South European Village - Damaged house part 2

Below are a selection of pictures showing the construction of damaged house two. I base all my 28mm scale buildings on 2mm thick plywood. As used by dolls house builders, works much better than art board with no danger of warping when glued or painted.

Around the main house base can be seen two of the sabot bases with sand and small gravel added, the gravel is from a cactus buying phase the daughter went through many moons ago, I got a lifetime supply out of that phase. Also added are some granite chipping’s from the pavement out side our estate. A pile of foam bricks cut up from the removed poly board can be seen in the second photo.

The cross hatching in white on the top picture showed where I was going to cutout the walls and the smaller cross hatching show’s where I will strip of the card covering from the poly board to expose the foam layer. The next picture above shows the foam scored to represent the exposed bricks where the render covering has fallen away.

The picture above shows the remains of the second floor made from lollipop sticks cut horizontally, which is removable, also on the cutting mat is half of the roof made from the ubiquitous coffee stirrers. Till next time stay safe, TTFN, Airhead.

South European village - Damaged house 1

Damaged house 1 from my 28mm scale generic south European village. I wanted to have at least a couple of damaged if not totally flattened houses amongst the half dozen houses making up the village. One thing I like to see in other people’s terrain is building which when modelled in a damaged state don’t look as though some one has been round and swept most of the rubble, smashed beams and roof tiles away! 

To try and represent a realistically damaged house the first thing I do is build the whole house without any damage. Making it easy to get the right amount of rubble to go with the house. With damaged houses I always paint the insides to represent wallpaper on the walls, I keep it simple and use marker pens to add simple stripes or designs.

Next time I’ll post some more WIP pictures showing my process of disassembling the house and adding texture and rubble. Stay safe Airhead

Irregular miniatures & H&R ancient India 1/300 scale army

Initial opposition for my Macedonian army, only nine elements of the required twelve finished yet, the cavalry are all H&R figures, the three archer units are Irregular figures as are the chariots. The elephant units are a combination of the two manufacturers, three elephants per stand, Irregular in the centre flanked by slightly smaller H&R elephants on both sides.

More stands to come, H&R chariots next up, they will be an interesting contrast to the Irregular ones already completed. 

TTFN stay safe

Airhead

H&R 1/300 DBA Macedonian army

I’ve only had these figures for this last 20 years, finally painted over the last few months. Pleased with how they have turned out so far, still more to finish, only 11 of the 12 units finished for the basic DBA army. I’m going for 24 unit army’s for BBDBA of Macedonian, Persian, Indian and Scythian.

All the Macedonian figures are from Heroic & Ross, some of the other army’s include Irregular figures which although very different in style to the H&army figures, but paint up really well, more of these to follow in the next few posts.

More to follow in this scale and smaller!! Funny how fashions/gaming scales change over time. Following in Mark Backhouses and the inimitable Sidney Roundwoods footsteps into the world of the very small and the even smaller.

TTFN stay safe

Airhead 

Generic south European village

Just a quick post of a test picture of my generic south European village, which at a stretch could cover southern France, Italy, Spain

All the buildings pushed together on my cutting matt, for storage, no real art director of the picture. All 28mm made from foam core board and scraps and the ubiquitous coffee stirrers. Painted with my usual combination of Wilco’s match pots.

Going forward - terrain - and other stuff

Well it’s been a while! And how the world has moved on. But let’s not talk about that bit. 

Today is my first day as a none member of the working population since the mid 1980’s due to the combination of redundancy/retirement. So what to do?

This place is distinctly dusty and unloved at the moment, so as I’ve rashly promised in the past, time for some updates, this is just a test to check out the new interface, and using an iPad. So fingers crossed as to how this will look.

Over the WFH & lockdown I have managed to be quite productive for me:

FPW Prussian jägers 28mm x16

1/300 H&R Macedonian v Indians (only had the figures since the 1980’s) 

28mm South European generic village, still a WIP

Some 54mm WSS figures

So over the next few weeks I’m aiming to update around the topics above, fingers crossed this works.

TTFN Airhead - Stay safe. 

Happy Christmas.

To all who pass by this part of the web. After this years total fail on the blogging front I'm aiming for a vast improvement next year. I've had a rubbish couple of years. With ill health in the family. These issues have now resolved themselves. So I'm aiming to up my post rate exponentially as they say.

On the blog front I'm going to broaden the scope of the blog to include more figure and modelling output rather than focusing just on terrain.

All the best to you all and have a happy Christmas and a great 2017

Airhead