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Seeing this image recently from an old White Dwarf.
It reminded me how good GW epic scale custom made scenery was. The Dwarf and the (older) rule books were full of these kind of pictures. Which is why I wish the Epic Armageddon book had being full of these kind of pictures (or even these pictures) rather than the (cartoony) artwork from the collectable card game.
Try your local model railway shop…
I was in my local toyshop looking for presents for my son, when I checked out the model railway section.
Two things caught my eye for having a use on the gaming table, Hornby’s Skaledale range and the Cararama range of 1/72nd vehicles.
Hornby’s Skaledale range is a superb range of ready painted resin UK 1/72nd buildings that would be excellent for any Operation Sealion type game. This pub is typical of the quality of the range.
There is also a range of modern stuff that could be used for a modern type scenario. These skips are an example of the Skaledale range.
You can see pictures of all the range on the Hornby website.
There is also a N gauge range which could be used with 15mm figures at a push. 15mm is approx 1/100th scale and N is 1/160th scale.
The Cararama range of vehicles would be ideal for any moderns game in providing some real background scenery. These are highly detailed scale model cars.
There are also quite a few for a scenario set in the 1960s.
This really nice model of an Ork watchtower can be seen at the Games Workshop store in Glasgow.
The majority of the model was actually made from the wooden stirrers you get at Starbucks.
Dynamic Dioramas has some photographs of some amazing dioramas with a lot of attention to detail.
Well worth a look.
I got these houses quite a few years back (along with an excellent Town Hall).
They have been perfect for fantasy games, Flintloque and even Warhammer 40K!
I am hoping to get some more one day so that I can build more of a town with them.
Here are more pictures of the ruins are from GW’s forthcoming Warmaster scale Battle of the Five Armies game.
here is another one
The Battle of the Five Armies is from JRR Tokien’s superb story, The Hobbit, and is a large mass battle between goblins and wargs, versus the armies of dwarves, elves and man, with Eagles, a dragon, and some hobbits…
The ruins also look ideal for Epic as well.
This is the superb Warhammer Thatched Cottage from Forgeworld sculptured and painted by Simon Harris.
It took him a day to paint the model and a week to plant the garden…
This superb scenery was on display on the Lord of the Rings stand at the UK Games Day 2004.
It was one of three models of Hobbit homes on display.
At GamesDay 2003, there was a massive Warmaster demonstration game and one of the ley features were some excellent temples.
According to a variety of sources these were one off miniatures designed by Forgeworld and are not available to buy. Pity.
One of my favourite pieces of scenery has to be the Epic Cathedral from Forgeworld.
I like the fact it is based on the ruins from the Epic40K boxed set and therefore fits in well not just with the other Forgeworld buildings, but also the ruins. Other bits are from the Imperator Titan which adds to the Imperial feel of the building.
It is a hefty piece of resin and certainly dominates the battlefield.