Mockern built up area Napoleonic Terrain 3

 This is based on an illustration of Mockern   ( part of the battle of Leipzig 1813) where the Prussians eventually threw out the French, in spite of severe casualties.  My Prussian force is going to be built around the order of battle for here and I  thought I'd build a built up area for it.

I had a round plastic roof that I wanted to use. The dove cot is a hot chocolate container, the fencing is lightly adapted from Rendra ACW snake fencing and the building is foamboard with plastic tile spacers for window frames, a textured wallpaper was used and balsa wood for the doors, 300mm square (1'0"ish square in old money ) hardboard base with texture added, I've made the fencing removable for storage. The roofing tiles are from the dapol church which fit even though I'd built the building before buying the church,  got to be lucky sometimes I guess? I did have to add a bargeboard which isn't quite period correct to conceal the roof edges but I figured it is alright.

I've made the buildings removable with lugs on the base and holes in the buildings to secure them so they're easier to store.

Warfayre who I got my 3d printed wagons from do some really nice Napoleonic terrain in a variety of scales and do a nice model of this that I have shamelessly ripped off/ been inspired by! If I had  lots of money and didn't enjoy building stuff so much I'd be visiting their site for terrain to be honest

Primed in masonry paint, otherwise various emulsion paints and some flock, shown with some French troops.

These are the last two terrain pieces stacked together,pretty happy with the space saving, next up ? Terrain, Napoleonics or dark ages I guess?

All the best 

Iain

A pair of ordinary shieldwall units Romano British 2

 Here's a pair of ordinary shieldwall unit, Black Tree and Foundry, individually based on 1p pieces in a 120mm sabot base. Shields done as before with pen details,  Halfords khaki sprayed as primer and an agrax wash. Useful if not terribly exiting units, Foundry leader and Black Tree rank and file, I'm happier with the shields, might be getting the hang of this, which is good as these are the last infantry shieldwall units! These have been completed as part of Dave Stones paint what you have challenge.

Could probably have done some more on these but I figure they're good enough, I've got some archers to do then onto the cavalry.

Still the ever present Napoleonics and terrain lurking around but there could be something else!

All the best 

Iain 

German farmhouse Napoleonic Terrain 2

 I have already done some terrain for Napoleonics, the German white church and yard but I decided I wanted more built up areas that worked for southern Germany and Austria, my half timbered English buildings were alright mixed in with my dark age/medieval buildings up to apoint but I wanted something a bit more  European, to this end I have done my best to rip off ( be inspired by?) some built up areas by Oshiro modeling, jimbibblyblog who I first saw on the lead adventure forum which I've mentioned previously. Obviously mine are not laser cut bespoke purpose built pieces but bodged together discarded broken toys, Christmas decorations, foamboard , the ubiquitous coffee stirrers , wallpaper and various other bits and bobs I've clearly been hoarding for some time, sorry Stew! Here then is a  German built up area on a piece of hardboard approximately 300mm( 1'0" in Imperial ish) square . It's a German farmhouse made out of a discarded pair of toys, 40+ year old door surround and some foamboard, coffee stirrers and tile spacers plus the odd bit of balsa and some corrugated cardboard.

The squares that come out of the foamboard windows I use to locate the buildings, only the walls are stuck down, the buildings are removable for storage. The roof on the  barn was from some sheets I got from Des, maybe from Warbase ? The corrugated cardboard was made into tiles to go on the walls like I did with the cemetery I did previously. 

A bit of ready mixed filler here and there on the walls to give a bit of texture, some masonry paint on everything, then a wash with watered down raw umber emulsion paint, in the background there's another building from a different built up area yet to come and then various emulsion paints all over . The base is pva and sand/cat litter , emulsion paint and then some flock. Might have done enough terrain for a bit, or maybe not!

Better with a tree and some troops for scale as Steve has done! 

Next up, Napoleonics, terrain ,dark ages, not sure!

All the best 

Iain