More for the table.........

Well here I am again with an update on the scenery that the club has recently purchased for DMH and 15mm WWII games (FoW & BG).
In the previous post you saw the start of my manic building as soon as I opened the box which contained the 4Ground DMH buildings, the next evening continued at the same sort of pace.....

First up the Sheriff's office inc the jail which has break out bits......

Next was the big Undertakers, this is a fantastic model with plastic windows and paper cut outs for the banners.

 

 

These two take the building count to 6 for DMH which is great for the size of table needed.....must admit if 4Ground do a bank, hotel & railway station I'll be badgering the rest of the club to get those too......

 

As you can see the table looks good but with a few more feature buildings it would look great..

 

 

Finally the WIP 15mm stuff...

 

This stuff is from Commission Figurines, although there are only a few pieces to put together I found that these were a little more time consuming due to the need for a dry run first as some of the pegs that hold the buildings together needed to be trimmed a little, also the fact that they now need to be painted is a little annoying for me. 4Ground is ready to go once stuck. Still very good models and the detail is great just needs a little more on the inside, slightly better cut and a paint job. 9 of them built over two evenings.

Anyway that's it for laser cut buildings for the foreseeable future, it's back to the foam card Mordhiem buildings for me.......they should be done ready for the New Year.





Stuff.....

Well look at me two posts in one week.......

It's been a busy evening hobby wise, as I mentioned in my previous post the club has decided to look at the scenery we have also to look at new stuff, so to the reason why the post.....
As a club we have been using 4Ground for Flames of War/Battlegroup, Bolt Action and of course Deadmans Hand (DMH). As a club we finally decided to add to DMH with the release of the new Undertakers (I've been wanting more for some time, the club just needed convincing).
Look what turned up on my doorstep this evening just as I got home.....

 

Now after a few hours work (I say work but I enjoy the building part), first the gallows and carts.

 

 

Also the yard panel fence without the gates, those are still to be built.

 

 

Over the rest of the weekend I have 1. The Undertakers, 2. The Sheriffs Office  3. Yard Panel Fencing with Gates.......should all be done by Sunday evening ready for DMH Wednesday night.



4Ground 15mm Terrace House Review

With all our games the look of the table is one of the important components of a satisfying game.  We have been dabbling with various manufacturers of 15mm terrain and will no doubt continue to do so but with our latest purchase we have found something rather special in the 4Ground product.

We all range in abilities and interest when it comes to scenery, I for one quite enjoy building and painting scenery but just can't fit it into my schedule, but we are all feeling the pinch especially with our time so we have tried a couple of prepainted buildings.

For £20 the three house terrace comes flat packed. You need to remove each component from the frame; this is easy to do by hand and whilst there is a small amount of cleaning up to do it is easily achieved with a sharp knife or a piece of sandpaper.  Assembly is simple and, as long as you read the instructions and look at the picture, easy to follow each stage.  The only section I found tricky was the two dormer windows in the roof which I used a dab of hot glue to fix, for the rest of the model I used PVA or white glue.  I recommend leaving some time between stages to allow the glue to dry.  Overall it took a hour to complete not including drying time.

Below are a few pictures of the completed project, the doors are supplied brown but I chose to paint and gloss these myself.  The posters on the building are supplied as part of the instructions and I fixed them to the building with some thinned PVA.  My only comment is that I would have liked some prepainted floors for the interior but this is really nitpicking.

Score: 10 out of 10 maison d'hôtes

It's all about the terrain

A lot of games we play utilise WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get; the effects are often WYSILOB = what you see is lots of bickering

Within our regular gaming group terrain and how it is handled is not a subject of constant discussion but it is the subject of constant commentary.   Often containing one or more of the following words – What!? - Rubbish! - Really? - Pointless! - Wanker!  Depending on which rules are being used terrain or scenery can either be as depicted by the ‘piece’ or it may confer an effect.  A wood is a good example of this; does a wood on a base mean that the whole base is wooded or just where the trees are located on the base?  This will lead to either or both of these statements “I can see across the base but don’t have line of sight? That’s a load of shi…”, “I can shoot across the base (WYSIWYG) as I have line of sight, and you are not in cover Ha! In your face!”

15mm Hedge for Flames of War

This is my second attempt at 15mm scale hedge.  A few small improvements to be made but certainly good enough for the table

For those that are interested, I used a hot glue gun to stick clump foliage on to strips of hardboard.  I then coated the foliage with watered down PVA glue and left to dry (about 2 days)  Then went back and used PVA and sand on the bare areas.  Three shades of brown and then some static grass.  Only another 11ft to paint and static grass and we will be fighting in the rural heartland of your favourite country.

Scenary WIP

Hello one and all, it's been a while since I have put anything on here so sorry if it doesn't work out right.

I've always wanted the club to start playing Mordhiem again for a few simple reasons: 1 only a few models to convert and paint (even I can do that), 2 it's an easy game to play from what I remember.

So with this in mind and the fact that some of the guys are play DH with fantasy scenery I thought it would be a good idea to look at getting a town built for multi use.

Having played Mordhiem in the past I still had the old cardboard buildings and put them to good use as templates for extra buildings.

All 3 of these houses are on the same sized base but as it's a town I thought a larger building would be needed for the local pub and thus building 4 was constructed.

So as a start for the clubs town it's going well, looking at getting about another 6 houses and a church with graveyard sorted. As and when this happens the blog will be updated.