For the first Results of the WSS wargaming survey 2016 go here and here.
And by the way if you haven’t taken part yet there is time until the 19th of august
Finished of the wire wool trees
You remember the wire or steel wool trees I started a few weeks back? I came to this end:
Now I found the time to base them properly on mdf bases and added rocks and scatter . They look like this now:
Here are a few closeup pictures of the rocks and scatter:
They are done with cork bark and gravel and grid . Hope you like what you see!
Next up my improved TSS river tiles.
New stamps for representing stones on Styrodure and a template for roman doors and windows.
I got two stamps for texturing walls from MiniWorlds a italian company and a template for roman doors and windows. The two wall texturing stamps are only two examples there are many more on their web page.
Here is the first one: The MT 009 San marino type
This stamp is to be placed on a piece of Styrodure and pressed into it to imprint the stone layout into the Styrodure. You will get this:
Depending on the stability of the Styrodure, there are different grades of toughness, you might need a hammer to make this work ( like shown on the companies website. It took less then 5 minutes to do this. Doing the engraving by hand would take considerably longer.
Next up is the MT013 Siviglia type:
This is what you get after using :
Both stamps can be joint to produce bigger ares of stone on the Styrodure , just align them properly.
What I got too is a product called minimask. A stencil template to do roman arched windows and doors . Also from MiniWorlds. You use this to draw window and doors onto the Styrodure to cut them out later. One word of warning though the one I got was very fragile.
This is MM001 roman arches:
Excuse the bad picture . Better ones are on the companies website .
When you place them on the Styrodur you van use the one cm lines on the template to align them properly.
Here is what you get when you use both devices :
And together with the other template:
All in all a very good product . Recommended but using a hammer is necessary.
I will use these to build some buildings in the future so watch this space.
The Great Wargaming Survey 2016
Again another year gone by. How time flies ! Here is the 2016 WSS Survey . If you want to take part go here. And yes there is something to be won.
A campaign map with TSS tiles
I own a lot of TSS 2′ square terrain tiles for my wargaming table. I wanted to use these for a campaignn system,too. So I thought about a way of cataloging and using the tiles electronically .
As I am not that good with computer graphics but use powerpoint a lot, I used that program for my needs.
The TSS tiles are 3D modular Styrofoam boards with rivers tracks etc on them. I bought quite a lot a few years ago but certain typs are still missing , wich I will build myself in the future ( expect to see a how too later).
So here is a screenshot from the tiles I did with powerpoint:
Top row just plain grasslandd, then hill contours ,roads/tracks, build up areas(to place buildings on, River tiles, Coastline and open water and last my castle .
Next I did some overlays :
two 4 part hills, trees, a pond, a swamp, a church, a house, a manor house .
I will add other overlays and tiles when I actually have build them for my gaming table.
Here is a sample map I did with the tiles:
So when two armies meet on this campaign map ( which in this case is very small I know) it is very easy now for me to translate that onto my gaming table. The only thing I have to figure out is how to calculate movement on the campaign map in relation to movement on the table. If you have an idea please post it here!!!
The red area is the amount of tiles fitting on my gaming table ( 4×7 tiles). This red rectangular can be moved and turned around so that you exactly know what the table has to look like. Here are two more examples:
When I do more I will show the progress here . I hope this might be useful for you. I think with this approach it makes much more sense to fight for a bridge or a hamlet then just fight one of battles.
GoT over Borkum
this is a picture I took jesterday evening over the beaches of the north sea island Borkum
A dragon in the sky . Couldn’t make out Kalesi though😄
The Glover Knights banner bearer
This is the Glover Knight unit banner bearer. I designed the banner differently from my other banners this time. In the books the banners of the sworn Houses are always or at least very often described as showing the Sigil of the house they are sworn to above the own house sigil. Here it is House Stark above House Glover. This makes for a bit of variety on the field of battle later on.
The figure was build with parts from Perry and Fireforge . As can be seen here:
And more pictures of the knight:
And the complete unit (missing one knight, which is not painted yet):
And the complete House Glover mesnie ( – one knight)
And I somehow forgot to show you the House Brax mesnie as far as it is finished last time . So here are the pictures:
Hope you like what you see ! If so feel free to leave a like or a comment
The next House Brax Crossbowman
The next crossbowman, again build from the Perry french HyW Box.
When I finish this unit, another 5 figures to do, I will start to work on my terrain tiles. I got these a few years back from TSS. These are a good start for a terrain system but I would like to have them more realistically finished . I would like to add reeds to the river section , make the water in the river and ponds more realistic and add more gravel here and there . Then I will add some new sections to the river like a little harbor a watermill and I want to do a few tiles for a village or small town. After that of course I will have to do some more buildings.
So you see after my summer holiday there will be a prolonged time of terrain building first and of course when the Westfalia halfmen army arrives at my doorstep I will paint those too. So a lot to do for the coming month!
Another billman for the Brax army
Here is another Billman for my Brax Army. Another Perry plastic WotR figure, build from different plastic boxes can’t remember really wish ones I used sorry.
The next Brax Crossbowman
This Crossbowman was build from the Perry French 100 years war plastic box.
The 6th season of GoT is over but the unit building for my GoT armies will go on.
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