Impassable terrain refurb and elderly galleys terrain 21

 These are some of the oldest bits of terrain I've got , built for 40k out of blocks of polystyrene packing, roughly chopped and then glued together with some chunky cat litter on some ripped up mount board, sloppily painted in sand emulsion and green masonary paint before getting some flock added, over the years they got a bit battered so I have touched them up with some pva and sharp sand, cat litter and my current emulsion basing colour, followed by a dark wash then some other flock and finally some clump foliage. These have been sitting around half done for months at least, probably over a year and I'm hoping less than two, so once again thanks to Dave , even after his Summer of scenery is over it's still being productive!

They were built as line of sight blockers , work as edges of  moorland dressing, they also look like the background in various  Uccello Italian renaissance paintings and general impassable terrain markers, I've still got some other pieces that are less battered but maybe I'll need to bring them in line with these? 

Bill and Fred traipsing through the foothills!

It also occurred to me they might work as Mediterranean islands to go with some elderly plastic GW renaissance type  galleys( man of war?) , plus some metal ones I'd acquired, not all renaissance but I figured they'd do, I know, I know  shock , horror not 28mm either!

 I painted them  years ago, last century,in a basic way and  I was thinking of basing them up and maybe having a galley game,  as I have two fleets, Turkish versus Venetian maybe? All the ships are painted pretty much the same at the moment  green oars for Turkish and red for Venetian/ Imperial and if I need French I'll just proxy in the Turkish ships? Any good renaissance galley rules anyone has come across? Of course then I will have to build tiny towns and fortifications ? I'll add some flags and will finish off the galleys with some brown dry brushing I think and maybe some more red and green here and there and bases with waves of course!

Next up more terrain or maybe more Napoleonics, not sure!

All the best 

Iain 

Royal Italian alian regiment no 3 Napoleonic 39

 Not a terrain  post for  a change,here is another Victrix  Italian infantry unit, this time the third regiment, again fast and dirty white and the same process but with rather more green facings.

Another couple of Italian regiments still to come but first more French I would say , unless I get some more of the terrain completed that I have been drawn into!

All the best 

Iain 

A German church for the Danube campaign 1809 Napoleonic terrain 1terrain 20

 Last bit of August  terrain, can you tell I  work to last minute  deadlines! 

On the Lead adventure forum there is a chap who posts his terrain builds called Jimbibbly his blog is jimbibblyblog, he hasn't posted on his blog for a while and it's been a while since I was on LAF but I guess he's still doing stuff, he's a professional terrain builder, Oshiro models I think.  There is a thread on LAF of European builds on 300mm/1'0" square bases which are Napoleonic terrain commissions he's done which are exquisite. 

His designs are drawn up in Rhino a 3d architectural package then laser cut and are all bespoke one offs.

 I think they're great so I've decided to try and emulate them using HO railway models, broken toys that my sister was going to throw out from the charity shop in France that she works in ( only for my nephew to say Iain would like that rubbish! True enough!) oh and foamboard, cat litter, stirrers, plastic sheet, Christmas decorations and hardboard. 

The French cast offs are the last image and are combined with half built, half timbered medieval builds and some laser cut Christmas buildings I picked up cheap after the holidays one year.

The church is a Faller railway model I got up without a base or door, I fabricated a replacement door from balsa. The slate roof on the entrance to the yard is one of the few remnants of my airfix waterloo building set from my childhood so I thought I should use it, the tiles are off cuts from my renaissance Italian buildings (now that I have finally finished them!) and the charnal house is another French discarded toy that I have filled the walls in with balsa. 

I've also copied the set up being two 300mm x 150mm pieces that can be swapped around, used separately and are easier to store, which as I continue churning out terrain is going to be an issue!

The prototype was the Aspen Church and while this isn't it I'm happy that this works for the 1809 Danube campaign, I also liked the idea in another set up of a church being angled as opposed to straight up and down so I have adopted that too, here with some previously painted French for scale. 

Keith seems concerned ( quite reasonably!) about the size of the terrain I've done but at least these two slot together!

They're on top of my ongoing 28mm ruined art deco cinema box which I doubt I'll finish in August but has definitely benefited from Dave's season of scenery!

Next up,more Napoleonics probably or maybe even more terrain?

All the best 

Iain 

A great Italian wars roof and some more bolt action bits and bobs, terrain 19

 So I finally finished the last remaining roof for my Italian wars/ Mediterranean buildings , a surprising amount of offering up and cutting especially as I didn't have enough to do each side but done now, in a darker colour than the first batch but that's alright I think. ( in spite of one side being upside down!)

In addition I've built some scatter terrain for bolt action to go inside a factory, I'm building the doorway and windows as separate ruins so that I can adjust the size and store them easier. They are as usual an eclectic mix of tamiya 1/35 wehrmacht kitchen wagons, I thought they looked vaguely industrial, I'm thinking no roof rain, so rust and a bit of greenery . Plus some sort of toy grain store I'm using as a kind of water tank.  A gas fitting that I thought looked chunky and industrial in this scale? Finally a couple of bases with oil drims and broken bits of mdf sprues.  There's various 1/35 and 1/72 bits strewn all over the bases which are spare mighty empire bases that I have a pile of, this post clearly proves hanging onto things for decades is a good thing, right Stew?

Bolt action Soviets for scale, next up Terrain? Napoleonics? Napoleonic terrain? Once more thanks Dave for clearing more stuff out with your season of scenery and clearly I work best with a deadline!

All the best 

Iain 

Bolt action buildings Terrain 18

 Another bolt action terrain piece, this time a a pair of semi detached houses with some kind of gardens and again originally started for space marines but completed for bolt action and like the previous building they've more neo classical. Brick walls 1/35 tamiya as before, chimney covered in 1/76 plastic sheet and the rest foamboard, stirrers, cat litter and matchsticks. 

The fencing is 1/35 tamiya  as well the fireplace surrounds are some piece of plastic moulding that I kept as I thought it might work for something like this. I  added the shrapnel damage to the front at the last minute, easy to do and I think pretty effective.  Another geriatric terrain piece completed thanks to Daves season of scenery, I'm trying to get a bit more done before the end if the month!

All the best

 Iain