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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Bullshott on March 24, 2020, 12:26:25 AM
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Figure painting for my polar exploration project is well underway and covered by another thread, here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95074.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95074.0)
However, I will need some terrain for this project. With the UK now being in a state of lockdown and self isolation, this seems to be an ideal opportunity to attempt to complete something to fill that gap.
As a feature for games, and in order to break up bleak terrain essentially comprising variants of snow, ice and rocks, I have decided to build a polar camp. This will comprise an hut (suitable for an Antarctic winter camp, an Arctic trapper's/miner's hut or as part of a larger camp), together with some appropriate pieces of scatter terrain. Inspired by the current state of the UK, the camp will be called Isolation Point.
My main inspirations are:
Trappers huts at Camp Mansfield in Kongsfjorden on the northwest of Svalbard:
(https://www.aqua-firma.com/contentFiles/image/2018/01/camp-mansfield-north-spitsbergen-tallship-sailing-photography-voyage-svalbard-arctic-polar-travel-holiday-vacation-history-arjan-bronkhorst.jpg)
Swedish South Polar Expedition on Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, 1902:
(http://www.antarctic-circle.org/hut.12.jpg)
Shackleton's hut from the British Nimrod Expedition, 1909:
(https://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/01/29/04d1527c-0491-4ffd-997b-b8d460302036/resize/620x465/ad482cd3b089cc1d825e5fa1ee4f7969/nzaht-shackletons-hut-cape-royds-photo-alasdair-turner-photography-web.jpg)
I still have to work over this period of lockdown, but hopefully I should still be able to get this project done (if I can avoid distractions).
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Svalbard inspiration by a factor of 36 - very precisely worked out, too, in about a nano-second of consideration. lol
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I love that Camp Mansfield building; the weathered wood is lovely. :D
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These might be a little bright for you but this is what I did for my Ice Station Zebra game.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94670.165
The buildings were mostly from the Stalagluft range by Ebob, with the odd Sarrissa, converted and re-purposed.
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These might be a little bright for you but this is what I did for my Ice Station Zebra game.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94670.165
The buildings were mostly from the Stalagluft range by Ebob, with the odd Sarrissa, converted and re-purposed.
That was a good game.
I've still got the PDFs for the Ebob POW camp. Some of the huts are perfect for an arctic base - they just need to be given snow covered roofs. However, immediately I want to build a single base camp hut as a modelling challenge :)
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As the basis of my expedition hut, I'm using the Warbases American farmhouse with an additional lean-to added to form the entrance. The building is a cheap, robust, featureless 'blank' of the right proportions that I can overlay to get the desired effect.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/164-310320181553-45137264.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/164-310320181553-45138577.jpeg)
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Good way to approach it. Those MDF "blanks" provide an excellent skeleton to build on.