PolishGI’s Working Thread (WWII & Vietnam)

[redleg]

That's beautiful terrain Polish! I love the corn fields and the train tracks!

[7.62]

Great stuff. I really must try and do at least one new building/terrain each Month.

[PolishGI]

That's beautiful terrain Polish! I love the corn fields and the train tracks!

Great stuff. I really must try and do at least one new building/terrain each Month.

Thank you guys. I took quite a hit a few years ago and now slowly reaching my stride again. I hope to continue creating stuff and moving forward.

I have some terrain ideas I want to explore/create… but I also want to poke around with NW and Western Europe buildings and towns. Chateaus perhaps… I have a few ideas from pics I’ve seen with Western Europe to include telephone lines perhaps? Whereby I can 3d print a cup and sink that into the ground leading up to a village/town. And then 3d print the telephone poles that fit into those cups so they are upright. Maybe this is more for visuals/staging… but might be fun when those poles gets damaged, that you can remove the telephone pole from the cup (sunk into the ground/foam) and lay it on the ground where it fell. Adds to the atmosphere… idk

I like leaving markers for artillery hits so you can look back on a scenario and see what areas were peppered and which were not. In that line of thinking… I have paper buildings that stand upright and then you can pull out up/off and it shows a destroyed building underneath. That I promptly place a smoke marker in to denote its on fire. So maybe adding telephone lines would be in the same arena? Maybe its too much… but these are ideas one has… lol

[7.62]

"I also want to poke around with NW and Western Europe buildings and towns. Chateaus perhaps… I have a few ideas from pics I’ve seen"

OK so I have decided that January's project will be to build myself a new little centre piece to become the new Parliament building for the Imagi-Nation of Karma. I have nowhere for a 2'x2' board at the moment let alone a war game table to put it on but it should be interesting on a book shelf for now.
The inspiration is a little shack in the mountains I go to every February for a soak in the hot springs and a plate of poutine.

https://images.canusa.de/img/ski/canadi ... x0.q50.jpg.

[PolishGI]

"I also want to poke around with NW and Western Europe buildings and towns. Chateaus perhaps… I have a few ideas from pics I’ve seen"

OK so I have decided that January's project will be to build myself a new little centre piece to become the new Parliament building for the Imagi-Nation of Karma. I have nowhere for a 2'x2' board at the moment let alone a war game table to put it on but it should be interesting on a book shelf for now.
The inspiration is a little shack in the mountains I go to every February for a soak in the hot springs and a plate of poutine.

https://images.canusa.de/img/ski/canadi ... x0.q50.jpg.

Nice.

Are you kidding me? That is a shack? lol

[foxbat]

Nice terrain.
Well, crossfire putting a MG42 in each of these buildings will certainly spoil somebody's day. Now, if you even add mines...

[PolishGI]

Time for an update.

I have been spending time reworking/updating some hexes I have from way back when. What is salvageable or what is not… basically, fixing, repairing or updating hexes to what I would do today so that there is some continuity among the hexes. Not me looking at various hexes and thinking… oh, that is 2000 era… 2010 era… 2015 era… and that is current… Whatever I could not fix, I tossed. I also spent time putting like-hexes together in my storage containers.

I found some additional 3d models I need to print so I will see what those look like and show for show and tell day.

Along my quest, just like anyone else, my brother sent me a bunch of items that he no longer needs since he left 1/285th and went to a larger scale. These include British Cromwells, Challengers and a bunch of Italian stuff from North Africa. Instead of looking at them in their containers… I wanted to eliminate the inventory and base/paint/decal them. Now they are in their respective storage containers with the general population.

The British














These are the 3d printed T-34s I made for Das Reich and Kursk. I don’t think they came out too badly. Not terribly excited about how the paint scheme came out but they will work. Still odd putting the largest cross I could find on the turret of a T-34.

[PolishGI]

The Italians WIP. I did not put a marking on every individual vehicle. I was cruising through my books and the internet only to find that the Italians were not as militant with unit/vehicle markings as the Germans were… so I added decals on a hit or miss basis.



























And why with a sandy hex ground…

[redleg]

Awesome work, Polish! Totally blown away by your Italians - they look fantastical!

[chrisswim]

GI, that is a lot of awesome. Great work.
Great looking attack.

[Hoth_902]

Polish, nice looking pieces.

[PolishGI]

Thank you redleg!

Thank you Chris!

Thanks hoth!

[PolishGI]

It appears I am working on a southern Russia village these days… sizeable undertaking with scaling 3d models, printing, cleaning up, post processing and then placing onto the hexes and going from there… I found some wooden fences that will work as well…

I am also doing the same thing on the western European front… buildings are just about there… and the brick/stone walls are coming along nicely…

But here we go… WIP shots…

[chrisswim]

GI, love the sand. Looks like some of those Italian vehicles are about to get stuck.
Appreciate your painting sequence for the village. Turning out nicely.

[pmskaar]

Great work on the Italian tanks and armored cars as well as the Russian/Ukrainian style buildings, Polish GI! Have you made any of the picket style fences you see in Russia and the Ukraine?