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Title: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: shandy on November 04, 2017, 08:23:15 AM

Hi,

cotton presses were imposing structures which make great objective for ACW skirmish games - after all, they were often destroyed by Union troops.

Naturally, I had to have one, so I looked for period images and started to make a quick sketch. Building the thing itself was not complicated. I also made some cotton bales out of green stuff - to my surprise, there are no models on the market!

Anyway, here's the finished cotton press:

(https://wargamingraft.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/finished1.jpg?w=1000&h=)

(https://wargamingraft.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/finished1a.jpg?w=700&h=)

For a more detailed report on how I built it and some more images, visit https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/building-a-cotton-press-in-15mm/ (https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/building-a-cotton-press-in-15mm/)

Cheers!

Title: Re: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: Malamute on November 04, 2017, 08:49:59 AM

Very clever. It looks great :)

Title: Re: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: von Lucky on November 04, 2017, 08:52:15 AM

Nice work - thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: marianas_gamer on November 04, 2017, 01:51:16 PM

Excellent work!! :-* :-* This is exactly the kind of build that makes me come to LAF. You identified a useful and unusual terrain feature for your games, researched it, built it, painted it well, and showed it us in a nice photo. I salute you!
LB

Title: Re: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: shandy on November 04, 2017, 02:05:13 PM

Thanks for the kind words  :)

Title: Re: Scratchbuilding a cotton press
Post by: Barry S on November 04, 2017, 11:18:05 PM

Really nice work  :-*