Tuesday 23 October 2018

MDF Ruin

As a step back from making hills, I decided to take a couple of my pieces of MDF ruins and base them to make a more usable terrain piece. So far I like how its gone and so I may make a lot more for use for Frostgrave and Bolt Action.

I started off by selecting the two pieces and marking out on a base the outline of the former building. The planks were marked out using a stanley knife whilst the exterior cobbles were formed using a rotary tool.



Once the pieces are glued down I'll be adding sculptamold around the joins and texturing them to give the appearance of rubble piles. I will also add some tufts and flock to the cracks in the slabs.


Friday 19 October 2018

Hills For Sale

Just wanted to give you an example of the hills I am making and selling both through here and at Lancaster Board and Sword.


Here is a few of the selection of hills I'm producing. As you can imagine there is not going to be a fixed shape or size as these are handmade.


Once these are completed then I will be bulk building a few outcrops and linear terrain. This first selection of hills is my desert range - although they also fit in quite nicely with my Southern Italy/Sicily based Fallschirmjager.






The minis you see are from Warlord games and are a range of plastic and metal miniatures. There seems to be a good range of places that they can stand - an issue with a lot of hills I have witnessed.

If you have any requests for either a listed product or something you'd like on commission then please contact me here.

Thursday 18 October 2018

Rommel - Operation Brevity

Not the best of reports but a few pictures to show my Desert battleboard in action. Another product available on Price upon Request basis.

Original Set Up - Germans to the right, British to left with Italian forces holding Sollum in foreground.
The game ran well - had a good to and fro to it. The conclusion was always in doubt until eventually the relentless nature left the British with insufficient troops to make any more attacks.

British Forces attacking Sollum
All in all, a good game. Mistakes were made and we'll learn before our next game - Dan is keen to swap sides and give this scenario another go before we move onto some more complex scenarios.
British throw up defences around a captured checkpoint. Unfortunately they were well spent and German forces were able to retake the positions.
In future I may look at buying some smaller mins to play out these desert combats in future.