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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: kingsmt on March 16, 2025, 08:19:12 PM
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These are some of the "scatter" pieces that I've done for my AWI project.
I'll post more later.
One question?
Should I keep them all in on thread or do several different threads?
Any questions about how I did these? Just ask.
Click on the pics to see them clearer.
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These look great! I think a lot about making markers like that but rarely do.
I?d keep adding them to this thread?easier to find a series of updates that way.
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Thanks. I'll keep it here then.
The bases are from a wood shapes bag I bought at Michaels. Circles, oval and oblongs make up the bage and I've used all three. They are very thin and have not warped. I paint both sides with cheap, Walmart, black spray paint.
The blankets are alcohol pads soaked in various washes.
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Very nice! I have dead 'uns, but no grave diggers.
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Two more scatter pieces. So far, I have another 10 or so finished and another dozen in the works.
In order to really see these clearly , you have to clik on the photos to sharpen them. They will enlarge and become clearer.
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Your scenes are truly superb, they give ideas... ;)
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Great ideas, really athmospheric!
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These pieces are very good. I only recognize a couple of the figures. Where are they from? Did you need to modify them? Thanks!
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Hi Pan, Most of the figures are from the Perry, Foundry and Minden lines. I did lots of repositioning and added things like shovels, blankets and animals to the scenes. I've got more photos coming out later on.
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Back with more scatter pieces. First up, is a Rebel lumber party. The Axmen commeth!
Next, we have workers unloading a wagon full of supplies. Whig militia or Loyalists? Good for either side.
And finally we see the "Spirit of '76" go marching by. It seems the drummer has his eye on the farmers daughter!
Clik the pix to enlarge. Much better
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These are just great. We also try to have those on our wargames table to add some sphere.
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These are great, I like how you have added some extra figures to what could have been a quite basic wagon, to give some real character.
In games do you use these as set dressing, or for more than that?
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Incredible vignettes! They will bring your games to life! Gorgeous!
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You have spoiled us with these new scenes. ;)
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Here are a couple more. I have several new pieces ready to be photographed.
Keep watching this space.
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Nice vignette pieces. Do I smell a field kitchen baking bread? ;)
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15's, Actually, Winter is coming!!
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This was really fun to make!!
The soldier with the wounded shoulder appears to be asking his buddy if perhaps he should get a second opinion!!
Especially, after seeing that the previous patient ended up dead under the blanket, missing his leg!
I had so much fun doing this I started another batch of pieces.
Clik on the pix for better viewing.
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Very evocative diorama, we don't often see the real affect of war in our games, these little pieces remind us of the real world out there! Excellently done Kinsgmnt :)
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Might have to bite off a rising bit of bile to do so, but you could go for a pile of severed limbs a few feet high - though that tale is really from the ACW so maybe not, the pile high enough to be seen through a window.
And, yes, we should never ignore the real gore and horror that is war. What we do is just a kids game gussied up. Nothing remotely like reality.
Oh, and another cool vignette.
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So, every book I have ever read concerning the AWI, has a passage that reads something like this.
"In the Spring, the rains came which turned the roads into quagmires"
Ye Olde Stuck in the Mud.
Click twice to see better pictures.
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Thank you again for your photos of the scenes which give new ideas to decorate our wargame tables. ;)
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Well done yet again.
Is it there and just hard to see or could the people and the horse's legs be a bit muddier? Every time I've dealt with something similar (though not horse drawn anything), I get muddied up to my knees - and on hands up to elbows.
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15's, It's not visible due to all the figures being turned inward, but they are covered in mud.
I find mud really hard to portray and it takes me forever to get it to my satisfaction.
It has to look churned up and have different colors swirling.
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Winter has come to New Jersey. Moving the ammunition to Trenton through the storm.
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Continental Artillery moves into position at Trenton.
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More good stuff.
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A couple of new pieces.
The first piece shows a widow and her son behind the burial detail wagon.
The second was just a goof off. A British soldier has been assigned Guard Duty, with full pack, for attempting to open one of the rum caskets!! Punishment detail!
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Re the widow: poignant
Re the guard duty: I foresee an officer with some 'splainin' to do when he finds the guard, quite literally, dead drunk the next morning. lol
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The more photos you post of your scenes, the more I want to make them! ;)
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I love these little scenes!
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nice job - lots of character :)