From PaulSS: More terrain pieces for our France 1940 games (60 Points)

A few weeks ago my copy of Setting the Scene II arrived in Wisconsin and I've been inspired by it. I've already got quite a lot of Mediterranean terrain for my Spanish Civil War games, but am just starting out on some France 1940 gaming so used the book for some inspiration for scenery for those games.

All the terrain has been built over the last couple of weeks and was primed with dark brown paint ready for this mornings starting gun. By 0630 this morning I'd settled down at the painting table with a cup of tea and was ready to make a start.

The first thing completed was a couple of sections of walled orchard, per Pats recommendations, the tree armatures are from Woodland Scenics while the walls were carved out of high density pink foam board. The gate was made using the method described in the book.

The next piece is a rather horrible Sarissa Precision house from their Americana range. This took rather a lot of prep-work to get it more like I wanted it. I'm not bothered about having access to the interior, so, the windows were filled in with cereal box to be painted as glazing and the roof stuck down permanently.

I added barge boards and planking to cover the bad corner joints, the stone effect chimney and footings were completely redone by gluing on small chips of stone then rendering it with Polyfilla, a gate and fence were added at the back to create a small yard area.

I'm much happier now with how it looks than the original kit.

I'd built and painted a small stable with fenced area a couple of weeks ago and quite liked how it came out, so set too to make another one for the challenge.

The stable is made out of artists mount board then planked with cut coffee stirrers. The fence posts are matchsticks while the fencing is also split coffee stirrers.

The gate, like that one from the orchard is constructed as per Pats instructions. The roof is mount board painted as tar-paper held down with some planks of wood and a boulder.

The last thing painted today was a couple of wall sections made from small pebbles stuck onto tongue depressors, these are quite an easy build but I think they look quite effective and come in very handy.

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Welcome back to the Challenge, Paul.  Wow, great looking terrain! I especially like your walled orchards and the work you did on the chimney for the Sarrissa piece - as you say, it totally upgrades the overall look of the model. 

I'll err on the side of caution and divvy out 3 'cubes' worth for your sterling efforts. Well done!