Ruined buildings batch 2 Terrain 27

 Here's the other six buildings,  foamboard, brick plastic sheet , coffee stirrers, filler, cardboard,matchsticks and a bit of balsa. Painted in household emulsion on top of various black car sprays.

I've still got to update Des's original  four mdf buildings and of course there's Stews prototype for a step by step and ideally an art deco cinema/ theatre plus some trains , a crashed plane and maybe Pavlovs house in 28mmish, the man's mad! 

In the meantime here's some pictures of these buildings with the two larger ones I did previously,  with our obligatory friend the commisar.

Apart from these buildings,  I'm working on some more bridges, some Dark age terrain,  some Napoleonic terrain plus some carts and wagons which are all covered by Dave Stones Summer of scenery which these are part of. I'm also grappling with some barricades,plus there are always Napoleonics lurking nearby!

All the best 

Iain

Ordinary shieldwall unit Romano British 1

 Here is my first unit for my Romano British force,planned for Dux Bellorum but I'll probably use them in a Midgard game. They're from a massive lot of Black Tree design infantry figures I picked up second hand at Salute and Colours a few years ago. I've painted the Saxons,Irish and Picts and some of the Late Romans but I'm finally getting to the Romano British. Nice characterful sculpts, the rank and file were primed in Halfords khaki, given a wash of GW agrax earthshade and then some browns,flesh,lead belcher(steel) and a tiny bit of colour here and there , the command figure is more flamboyant and his no 2 ( who is a Foundry figure on a small mound because he's tiny next to the black tree figures) is somewhere between the two, they've been substantially done for ages , I just couldn't work out how to do the shields. In the end I drew a variety of designs in pencil and painted a few of the chi rho designs but the rest were done with paint pens my nephew gave me, when he decided they weren't for him. I have to say they're great and I will keep these in my arsenal going forward,not entirely convinced about the green but I'm not about to change it, another couple of shieldwall units on the desk and some archers.

I'll use these as Romano British and happily add them to my late Romans to give me a bigger force, this is the start of Arthur's army, I've got some footsore cavalry and command coming up,  I've still probably got enough figures to do another Romano British force, Vortigens maybe? Wouldn't mind a Welsh army too and have started them too. This is the first non Napoleonic figures painted this year, next up Napoleonics, Dark Ages figures or some terrain, maybe some Dark Ages terrain?

All the best

 Iain 

Ruined buildings block 1 terrain 26

 Here are some of the ruined buildings I built  last summer primarily for northwest Europe bolt action but a couple of them would probably work for what Napoleonic built up areas ended up looking like after they inevitably caught fire! They're also bound to see service on the eastern front.They all got spray painted in Halfords and pound shop black, some in gloss because I ran out of matt and I'm less precious about terrain! It's mainly to prime/seal up the plastic sheet and the metal I've used for tile battens on the roof. After that I've used various emulsion paints and a bit of flock . 

Considering the plastic sheet isn't brick and is the wrong scale, I think they work pretty well, notice the work gloves, to round off the ensemble I was also wearing a canvas apron, I like aprons!

I deliberately let some of the black show through the various layers to help degrade the finish. Window frames tended not to be white pre ww2, that was a post war Queen Anne revival and of course before petro chemicals were developed for paint in the 1960s anything painted white went yellow/cream pretty rapidly, green,blue  and burgundy were popular woodwork colours as they were not too fugitive and were pretty stable (red and green also worked well with heat which is why they were popular locomotive colours) I haven't gone too colourful in the rooms but enough that there is some contrast, a small amount of regret that I didn't install fireplace surrounds but you have to draw the line somewhere! 

First four with my flagless commisar, well at least he's not in a box! I tried to indicate lime render with a white wash on some of them and varied the brick colour  a bit. Pretty happy with them and they look good with the previous buildings too which is nice. I've varied the render colours a bit, they're a little cartoony but I'm alright with that, as you can see the other six are on the table  so I hope to add those like these to Dave Stones Summer of scenery, hope he's back on the tools soon. Next up? More terrain or Austrians I guess?

All the best 

Iain