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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: ancientsociety on 30 October 2017, 11:03:44 PM
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Recently, I began work on yet another board to help make the rounds at Operation Sting and Adepticon. Due to having several commission pieces that were never paid for, I found myself with a glut of Sarissa European buildings and wanted to do something slightly different, so I decided to make a board that could function well for "What If?" scenarios. This board will lean heavily towards a large British town of the 1930s-40s for Very British Civil War, Operation Seelowe, or even Occupied Channel Islands battles.
More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/10/vbcwseelowe-terrain-warehouse-power.html
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Good use of a fall apart toy, 👍
Look forward to seeing more as this project develops.
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Nice work on the warehouse. :-*
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Continuing on from yesterday's post on the industrial terrain, we move onto to the intact houses. As I mentioned previously, each of these houses was initially purchased for a commission piece that fell through and I decided to re-use them for the VBCW board. Each of these are the terrace houses (with the exception of the single story portion I scratchbuilt) from Sarissa Precision's Europe at War line and are really nice base models. They are super cheap (about $10-20), assemble well, have cardboard shutters/doors/moldings, and provide just the right amount of modularity to be able to mix and match separate sections if you wish. If I had ne complaint about them, it's that the "pins" the hold each level together fit very snugly - even when unpainted - so they have to be shaved down a bit to provide easy access to the interiors during play.
More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/10/vbcwseelowe-terrain-sarissa-terrace.html
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lW3bmcm8Qf8/Wfkjr64DMiI/AAAAAAAALbg/N0IhULD7arkBRttf9t7TTTWu6ACUPVwYACLcBGAs/s600/DSCN0456.jpg)
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Finishing out the collection of buildings for the VBCW/Seelowe board, I went with a more damaged look, using Sarissa's Destroyed Corner Pub, Terrace Shop, and two Terrace Houses. As with the other Sarissa buildings, to make them look a bit more realistic, I added cereal box shingle roofs and chimney stacks from metal tubing. I then mounted each on 2mm MDF with about 1.5" in the front for a sidewalk and about 4-6" in the back for a small yard. The pub had the most improvements though as I built out the sign and facade using MDF and basswood.
More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/11/vbcwseelowe-terrain-destroyed-terrace.html
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UmpPHUcVSXE/WfuqhbGBwNI/AAAAAAAALdE/aocm7RyIPiwPajt4KF1ePow3_skdIkbKQCLcBGAs/s600/DSCN0475a.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t1h3XZ6WU9o/WfuqfsPu3NI/AAAAAAAALc4/e2qkEwaTbm4Z13O2veBs_sR4Pn-D3SvPQCLcBGAs/s600/DSCN0471a.jpg)
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Very nice pieces, not sure about the pub name though.
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Great work.
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Fantastic work, love the big wrinkley tin shed 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Lovely work :-* :-* :-*
20mm or 28mm?
Nothing wrong with the pub name, very English!
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Lovely work :-* :-* :-*
20mm or 28mm?
Nothing wrong with the pub name, very English!
It's 28mm
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:o I cant believe I missed all of this from your blog. Good work.
And yes the Pubs name is excellent. lol
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Presumably you understand the distinction between the English and septic usage of 'fanny'. ;)
I think it's a good name. Seelowe would have been a fannying frolic anyway.
Lovely work on the barn/warehouse. I must look for one of those ERTL toys.
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Good work! I think the pub name is maybe more of a boat name myself, but not impossible; there are certainly far more crazy old names for pubs here.
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Excellent standard of work. The only thing I am not convinced on is the size of the roof tiles. If you are going to tart up the roof then I would go for a much smaller sized tile. In scale terms those tiles are about 2 feet across.