Hobby round up 2015 week 3

Week three already!?

This week its all about building things.

First up we have Simon, who has been building, err... buildings...

 

At last years Salute we spent a large amount of the club funds on some 4ground buildings to increase the amount of scenery in our WW2 games. Once back home in Bristol we gave them all to Simon who built them all for us.

 

This is the Hotel complex, including Stables which he has recently finished.

 

 

Next on his building list, is this Norse Longhouse, which we'll be using when we begin Elliot's Saga campaign.

 

Talking of Elliot, between writing the rules for the campaign, he has been building some reinforcements for his Warriors of Chaos Nurgle force.

 

 

With The End Times introducing some beautiful new models, a few of us have invested in some figures, which will hopefully hit the battlefield soon

Check Point

As a club we're really enjoying Bolt Action, and so we continue to add more scenery to our collection.

A lot of the stuff we have is scratch built, but recently we bought some new pieces from 4ground, including a check point, which I present to you now.

The instructions weren't the best, but then again this was a very easy piece to put together. I've added some a lick of paint to the shed, and a wanted sign to one of the sign posts.

Hope you like

East is восток

4Ground are currently churning out a lot of terrain.

Recently released were Eastern Front style log cabins in 15mm scale and I was lucky enough to assemble the ones we got for the Wolves (not that there was much fighting!)

We got the village which is 4 buildings for £25, with a 10% discount for being newsletter subscribers. Nice! Zed has the 4th to do.

These things flew together very easily. The pieces came out of the wooden sprues with no problems, in fact most just fell out!

If you've ever done any scratch building or kit building these will cause no problems at all. Excluding drying times for the glue I probably took less than an hour to assemble all 3. The roofs are removable to allow placement of troops. You can get one standard flames of war base in each.

Only real criticism I have is the "lugs" that help put the roof together are clearly visible once stuck together. You could paint these out with the right colour match but I didn't want to risk it!

I quite fancy making a village base for them to bring them together and add a bit of life but that can wait!

Highly recommended for some Eastern front feel to your table top.

score:

Четыре из пяти степняков

(4 out of 5 steppe dwellers)