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 

Shieldwall unit Late Roman 4

 Here is another Late Roman shieldwall unit for my Dux Bellorum army but which will in all likelyhood end up in a Midguard game, individualy based, then sabot based in a 120mm base they could be used for Impetus and also for To the Strongest!?

Primed black, flesh, metal, browns, shield colours,handpainted, all good. Black Tree design figures, nice and chunky, like most of my Dux Bellorum armies I bought them second hand from a chap selling them at Colours and then Salute a few years ago.

Pretty happy with them, fast and dirty but good enough, Ive got another skirmish unit virtually done, then one more shieldwall unit and an archer unit then this little army will be done.

Up next? Terrain, Napoleonics , Napoleonic terrain or Late Romans

All the best 

Iain

Christmas games

 We had a couple of games over Christmas. First up was a game of Balins tomb from the Lord of the Rings GW franchise that Des had painted up . I got the Fellowship, although none of the Fellowship had so far survived in any of their previous games!

The goblins kept coming and I kept killing them and found out that hobbits dont last long ! I tried to keep other members of the fellowship around them but by turn 12, the final go, I'd lost enough that I couldn't surround Frodo, I was lucky that the cave troll didn't turn up until the last go and of course meant I got to say " They have a cave troll" which was fun! I thought I was going to get through and win but on almost the last roll Des managed to kill Frodo but was unable to kill the rest of the Fellowship so we ended up with an entertaining draw. A fun skirmish game and difficult to get anything out of it with the Fellowship, nice figures.       Next up on Boxing day we had a game of Bolt action . We came up with a couple of forces,a US and German one to go with the terrain and said whoever was in occupation of the town square at the end of turn four would be the winner.

 Jack chose to be the Germans and I was given the US forces, Des umpired it as we havent played that much of Bolt Action 3.

I managed to get in and under cover relatively rapidly, Jack was more circumspect, I realised I needed to get rid of his armoured cars as they were a big threat and having eliminated those and a few other units I was ahead by the time turn 4 came around, he didnt really have many units near the square whereas I had a number,plus due to the vagaries bolt action  activation, all of his force were activated while I still had five units left to activate so I kind of easily won but great fun all round and nice to get the terrain on the table, I did think maybe I need to do a bit of work to tie the church in with the other terrain, what do you think?

The highlight of Christmas, 25 of us were in a house in Dolgellau for the festivities and then we found out what was made there! Des standing by the sign.

Happy New Year to you all and something Napoleonic next up probably!

All the best

Iain