic bridges from plasticard... I really don't know how he does it so well! :
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/85F95455-4AE1-491A-A7E1-5D8F4E209D90-20879-000013FB489AD86A.jpg)
So. .. Trees....
So trees, found some amazing furr trees, but at £12 for three I went off the idia. Also, the other side there are some very cheap but very bad trees out there, I settled for these http://picclick.com/16-X-Model-Pine-400231134929.html that I think are a fair price and also a decent quality.
I then mounted them on card and sprayed them with Varnish Spray and sprinkled them with snow flock. Here they are:
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/395857BA-2B70-48FC-87EF-98AFD7B33DAF-20879-00001401147A903A.jpg)
So then, we got some MDF boards and mounted them, and here are the results:
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/21AF2C95-6FD6-42F2-BD25-5B65E1A438E6-20879-000013FB7B292B0B.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/9CCA8E57-35EB-45E3-A4A9-BE22C36B73C0-20879-000013FB93AB9A66.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/0EC20290-C5C2-4086-B062-A9C4AA0BDB88-20879-000013FB9CFD3B19.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/DD044925-3BC2-4AB2-9270-3CEECB37556A-20879-000013FBA377CDB9.jpg)
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/E0CA8A6C-0BE9-4924-9C69-3BC79B1FD0B3-20879-000013FBB3F6587A.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/FC81B879-74E9-41E9-9025-F8D827470D60-20879-000013FBC096576C.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/F4B2DD4B-237C-4281-9EDA-18223240449F-20879-000013FBCAAAE08A.jpg)
Comment welcome. Oh, I know what your thinking and me and Ant/Dim are thinking the same... Need twice as many trees yeah?
Nice.
Too many trees on a base is a pain to move figures through, but more bases of trees is never a bad thing!
Hi Mad Lem! Already thought of that, you cant make it out so here's some close ups. Trees are well spread on the boards. A simple ruling of,"if your on the board, your in cover" as I would think there are more trees and foliage in that area.
It will work nice for tanks also, so instead of one board with 6 trees you could have two of 3 with a 3cm gap between tree boards, to represent that it is free of debris and such and so the tanks can role through with no problems and is technically still in the foresty area. If its on one of the tree boards it's likly to get blocked or have problems etc
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/C2565FE5-EDF4-430C-963C-A2953DC73EB7-21134-00001410FCAE63B9.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/863CCB27-0B0A-4553-872E-F06F88F81A84-21134-00001411E4C1B22E.jpg)
Very nice looking board.
If you can, you could put snow on on the tree bases.
That's wonderful.
Cracking job V ! :-bd
Looks terrific.
Cheers - Phil.
Great terrain, Vulpine. But I agree with Barbarian that the tree bases need to be snowed too, as per your woodland photos. Bearing in mind that the trees already have snow on them this seems reasonable. Otherwise - great effort! :-bd
Great job Vulpine, excellent work on the river,
kev
Thanks all,
Tree bases still to do :P
Should do them on thurs, thinking mud (we have a mud textured paint) and snow ontop.
Thanks for the comments!
... Oh, done some work on the waterfall so it looks like a stream flowing over the top, instead of dribbling down, ill get the pics up soon!
Having been up many frozen waterfalls, I thought it looked pretty good!
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nejournal/dec2010/5/2/cautley-spout-917843916.jpg (http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nejournal/dec2010/5/2/cautley-spout-917843916.jpg)
Top show old chap!
Seriously very cool board youv'e done! well done dude! :D
Thanks for the pic, my waterfall is going to be water not ice, I wouldn't know how to start doing the same in the pic... But it does look ace!
Here are my pics:
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/9CEF9893-7F86-4032-8495-8B1FF9F93C28-22163-000014F04679AF32.jpg)
Brrrrrr! Makes me shiver looking at it.
48 more trees orderd!
Some of those figures look familiar...where are they from?
Hi IAW,
It's http://armiesarmy.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 - http://www.blackhat.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=22_192_198
Although the tanks are just WW2 T34 conversions.
Progress...
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/ACD7B723-ADC7-4E99-8C7A-7EDECED8B85F-24243-000016D412E5E3FC.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/E6FD143B-BA13-482C-B824-84271ED16275-24243-000016D419482F17.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/F212E304-9713-4BCC-8C4A-85E7FDE774EB-24243-000016D41FCB9058-1.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/EF3057C9-1052-4424-A7DD-25C84ABD6B27-24243-000016D42594D180.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/3B4DA1EF-87EE-4633-A290-95F0F89A91C5-24259-000016D501E3F9A4.jpg)
(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/123989DB-BAE5-49BD-ADEF-CDBE6A0A07D0-24259-000016D6100F864D.jpg)
Yep, that's better! My apologies for criticising before the project was complete. :-[
Definitely works.
Thaks HB. To be fair it's hard to tell from the pics if its brown or MDF
ML, sure dose!
I'm impressed with my mine field actually, going to do another and one of the forest with mines in also. Don't think you can tell from the pics but you can see the odd mine sticking up..
It's going to be so much better with another 48 trees on (total of over 110 trees).
Two of the bases are larger forests. One of 15 trees (twise as large as the largest one now) and one of 10 also. See how the more dence forests will look.
All done!
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/D55DC633-928D-4086-8131-B42B4B599D46-8525-00000796CE0B3315.jpg)
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(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj567/Joel1985A/4F0E7B02-6433-4D70-BB6F-320CBD6B58DF-8525-00000796E6D60C45.jpg)
Great work V !!
Cheers - Phil.
Nicely done, slight pickiness, would the bridge have snow on it?
Well we discussed the bridge and snow idea.
In reality, the answer is actually, maybe:
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For some reason snow dosnt always lie on metal?
In theory it would lie in the road-bed (and probably be churned to mush by the tracks). However, if you want to be able to use the bridge for other scenarios it's probably best left as it is.
Winter table looks fantastic. My efforts in 6mm on my blog but nothing like the detail on yours. Very inspiring.
http://myblog-lekw.blogspot.com/
The table looks really great V, top marks!! The added trees make all the difference!
I thought the minis were Keiths, they really are really versatile little figures, I'm going to have to get me some (and the RUSKs with the gasmasks)
Seriously good stuff!! ;)
Thanks IAW. Keith models are very nice! The pics you see online Don't do them justice!
LekW, your winter board looks fan-dabby! I have considered using the board at 10mm and making some tiny fur tree woods!
Don't.
If you search about the size of trees, you'll notice we use too little trees on our tabletop.
These trees are fine for 10mm.
I second that. Wargamers consistently use under-scale trees. Most mature trees are at least twice the height of a two-story building.
I use the same trees for 10mm as I do for 28mm admittedly seeing a 10mm regiment marching past a 6 inch high tree looks a little odd but if you think about it its really only a 90 foot tall tree and you get plenty of those. So its all really down to what weve become used to seeing on the wargames table.
Interesting, ill give it a look