Being a modeller for quite a few years now, I decided to explore the endless possibilities that the world (through internet) offers, and come up with a series of ways of building, modelling and painting fast (but not hastily), to create the worlds I was seeing in history books since I was little. . .If you care to join me. . . This is the place to be!
And, I promise you to find the way (or ways)!!
Today I'm going to show you my latest addition to my ever growing collection of terrain pieces (mostly handmade, as most of you that follow this blog already know).
Since I'm a cheap git (my fellow English friends may raise their fingers for my misbehaviour - I heard it in a movie and I liked it), I was trying to come up with a way of making some cheap, durable and respectful (in terms of wargaming feasibility) stone walls for my little men.
I browsed the internet for some ideas, but the answer came through one of my wargaming buddies, Vaggelis, who's trying to entice me into the world of Chain Of Command rules - he didn't try much tbh, since I didn't need much of an effort to indulge myself into something new hobby related thing.
He told me to use PVA, and plastic decorative gravel. Yes, you got that right, some PVA and plastic gravel. Below, you will see how easy it is to make some - good, for the eye at least - stone walls by combining these two, and easy to find materials.
I started from this:
And got into this:
Watch the video and spread the word, spread the word guys, so we can all play!
Have a great Monday evening everyone. :-)
T.
P.S: If you care to see how I made the small barn next to the stone walls, see this post.
These past few weeks I have been on a modelling project, for the wargaming club I'm a member (a totally new period for me, I can only say that it has to do with the Great War...) and I didn't have much spare time to indulge myself with anything but.
However, below you will see some photos, of one cannon limber and one ammunition wagon, destined to serve my little men, in wars of the 18th century (WSS, GNW, Seven Years', FIW etc etc). They come from Zvezda's set (Zvezda #8058 Russian Artillery of Peter the Great) and even though each has three horses for every limber/wagon, I reckon that they would pass the test in terms of historical accuracy. The painting is somewhat generic, just for this reason (I couldn't paint the horses green, if that's you were thinking).
Anyhoo, I hope you like 'em.
Have a great Monday night everyone.
PS: Stay tuned for the WW1 project that will follow in due course. :-)
This is a rather quick and brief post as I'm preparing my gear for my long-awaited summer holidays.
Below you will see some photos of my newly painted Swedish Soldiers (from Zvezda's set ), as French Infantry for the French Indian War project I'm preparing (alongside with all the rest....)
White is a rather tricky colour to paint, but since there is Vallejo's Pale/Grey Wash 73.202, shading and highlighting is now feasible.
The whole lot.
I hope you like them - more French and English to follow, right after I return. :-)
Having to cope with Greece's warm weather, I came up with the ida of cooling myself by painting some figures for the Great Northern War. Some friends from the Wargames Club I'm in, suggested that we could use Volley and Bayonet rules (by F. Chadwick) for playing the battle of Poltava (among other battles of the war I suppose, but, that was the original plan).
