This is my first proper terrain entry. In between watching pain dry, I thought I would try my hand at some hedges to line or be fixed to fields. Materials used - Pan scrub? Check; Lots of PVA? Check; Various types of flock? Check; Isopropyl alcolhol? Check; Lollipop sticks? Check.
These are designed for use with my 15mm chaps in France, for my poor BEF chaps to lurk behind. but then my regular gaming chum got his hands on the latest Battlegroup book for Italy and suddenly I could also use these as a Vineyard. They are based so that they can be used as both, with a light earth AK terrain paste on 6" lollipop sticks instead of being fixed to fields. This means that when I am defending in Italy I can have serried ranks of vines to impede any advance. But when attacking I can place the edges facing me, thus opening up avenues of fire. I am sure no one will notice.
This is my first attempt at terrain, so please be gentle with me. i have spotted bare patches where the flock didn't stick to the pan scrub, so I will have to fix that. (I only spotted this when looking at the photos, it is not as noticable from six feet away).
I have included a 15mm Peter Pig chappie for scale. He is pointing so must be important. Also in one of the shots there is a ruler to show length.
Without further ado, let's get on with the show.
I am also trying to improve my photography, there are some incedibly talented photographers in this challenge and I am looking at things like lighting and background and trying to copy with what I have to hand.
Thank you for looking.
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Hello Robert, these are lovely looking terrain bits and very similar to how I made my bocage years ago. The idea of using them as vineyard rows is a great one as well that I had not thought of. It would have been nice to have a few work in progress pictures as a mini guide for others on how they were built so that they could follow along. I am sure they will get a ton of use in various games. Great work.
Now however, the bad news. I am going to award a few points for the painting of the bases (1 point per strip), BUT other than that there is no real painting here. This being a painting challenge there are no points awarded for building things (hence the reason we are allowed to build and prime figures before the challenge) and almost everything there is simply built, not painted. I say this, not because your work is not lovely, but because I have to remain consistent and there is not much actual painting here. That said, I have no issue with people posting these types of terrain posts, especially if you include steps on how to make them to help other people out, but I just can not award points for painting if no painting was done. I am sorry if you didn't understand about the painting part from the rules before hand, and you did create some nice terrain here, so I hope having the terrain for your games is reward in itself.
- Byron
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