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






















Great work Iain:)! There is something so satisying about making your own terrain, compared to buying the very wonderful and detailed 3D printed stuff on offer these days. Personally it takes me back to those Airfix magazine scratch building articles from my pre-teenage years, so I can do what I always wanted to do, but never had the tools nor the skills to do it.
ReplyDeleteGood to see the storage has been thought about too, as that was something that soon became a problem when I did game in 28mm, as I simply did not have enough space even for a few buildings, talk less of ancillary items.
Totally awesome scenery Iain, fits the inspirational art perfectly.
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