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.
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| Another 6mm Battlescale farmhouse or 'the Big House' as part of my 'French' buildings for BKCII. |
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| A joy to paint once again, but it took me some time to finally get these finished. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| A WWI memorial, again purely for decoration in the BUA's. The base is 1/2" square. |
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| 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. |
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| 'Big Bertha', an Austrian WWI Skoda 30.5cm Morser M11, for use in my AVBCW games, mainly as an objective in a campaign setting. |
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| 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! |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
Buildings look great, Steve! Forty days of rain? Good grief! Arks ought to be popping up in many a backyard!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jon:)! The weather has been so bad that's it's regularly making the news on its own and breaking records in places. I think we've only had two days with some sunshine, which has felt nice, but rain to varying degrees everyday.
DeleteSuperb work on the buildings and various terrain bits and bobs, Steve... or should we call you Noah. I like your repurposing of the fields.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard and Noah does feel appropriate given our current weather! I'm looking forward to giving the fields a run out soon to see how they look. I must admit I do enjoy making this sort of stuff:).
DeleteNicely done Steve and some tiny modelling…..some chairs and tables in 6mm would be impressive ! as for the weather you can have ours ?
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, but tables and chairs in 6mm would be a push! Maybe some classic pub style benches might be in order. As for the weather, anything with less rain and more brightness would be most welcome!
DeleteOh, fantastic work Steve!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal:)! The buildings are very easy to paint due to the nice level of detail and texture on them.
DeleteBattlescale buildings are full of charm. I think the metal trees may be from Irregular Miniatures. Your terrain collection must be really varied, the fields and rough / bog are looking great.
ReplyDeleteIs it too early to start thinking about the Cotswold game and what may be needed?
They really are, aren't they:). I do try to have varied terrain as with my Arts & Design background, the visual element is very important to me.
DeleteI'm already pondering what I might put on and therefore need for the CWD this year. As it falls on Rememberance Sunday, I think Dave will be unable to attend, but will have to wait and see. I'm fancying something WWII'ish for a change, but still early days yet.
Some nice new terrain Steve. I would share some of our fine weather with you if I could, although even here, we have had a lot more rain since mid-December than is usual, so perhaps we can't spare it anyway?! Funny how different people think - I like bad weather for painting, I don't feel so "guilty" for sitting in the garage all day if its not a nice, sunny day!
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith:)! I don't mind painting in bad weather, in fact it's my preferred option, but when you can't really do anything else because of the weather, it loses its lustre:(. Mind you I've just read that Aboyne in Aberdeenshire has had 376mm of rainfall so far, which is nearly half its annual total!!! Maybe I shouldn't complain having read this...
DeleteA post of varied delights. I wonder if Skoda still make artillery. I could do with some for my 1939 Poles too. I've always fancied saying to an opponent commanding Germans - you've just been hit by the Skodas.
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Glad you liked the pot pourri offering this post:). No idea if they still make armaments or not, but you've reminded me of the jokes about Skoda cars from the 1980's!
DeleteYour terrain is always a delight to look at, and I’m very impressed with the freestanding advertising signs matey. Top stuff as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark:)! I've had the posters for probably around 20 years, so it was nice to finally get my butt in gear and make the freestanding hoardings. Maybe I should have a police car to hide behind them as in the US movies😉?
DeleteLovely work - your terrain is always impressive 👍🏼
ReplyDeleteps 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞, that’s what it looks like, I’m told 🙃
Thanks Martin:)! We are told that we will get a one day window of sunny weather on Saturday, which will be a very welcome break in the weather, before a return to more of the same, possibly for the foreseeable future!
DeleteSplendid work on the terrain, Steve. And a usefully cunning way of getting round a figure painting block too! Unlike 28mm scale buildings etc., they should be much easier to store as well. Win-Win! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks David and certainly a good substitute for painting figures:)! Storage is sooo much easier, with most of it comfortable fitting in small drawer units.
DeleteLovely terrain and bits ‘n’ bobs Steve 👏👏 Most impressive, as we’ve come to expect from you. The cultivated fields are a nice touch (how many times to we see large fields of ploughed crops in medieval or earlier games?).
ReplyDeleteLots of rain here in t’ North too. Recent days have been 80%+ of really, really fine drizzle - and one of our dogs doesn’t like getting wet 😉
Cheers,
Geoff
Thanks Geoff:)! I did think the smaller allotments/fieldsk well for Lion Rampant games, where large scale cultivation would have been different to what we see now. Fingers crossed we're actually due a dry and sunny day on Saturday!
DeleteLovely terrain as always, love the advertising hoardings and big Bertha! Mostly wet here but apart from dog walking, Im happy painting figures inside when its raining, nice to jump between terrain and figures though!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain:)! It's nice to be able to chop and change, so with a small window of dry weather forecast, I hope to get out for a but, alongside setting up my first game of the year. At least today the walk was dry and bright for the first time in ages!
DeleteA grand assembly of gaming items there SteveJ!
ReplyDeleteThanks David! Your games always spur me on to add more scenic scatter:).
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