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One of my Christmas presents was a couple of ruins from Total Battle Miniatures.
I got the ruined row of three houses and the ruined row of four houses.
They look like very nice clean castings and I think I may get some more to add to my ruined Normandy village for Flames of War.
So what did you get for Christmas?
Tower from a Warhammer Historical demonstation game at GamesDay 2009.
These boards were in Warhammer World.
Some really nice conversions of the Chapel and Fortified Tower.
As well as the new Italian Monastery, another piece of new scenery for Flames of War will also be released on the 30th July and that is some Italian vineyards.
Fancy a glass of wine anyone?
Of course these vineyards would work equally well in France, though Normandy was more likely to contain apple orchards, other areas of France which the Allies fought through did contain vineyards. They look like they are made out of solid resin and I am not sure how effective they will look, as most vineyards are not as solid as these appear.
For example have a look at this real Italian vineyard.
As you can see yes there are lines of vines, but they are not very solid. I am thinking that using wire and foliage might result in a better looking vineyard than the resin models.
What do you think?
Some very nice snowy terrain from GamesDay 2008. Making use of the Arcane Architecture models and the Might Fortress.
These are the opening shots of a recent game of Flames of War. Alas the models were only painted to a “basecoat” standard, normally I wouldn’t play a game with “unpainted” tanks, but still have some way to go with the models and we are still working out how to play the rules. The game consisted of a German armoured column being ambushed by British armour.
Here a German Tiger is ambushed by a couple of M10s and some Dingos.
Cromwells and a Challenger are on the hill on the other side of the road.
The Germans have Panthers and Stugs in addition to the Tiger.
For a recent game of Flames of War I prepared quite a busy field of battle.
Using hills, lichen and trees. The few buildings were some Hovels’ ruins and some Hornby N Gauge buildings.
Scenery from a Lord of the Rings game at GamesDay 2010.
Having drybrushed with Tauspet Ochre, I noticed that there were some areas which I had missed with the base coat. So I decided to give the craters a wash of Devlan Mud wash. However as you can see from this close up it didn’t work.
So I have decided to do some touching up to fix this. However apart from this I was quite pleased with the wash effect in toning down the drybrushing, though I am going to drybrush a little more.
