Well, OK, perhaps more accurately stated,....tents created from packaging of chocolate.
In this case, Toblerone Chocolate as it comes in quite the handy triangular box. Great for easy-to-make card tents!
With some paint and a terrain work on the base they should look fine on the tabletop.
I am thinking for my 20mm WW1 Palestine project. The sizing should be about right.
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Wurttemberg Light Infantry
The big game at this year's Enfilade Convention this month is the Battle of Eggmuhl 1809 in which Wurttemberg provided a division of troops including light infantry.
While having this information in the back of my brain having recently looked upon the OOB for the game, I came across my stash of Prussian Jagers collected from the many plastic Perry Prussian Napoleonic infantry boxes I purchased.
While not perfect for the Wurttemberg uniform and equipment, I am a not precise "rivet counter" so I could employ them with the following changes:
- scrape off the cuff flaps
- added fur backpacks [differing from the Prussian types]
- used Austrian shakos after scraping off all the Austrian details and painting on the gold bits
- of course applying the appropriate uniform colours.
I used a different arm - modified French in this case - to have an NCO pointing as a focal point for variation rather than the whole unit in a rather unique, and rather unalterable pose .
The advantage of plastics is the "scape-off or glue-on" ease.
While having this information in the back of my brain having recently looked upon the OOB for the game, I came across my stash of Prussian Jagers collected from the many plastic Perry Prussian Napoleonic infantry boxes I purchased.
While not perfect for the Wurttemberg uniform and equipment, I am a not precise "rivet counter" so I could employ them with the following changes:
- scrape off the cuff flaps
- added fur backpacks [differing from the Prussian types]
- used Austrian shakos after scraping off all the Austrian details and painting on the gold bits
- of course applying the appropriate uniform colours.
I used a different arm - modified French in this case - to have an NCO pointing as a focal point for variation rather than the whole unit in a rather unique, and rather unalterable pose .
The advantage of plastics is the "scape-off or glue-on" ease.
Monday, 1 May 2017
"Nagashino Fences"
I wanted some fences as a terrain feature for my Samurai games and thought the pole fencing represented as per the famous battle will look good.
Rather than a bamboo skewer construction, I thought styrene rods would glue together strong enough to allow me to wind sewing thread around each of the cross beams. I found some likely coloured thread within the household sewing kit so I would not need to colour it. By gluing on the upturned leftover sprues (from all of my other 'plastics' ) , I could achieve a regular spacing with the upright poles firmly attached to the base with the length of the sprue and not individual poles, thus ensuring a stronger bond when glued to the base cardboard.
The white portion is yet unpainted as it will form part of the basing. |
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