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
The hills look like they fit into your recent basing style very well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, I think so too!
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Nice refurbishment Iain. Langton ships have some Renaissance naval rules to go with his models, although I have never played them. He also has some very nice micro buildings plus flags for the ships.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence, I'll have to check the buildings out and the rule set!
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Nice refurb on those hills, which look very realistic in terms of colour and vegetation. No idea on rules as naval not my area of interest, despite being tempted now and then. Those galleys should look nice once painted up a bit more.
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, useful bits of terrain, nice to get them back ip to scratch!
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Hills look great, very naturalistic … I see Devil’s Den there!
ReplyDeleteFor naval, Wargames Illustrated about 3 issues ago did a free set of Ancient Galley rules - since they will have the basic principles of naval movement / wind etc, could they be adapted for a fun game? I say this as someone who does not know their stern from their bow!
Thanks Norm, I did pick up those rules , just in case do they will be my first port of call, as were going all nautical!
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Nice hills mate - looks like my back garden. Lol. I typically use Galleys and Galleons from Ganesha for anything naval.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark, I will bear that jn mind as you're one of the few people I know who has played naval games!
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Lovely work and they look excellent refurbished 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Matt!
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Looking really great!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Michal!
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Great work on the repairs, and refurbishment of the hills, they look excellent for multiple eras and uses and as you've proved scale as well, overall excellent scenery Iain.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Dave!
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Well done finishing off scenery, I always found it really boring. These pieces look like they could fit in anywhere, just about.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe, I wouldn't of imagined that based on all your excellent terrain, especially your recent magnificent seven recreation?
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Nicely spruced up terrain Iain…It could even find a place in the Wild West…
ReplyDeleteI’m with JBM Galleys and Galleons… I am a big fan of Ganesha Games rules…They are easy to pick up and from my experience quite hard to break when you start tweaking them.
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly yes I think you're right, badlands from Northumbria to the wild west, sounds like a good title? Another vote for Galleys and Galleons, at less than£10 on Amazon I'd better get it!
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Splendid looking terrain pieces. Just the job for the Med.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Chris!
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Excellent terrain and galleys. I concur with the gents above about Galleys & Galleons.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much and another vote for G&G!
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Great looking terrain Iain, and the addition of the galleys at the end gave me some real Jason & the Argonauts vibes. Clearly the scenery will work at any scale. Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon, yes it seems scale agnostic!
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You can't have enough of this sort of terrain. Plus, clearly capable for use in multiple forms of warfare. Top job.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard, some useful bits of kit!
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Love it when terrain can pull double duty like that, makes me think of what I can do for my old Pirates CSG games and some of the fantasy terrain I have.
ReplyDeleteThanks SD, yes doing double duty is a great thing !
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Nice work! My first thought on seeing the colors and general appearance was they look Mediterranean, or similar climes.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fitz, I guess it is my Italian wars basing, so that makes sense!
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Good as new! They came out really well; very rugged. And they work surprisingly (or not surprisingly) well as islands. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew, not planned as islands so I guess surprisingly!
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Oh, those are nice! They look enormously natural, I love them
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Suber!
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These are great looking terrain pieces Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Keith!
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Wow! That's some seriously good looking terrain, Iain.
ReplyDeleteThat's very kind of you Dean!
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O I like these hills! Those are the kind of terrain I want to make for a 1941 Northern Greece/Southern Albania theme'd table that I've been planning in my head. Of course... the plan is currently being stored with all the OTHER hobby plans and useless sports, history, Star Wars and gaming facts that nobody but me finds important, and so there's little space left for real life boringness. LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai, super easy to build and surely they would work for Albania and Star Wars?
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