Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Snake Rail Fencing

 


As I am getting close to having enough 40mm AWI painted for a game, I decided it was time I started on some scenery.  I need a fair amount of snake-rail fencing to give the battlefield that "american" look and so bought a few packs of wooden dowels from Amazon and set to work on designing some fences.

The above is my first test piece shown with a 40mm Continental.

After that, I cracked on and have finished just under 12 feet of fencing.



Now (once it stops raining) I need to prime, paint and then finish the bases.

Friday, March 8, 2024

40mm AWI Continentals

 


12 more AWI Continental infantry finished.  These have been sitting on the painting table nearly done since the start of the New YEar.

24 more to finish off in white facings which will hopefully get done soon.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Core Space Starter set Crews, etc

 

Finished off some Core Space starter set bits yesterday.

The Purge (alien robots) and the Purge reinforcements pack


 

The two starter set crews and 3 NPCs

 


All primed grey, heavily dry-brushed white and then mostly painted with washes.

Two more crews to paint next and then I'm ready for a 4 player game.


Monday, March 4, 2024

Sample City Wall

 Not feeling that great today - cold/virus so doodled away on Sketchup and laser cut some bits to produce a sample piece of city wall.  

I've decided to put 2" of city wall on each side of the bastions to make it easier to get the join right, so this 6" section will sit between 2 bastions.  

Also decided it is better to have the pieces free standing rather than on a hex tile.  I'll leave the ravelins as they are (probably) but build the rest to sit on the ditch, etc hex tiles rather than being built onto them.




 

Ravelin Finished

 

Finished the protoype Ravelin which I think came out okay. Need to adjust a couple of things.
 
I have gone for a slope at the back but might replace that with some steps at some point.
 
Now just need to make 2 more, 3 bastions, 2 Demi-Lunes, 4 city walls, a citadel and a load of houses and I am done!
 
 



Thursday, February 29, 2024

More Ravelin(ing)

 

Spent some time today working out how to measure the walls on the 3d model and reproduce them as flat objects I could laser cut.

All the walls now cut and rested on the model to try it out.
I have also cut some pillar supports for inside to support each floor.

Next up is gluing it together and then experimenting with texturing with tissue as I've seen used but never tried myself....




 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Playing with Ravelins

 I made a start of designing the Ravelins for the Siege of Dendermonde project quite a while ago but got stuck trying to visualise exactly how they were going to fit together, how the walls would work and exactly what internal supports I would need.

So, I cut some samples pieces this morning.  The base out of 4mm MDF and the floors and structure out of 3mm MDF.



The individual pieces are shown above.  The base is designed to fit in with my hex terrain system.



These pictures show the initial assembly and how the the pieces fit together.  I glued the wooden pieces together and used bits of card to support them.

Then I cut some very rough pieces of card to get a feel for how it would look with walls.



The walls are very rough and I need to work out the joining angles before designing them - they will then be cut from 2mm MDF.

The back of the ravelin with have a set of 3d printed stairs to the top platform.

The next picture shows some British troops manning the Ravelin while Austrian grenadiers march along the outside ridge to get to a bridge to the Glacis.




The final picture shows how the base tile will fit in with the hex terrain.  In the finished piece it will be surrounded by ditch tiles, which will be brown and then there will be other ditch tiles that fit over them showing the flooded ditch.