A possible battlefield

Hi,

Just got some more terrain tiles from TableTopModellbau and started to arrange a new possible battlefield.

I wanted to have some more tiles for creating a lake to get my ship on the board and here is the result.

The only thing by creating a new setting on the whole table (2,40m x 1,60m) is to discover that there is still a lot to do. Painting up some pieces of the fort, giving the ship a few layers of paint and so on ...

Cheers

Mike

FIW - Corn plants for the gaming table

Hi,

I have seen a post on a Facebook group concerning corn plants.

These are from JTT, an American Company producing different things for model railways.  

So I started searching for a German distributor selling those plants and finally found it in

http://aspenmodels.com/?reqp=1&reqr=

I just got me two packs in scale HO (30 plants per pack) and another two in scale O (28 plants per pack).

They look great. A few years ago I posted a tutorial on producing corn plants. A fiddly thing and so I was lucky to find similar plants ready for gaming.

I decided to base them using only one plant per base (1,5 - 2cm washers). Sounds strange but the reason for this decision was that I wanted to be able to place the figures within the field without having large pieces of plants to be lifted. It was meant for skirmish games like „Muskets&Tomahawks“ and in my opinion it works very good.

Cheers

Mike

The Fort - Do it yourself

Hi folks,

again it has been a very long time since my last post.
Again I was busy and time for the hobby was rare.
But I have been creating some new things.

I always wanted to have a fort for my FIW-figures and for Muskets&Tomahawks.
I also wanted to have a fort that was not one block but that could be built up in different ways.
So I started a project last year and I think it was worth doing it.

The fort is made from coffee sticks and from wooden sticks of about 5mm x 5mm.
I broke the edges of each plank and gave them a structure by using a metal brush, so that the drybrushing would have a nice effect.

It took me a long time to realize this project and I want to expand this fort with some other parts.

For there are four towers on the edges the fort can only be build up in two different ways. So what is missing are some more parts for simple edges. I´ve done these corners last week and they only need to be painted

The fort is ready for action but I am thinking about doing some more expansions. Let´s see what would be next. :)

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