First piece of terrain for Strength and Honour done.

A farm with an orchard and some bushes (vines?).

Buildings are from Brigade Models' Small Scale Scenery range, trees are the ends of bamboo stemmed cotton buds dipped in wood glue then twirled in chinchilla dust and the bushes are lengths of green pipe cleaner.

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A whole Roman town is under construction! Pictures to follow.

      

Great to see a return to DIY terrain

Fantastic, that's a great idea using the cotton buds

Very nice terrain work. Also working on armies & some terrain for that system.

Thanks folks.

Work continues on the  town.

That's cool. Looking forward to seeing the town 

The town goes on apace. Wonky walls and all.

Slightly misjudged the space the thing would take up so squidged the walls to make them fit. But, hey, real town walls aren't straight either.

The temple of Jupiter Optimus Magnus was painted in situ, other buildings are being painted separately and will be glued in place as they are completed.

The town walls are from Brigade Models Small Scale Scenery range.

Specific packs were

2 x SSS-8120 Curtain Walls (pack of 4)

1 x SSS-8120a Walls with Round Bastion (pack of 2)

1 x SSS-8122s Square Towers (pack of 4)

2 x SSS-8123a Gatehouse Type-1

The enormous temple, which dwarfs the surrounding buildings as St Paul's or York Minster do, is

SSS-8061 Roman Temple

Hi Ithoriel

Really enjoying this thread and seeing the work put in. Looking forward to some thoughts on the rules themselves. 

Cheers Paul

Quote from: mmcv on 08 June 2022, 01:25:08 PMFantastic, that's a great idea using the cotton buds

They make great splash markers for naval games as well

Thanks once again for the comments.

So, now I give you the Roman(-ised?) town of Numquam

My plan at the moment is to run a solo campaign set in Italy, Gaul and Spain .... so I need to stop having fun with terrain and get some troops painted.

Therefore projects currently under way for this are ... err .... a Gallic Village (actually a Dark Age one from Brigade Models) and a bathmat wood. Doh!

Love that, really shows the benefits of the smaller scale.

I don't need another project...I don't need another project...

      

How big is the town?

To answer Paul first, the town base 150mm square.

A couple more items complete.

First up is a Brigade Models' Small Scale Scenery British Dark Age village masquerading as a Gallic one. Sorry, I couldn't find a 2mm small Gaul, large Gaul, druid and small dog.



Next up is a forest made from a chunk of bathmat




Next batch waiting to be done are actual units!! There will be blood heffalumps!

    

What would the outer wall of the 'village' be made of, stone

Lovely work! What armies are you going to build, apart from a roman one?

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What would the outer wall of the 'village' be made of, stone

Let's check our primary source:






(From https://www.asterix.com/en/welcome-to-the-virtual-village/)

 

Well, given the image is from one of the set texts from my University Archaeology course I must, of course, give it credence. However, the model definitely looks to me as if it has a stone reinforced wall rather than a wooden palisade.

@collegialhoagie - Current plan is two Roman forces, one Gallic, one German and one Spanish but knowing me I may wind up with only the one Roman army with nothing to fight or one of every army in the lists! No plan of mine survives contact with reality

Thanks for the comments (and amusement) folks!

Surely the wall be made of what was locally and easily available?

You wouldn't (for example) build a wooden wall in Shetland because there are no trees. Not a problem in some of the leafier areas of the world where wood would be easier to source than having to dig up rocks.

Ithoriel

You will be happy to note strength and honor has also made to the farther reaches of the empire, even here.

Also trying for romans & gauls (& yes too many projects on the go here). There is a gentleman from a northern (?) club in the UK who has modified the rules & first started doing war of the roses & then early renessaince... you may have seen his own pictures on the rules FB page. In any case the pike blocks look very impressive.

Carry on ..looks like you are doing nice work.

Bob