DVD-terrain - "homeless" Church homeless no more :-)

Hello all,
That sweet little "homeless" church just kept begging for a base - so I whipped this one up. Turned out pretty well.

Still need to "dirty" up the gravestones (and yes, the tumbled down stoen was on purpose, and in no way because I managed to superglue it in that position and couldn't get it loose again....).

All the best,
Kasper

Church on a DVD - 6mm / 10mm Terrain

Hello,
the first of the finished dvd-terrain pieces (begun here) is this church. It is made of some type of grey clay that I was a bit worried about painting but in the end it turned out very well, at least I think so :-). The church does look a bit "new" and could do with some weathering, but perhaps the congregation just finished repainting it before war came to their neighbourhood?
(Actually - looking at the pictures I seem to have forgotten to "weather" most of the gravestones as well - must be new graves?)

The gravestones are of this type:

A nice little set - I kept some for the next church in line.

The tree is one of the lovely ones produced by Heki (I think) and the hedge was a cheap buy from my local train-hobby store. The fence-thingy id from Irregular Miniatures (and I just bought 10 more of those :-)).

All the best!


Kasper

6mm / 10mm Terrain on DVDs

 Hello all,

In order to make even more small sized terrain to make the battlefield more realistic I went through my "bits box" of terrain and found a lot of unused buildings and "bits". So during a relaxing evening I put some of it on DVDs as they would provide me with a nice sized base that was readily available and could quickly be duplicated.
Here are a couple of pictures from the early stages - finished pictues will follow soonish:

Really nice church - and a lot of pva glue :-).

The church in the background with a bit of hedge and colour while two farms are shaping up in the forefront.

A brilliant (but small) resin church that I've been waiting for a good occasion for using - and the church seemed to call out for a large tree...

More trees on one of the farms and a wind mill popped up :-).



I think they've turned out well so far - and hopefully they'll be visible in the forthcoming battle report...

All the best,
Kasper

Overcoming Obstacles II

Hello all,
I managed to sneak in some hobby time today and get some work done on the obstacles I begun a week ago.
Here is a short preview of the results - with the Artillery Master proudly displaying his Organ Gun in the middle:

Most of the terrain are N scale (or ca. 6mm) while the minis are ten mm. I know thats a bit weird but it really looks more "correct" on the battlefield in my opinion and works really well footprint-wise.

The object of these obstacles is to preovide some nice looking "clutter" for the battlefield - although they could be used as obstacles and thus given defended status to infantrye etc, they are mainly just there to break up the "flatness" of the battlefield. I hope and trust they will work.

Heres the first of the obstacles - a stone (I naturally had to paint it as I didn't think it looked enough like a stone :-)), a small tree from Heki or Noch (damn I wish I had more of these!) and a few sections of the same wall as the Master is deployed behind. I've forgotten where I got these from and if anyone could help me out with a name I would really appreciate it!

I'll be showing close ups the next few days so stay tuned in breathless excitement!
:-).
All the best,
Kasper

Overcoming obstacles

Hello all,
after a long draught on the hobby side I finally got some stuff done yesterday evening. Not much but it may be the beginning of a long and fruitful winter :-).
In our last game I realised that there are three things I need in order to make the field of battle look better; more road, obstacles, and something to clutter the tabletop to make it look more natural (these would probably not have any effect on the game - purely visual).
So the first obstacle to overcome were the obstacles... (see what I did there? :-)). And here are a few pictures of the first stage of them:

There are also two defended areas for the artillery to park in - of no benefit ruleswise but it should look better :-).

Most of the metal pieces are from Irregular Miniatures while the trees and hedges are from Heki or Noch - wonderful stuff.

The two odd objects - which I really hope you recognize - were bought in a small shop in San Francisco recently for the prize of 1 dollar combined. I hope that with a little tender love and care they will end up as somewhat amusing pieces for the battlefield...

All the best, and a merry christmas to all,
Kasper.

Pigs in the pen go oink, oink, oink

Hello all!
Well I managed to get some more "me"-time and as has been the case recently I used it for making some more terrain, instead of painting minis. Don't know why but I just feel more like terragenesissing than painting yet another unit of 10mm infantry.
The result was two of the smaller bases worth of farms (which we play as giving infantry the defended bonus but is open to all troop types and with full visibility) that can go into my "modular" bases, for greater diversity.
The first is a windmill and a small hanged man (child?) from Irregular Miniatures with a tree from Games Workshop (bought on ebay at 0.99£ for three). The peaceful grassy hill is being chewed on by three goats made by some forgotten railway company.
Looks great in my opinion :-).




The next one is a small wineyard - the house is from Baccus6mm, the tree is from Noch while the pigpen and winestalks are from Irregular Miniatures.



Hope you enjoy them - they were fun to build/paint - now if only I could get some gaming done...
K.

The Dark Forest

Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
Hang stars like seeds of light
In vain, though not since they were sown was bred
Anything more bright.

And evermore mighty multitudes ride
About, nor enter in;
Of the other multitudes that dwell inside
Never yet was one seen.

(--E. Thomas)

The last stands of forest terrain are done - not with any amount of detail (there are a few roads and thats it apart froms tones and hills) but I'll go back and add some ruins and the like later on. Two more with mainly decidous trees from Noch:

And seven stands of dark deep spruce forest. Three large bases and four smaller ones - all to go inside the modules so they'll give various sizes of forest and yet alow any troops to enter if they so wishes. I have managed to forget who made the spruces - but they were bought in a huge bag of 50 or 75 of them and look alright from afar. Close up they are not that detailed :-/.

More terrain; forests

Greetings! I managed to finish three sets of forest stands in between my Ph.D and painting our new apartments (as well as the kids demanding far too much time .-)). These are mounted on 11,5x11,5 pieces of hard cardboard which in hindsight was a mistake but I have run out of thin mdf and wanted to work on them. They've warped slightly from the glue and clay used to give them some contours but not enough to be a problem.




These flowery trees might be a bit too bright but they do give the battlefield some colour which works well.
Below they are shown inserted in one of my modular borderbases from which they can be lifted out when troops wishes to occupy the forest area.
The hanged man and gate are from Irregular Miniatures, hedges from Heki and the trees are the, in my mind, perfect ones from Noch (decidous and spring).

Warmaster Terrain

Another try - this time a page full of my terrain pieces:


On the workbench at the moment; another farm - wine stalks and pigpen from Irregular while the house is from Baccus.

Finished old and mysterious standing stones in the forest - or something :-). "Mystic Stones" from JR Miniature terrain ("god damn it Alexis i want that pipeline.....").


Examples of my new modular village concept. Three sizes of bases will be put into different modules (see below) making a wide variety of possible village configurations. Here are a celtic village (small and medium size), a mill with buildings (medium) and a medium village with a church. Next to the sheep is a small sheepdog (almost impossible to spot) which is from a set of farm animals made by Noch (theres also a cat somewhere - kudos tot he one who manages to spot it :-)).
The Celtic village is from Mainly Military (Not Baccus as I thought previously) as are some of the other buildings and church while the farm things are from Irregualr miniatures (the sheep, cows, cornsstalks and the hanged man below). The hedges are Heki while most of the trees are from Noch (decidous). The fir trees are from a huge bag bought somewhere on the web but I've forgotten the brand - they are of ok quality but pale in comparison with Noch.

One of the first "modules" for my villages. The size makes it possible to have a small and medium village/farm inside the walls or hedges and when troops arrive they can be removed for ease. Makes the possible configurations endless (almost .-)).


A couple of Impassable rock-stands.


The gate, one of the towers and a breached section of my quickly built fortress.

Broer / bridges - resin made by JR Terrain
New Stakes for the longbowmen
Preliminaries for the next village
Almost finished celtic village - trees up next.

Old Comments:
Per: Det ser fandme godt ud. Er de også konstrueret til elefanter? ellers bruger jeg dem ikke!
Hamilkar

Kasper: Takker, men dine fedtede tykhuder har værsgo' at benytte vadestederne - vi skal ikke risikere mine fine broer styrter sammen. :-)

6milphil: Nice terrain, I like the piling in lots of detail on each one I think that always adds to the feel of a game. Those celtic villages are Mainly Military ones aren't they? MM51 & MM51a?
Have a look; http://www.chilternminiatures.co.uk/catalog/index.php/cPath/979_986/sort/1a/page/3
I've used them as African native villages in my colonial games.
cheers,
6milPhil