Show us your terrain!

[Waddell]

That is one sharp looking piece of terrain! Great work!

[Paul B]

Beautiful!!!

[ferret701]

Bez, that looks amazing. I see that you are in Sterling -- I'm next door in Great Falls. What group do you play with?

Pat Callahan
microarmormayhem.com

[7.62]

photos of the town of Demouville.

Great looking town.

[BattlerBritain]

Bez, great terrain

It looks like mostly TC terrain?

I'd like to see the AAR as well: my great-uncle was in the 3rd Mons. Demouville? so that'd be Goodwood? 'The Great Cavalry charge' he called it

[cehelgi]

BEAUTIFUL TERRAIN !!

[Bezmozgu7]

Thanks everyone for your feedback! Ben and I had a lot of fun setting up the board and expect the game to be even better. I anticipate Roger will work up another AAR, which I'll post on the forum. In response to some of your questions:

Cobble Roads/Square -- made from a molded sheet styrene section I picked up from a dealer at an HMGS convention about four years ago. Unfortunately I've used up what I bought and can't recall the name of the company. I've looked for him the last few cons I've attended but he has not been present. I cut the sections to width and length with an Xacto knife, sprayed them with a base grey, applied a dark wash followed by lighter grey dry-brushing, and finished them off with a DullCote spray.

Building Mix -- The building mix is about 50% TC, 35% GHQ (most of the three-story buildings), 15% Najewitz Modelblau (the church most prominently) from when they were still doing 6mm (I suspect Najewitz sold the molds to Levin), and a few TB on the outskirts of town.

Demouville -- yes, Operation Goodwood. The 3rd Mons were part of the 159th Bde.

Club -- Pat, we have a small informal group we call the Dulles Wargaming Club, comprising three regular attendees and half a dozen or so others who join us when they can. We play the games either at one of our homes or occasionally at Huzzah Hobbies in Ashburn. If anyone in the NVA/WDC area is interested in joining us for one of our games, send me a message. Ben and I will be running a couple of 6mm WWII games at Cold Wars next weekend: Friday (6 Mar) at 1400 and Saturday (7 Mar) at 1000.

Cheers,

Bez

[Waddell]

For the cobblestone roads try Woodland Scenic. They make a wide variety of model railroading supplies. Also look at Evergreen Scale Models. They make plastic sheets for scratch building model railroad setups and have a variety of molded sheets in a wide variety of scales. Many hobby shops carry these and nearly all model railroading shops have them as well.

[pmskaar]

Hey Bez

That really looks great. I especially love your buildings but it all blends together wonderfully.

I see you use GHQ and Timecast buildings quite a bit. What is the other brand you mentioned? TB? What does that stand for?
I have a bunch of the GHQ and some Timecast buildings myself along with some old Leva and a few others as well. Yours look really great painted up and the extra detail is excellent.

Pete

[Benlacy]

Hey Bez

What is the other brand you mentioned? TB? What does that stand for?


Pete

Pete...TB is short for Total Battle. A few of the buildings came from them. ben

[pmskaar]

Hi Ben

Thanks very much for the info. I will check them out.

Pete

[BattlerBritain]

TC also do cobbled road sections which are similar I think.

[ZAJACMWZ]

Hi all! Thought I'd post a couple pics on a terrain set I made for the bocage of Normandy. I used 3" wooden hexes - as opposed to the Terrain Maker 4" styrofoam hex. My figures are based either as 3/4" or 1/2" square bases so the 3" hex size allows for multiple units per hex while reducing table size.

The round green balls are meant to simulate orchard trees - easy to move if miniatures get in the way. The woods outlines are done on the hex, with small trees placed - also easy to move. The haystacks was an idea borrowed from Troy at Ritterkrieg - simulating grain fields without needing a height for the grain. Buildings are mainly Timecast.





Let me know what you think

Matt

[ZAJACMWZ]

Here's another project - an Eastern European board. Also used 3" wooden hexes - 3mm deep with the streams a .08mm base with shaped 3mm sections for the banks. I really like the way the stream turned out.

Woods are done the same as the bocage board, but I used small pine trees to show a more northern region. The green balls are again orchard trees - I don't really like them and am looking for another solution - any recommendations?



Thanks again,
Matt

[Extra Crispy]

For orchards have you thought about strips of trees? The orderly arrangement says "orchard" but with strips you can remove one or more to make room for the minis. Paint the orchard hex with green stripes to show where the strips go. This way you cna upgrade to good trees.