Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Caesarian casualties
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Terrain Tuesday - markers and mini Diorama
First one for the year some table additions buildings and mini dioramas for scatter
a foundry lady with a Mirliton donkey, love this!
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Terrain Tuesday - Civilian car
Terrain Tuesday returns
Since I now have some evenings to return to painting minis I thought it was a good idea to kick off my terrain Tuesdays again (as my 3d filament printer has been going most of summer and autumn! )
I like to add civilian pieces to my tables and often will have a look in the charity shops for suitable pieces, this is late 20s early 1930s car for my ww2 or SCW table. I am thinking of adding luggage etc as though it is a refugee vehicle, but may just leave it to park next to terrain. This piece has been on my painting table for some time so I thought I would just complete it today. Quite happy with the results.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Gladiators Dust and Shadows Terrain Tuesday Arena build part two
Gladiator Arena
Terrain Tuesday
My standard terrain boards are 600 x 600 |
Ruler as compass |
The Arena Base 40 x 45 oblong |
Upper arean piece, this will form the walls |
I moved the edge in so I could add shops against the wall |
The stairs and seating is laid out |
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Gladiators Dust and Shadows Part one
We are but Dust & Shadows
Terrain Tuesday Gladiator Arena thoughts
Model at the Museum of Jublains |
On one of the tours we visited our local Amphitheatre at Jublains, the former Roman capital of the Diablintes tribe about 10 klms away from the Maison. This gave me inspiration for two things. One was the Gallic farm buildings (see previous post) and the other was gladiators.
I am yet to build the amphitheatre, however I want it to be around two x two foot tile, oval which will look a little different, with a removable rear wall so I can remove it then also add a straight section and second corner for chariot racing on the big table.
The arena tile will then also fit on my chess table for extra transportable use around the house.
I have six gladiators already completed for around 10 years or so, but also had a lot unpainted gladiators, animals and chariots, so this week I added another 20 odd to the table front and centre, and most will be off the table this week over the coming days while the blood is up!
I am yet to find a suitable set of rules which would be good for French Wargame Holiday evening games, looking at Steve Barbers gladiators set and possibly the old board game set, any other suggestions ?
Jublains Amphitheatre 1st Century AD
Artists Impression of Jublains Arena I will build something like this with removable wall |
Cheers
Matt
Friday, November 5, 2021
Oh la Vache (holy cow!)
Oh la Vache!
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Terrain Tuesday Gallic Village and buildings Part 1
Gallic buildings
My next terrain project is to get back to building some ancient terrain, first thing to complete is some Gallic buildings that can be stand alone or part of my hill fort build.Inspiration will be taken from our local museum and the archeological report from Moulay Gallic fortress, the oppidum / hill fort is about 5klm from our house.
When wargamers build typical Gallic building they predominantly build round ones, looking at the archeological report on the 60HA site at Moulay only 10% were round and mostly animal shelters, workshops or storage. The majority are rectangular and some are quite big and include a theatre /council amphitheatre in Greek style, and a shrine.
typical Gallic buildings |
artist impression of the workshops |
Gaulois building typical at Moulay 53BC |
Gaulois building typical at Moulay 53BC |
Theatre
one of the buildings was a theatre or perhaps a parliament council, or sale yard, I want to add this model to my village.Gallic Farms
Gallic Farm steas with it own boundary ditch and walls, these are all along the roads leading into the village along the route of the modern motorway |
Gallic farm model |
Gallic Head Hunter Shrine
Gallic head hunter shrine near Tours |
Stone pillars the heads were placed in the hollowed out pieces Excited to get cracking on these! cheers Matt |
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Terrain Tuesday Tree Renovations - Part 11 Bigger is Better
Bigger is Better when it comes to Trees
As my collection is predominantly 28mm (4500 odd painted figures) I have decided to up my anti and build 28mm scale trees particularly for my Gaulois collection and dark age/early medieval before the fields really started to be tended locally, plus really good for my larger forest stands. These trees are made using my usual practice of oven dried hedge clippings then rubberised horse hair and then woodland scenics powdered flock, basing products, and a large washer on a 50mm base so it fits the magnetic tree base.If you look at part ten you will of seen a tutorial my method of construction step by step Here
Very happy with the first six, now I need some more flock !
Cheers
Matt
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Tree Renovations Part 10 Tree Tutorial
Terrain Tuesday Trees Part 10
Making a wargames tree......
How too
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Dark Age markers
Last week was hectic with Vanessa’s birthday, renovation of a timber floor and guests from Holland and France, plus another birthday party so not a lot of time to complete much at all. I did get some time on the bench for terrain and a complete the basing of a few units. Today as a rest day I completed a few plastic kits that remained from my 30 day kit challenge.
This week I should complete another two units for my Breton independence wars and some more work on my ongoing Napoleonic projects, Baden, French and Prussians. Later in the week some more ww2 and medieval are also lined up in the queue as the weather has improved perfect for the airbrush!
These markers were simple and have been sitting in my to do’s pile for some time, the shields have been completed for a long time, all transfers except for the Norman kite shield. I just needed to sand the bases paint and glue them on. More dark ages coming as I have started assembling my Victrix Vikings …..perhaps next month.
Dark Age Disorder Markers |
Matt
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Modern Civilian cars and Technicals
Technicals and Civilian vehicles
Porsche 924 My dream car in 1985 before I knew about V8s.... |
BMW 733, my uncle had one of these in about 87 |
Mercedes 350SL two door.....so sexy |
Citroen SM I was excited to find this! |
James Bond my feature in his swimming lotus esprit! |
A caravan, the second one, I think it will join a lakeside camp perhaps |
Mercedes Benz 2400, It will join my Bundesgrenzschutz |