Hello all,
I was the always the sort who admired those who could scratchbuild beautiful terrain from a distance never venturing to do it myself, prefering instead to buy ready made pieces and simply paint them.
I have no idea what sort of bug bit me but these past 10 days or so I got it into my head to build on my own the bits of terrain I would need for my 10mm AWI project and in particular the battle of Bunker hill.
I began with the three fleches running at a 90 angle from the north end of the breastworks to the south end of the rail fences. I know that the existence of the fleches is debatable but I decided to go ahead and portray them in the battle.
Here was my first attempt using aluminum foil to give some body/height to the works on top of which I could stick the toothpicks. You can see the other two starting to take form in the background.
And a pic of all three fleches finished:
With the fleches done (for better or worse
) I started on the breastwork which ran from the north end of the redoubt.
blue foam glued on the base and crudely shaped with an xacto knife.
and one where it has progressed a bit more:
I will probably finish the breastwork by tonight or tomorrow at the latest and then the big challenge i.e the redoubt itself awaits.