Buildings, Big Bertha and Bogs

Well, with Day 40 of rain here in the West Country, I thought I'd do a bit of an update of what's been going on on the gaming front. Certainly no gaming, that's for sure, but at least I've been busy doing more terrain, which can be seen below.

Another 6mm Battlescale farmhouse or 'the Big House' as part of my 'French' buildings for BKCII.

A joy to paint once again, but it took me some time to finally get these finished.

Another 6mm Battlescale building, which is a shop or cafe, I'm not sure which to be honest. I set it back slightly from the road to give the impression that you could have some chairs and tables outside if it was a cafe. 

I added some enamel advertising signs to the sides of the buildings. A little too large, but they have the right visual impact once on the table.

For years I've always wanted to make some freestanding advertising hoardings to decorate the table. The bases are 1" wide to give you an idea of size.

A WWI memorial, again purely for decoration in the BUA's. The base is 1/2" square.

Some very old school metal trees that I was gifted by David Crook, that I based and added flock to the sculpted leaves on the originals, to give them a cohesive look with my other trees.

'Big Bertha', an Austrian WWI Skoda 30.5cm Morser M11, for use in my AVBCW games, mainly as an objective in a campaign setting.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but the colours are too dark for my liking, but given how much time it will spend on the table, I'm not that fussed!

A few 10mm MDF fences from Pendraken. I have some 6mm ones too. Having a gate in a couple of them is a nice touch.

I hadn't been entirely happy with some of my fields and as such, they rarely got put out on the table. So having everything set up in the games room, I pimped a few of them to make them into sort of allotments or fields belonging to a small holding.

As with the above, but wanting to make them more like rough terrain or bogs/marsh. The bogs/marsh (right hand side) didn't work quite as I'd have imagined, but I can always make some more in the future

What Next?

I've still got plenty of miniatures primed for painting, but the awful weather we've had all year so far has meant it's hard to get motivated to paint anything, hence the focus on the terrain. However now I've reached a natural halt on the terrain front, I want to get the new 'toys' onto the table and some small games to get back into the swing of things.

As mentioned before, I have plenty of ideas whirling away, especially for campaigns, but to start with I think some one off games are the order of the day. A mix of periods and scales of action would be nice, but let's wait and see what grabs me first.

Alongside this, the Ark is coming along nicely, and will probably be in action soon given the weather forecast for the next few weeks😒.

As always, thanks for reading and any comments greatly appreciated. Any sunshine and dry weather than you can send this way will be gratefully received😉!

TTFN.