ACW, pics of my figs

Started by Aksu, 09 July 2015, 11:46:59 AM

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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
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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.

Javier Gomez

Wow, I was thinking about starting a Napoleonic project after the FPW, bit now I have serious doubts... Superb stuff!

Westmarcher

Fascinating images (for me, anyway). But I have a feeling these pics do not do you justice. However, if you were to provide us with close ups of the miniatures you painted, I am confident you would put my my own 15mm efforts to shame. Well done, sir!  =D>
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Aksu

Hullo,
Thanks for all the positive comments, sorry for the tardiness of the reply.
The bases are the 30 x 20 mm MDF bases Leon sells, five figs per base.
I will at some point do close up pics, but I have to be honest they are painted just to look good en masse from a gaming distance. I had to paint all the figs for our four player Longstreet campaign, so I concentrated on producing regiments that are good enough for gaming.
Many of the esteemed fellows on this list, judging by the photos, produce figures that far outclass my efforts.
Cheers,
Aksu

fred.

The figures look very good Aksu - especially so if they have been quickly painted for mass effect.

With 10mm it seems much more sensible to go for big armies that look good at a gaming distance, rather than a few display quality pieces. In the end you want the look of a battle, not a skirmish.
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Those look fantastic, thanks for posting!

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