28mm Battlefield Clutter

[Eclaireur]

I'd like to tap into the hive mind for some tips to get a more 'lived in' looking battlefield. I've got some farm animals, piles of stores like barrels or crates, telegraph poles, road signs and one or two other things. I recently found tucked in the Warlord pages for the French army some nice commercial vehicles - like trucks and a coach that look very useful. Yet still I yearn for more. Some stuff seems to be around designed for 1/48 diorama building or O Gauge railways but is it right, scale wise? does it work?
So the stuff I'm thinking of...
- transport such as bicycles, motorbikes, hand carts or cars
- agricultural items that would be lying about the farmyard from ploughs to wheelbarrows or tractors to implements like rakes or scythes
- urban stuff; street lamps, trash cans, street traders' handcarts, phone and post boxes (for 1944 Italy or France).

Any thoughts gratefully received ...
EC

[fred]

They all sound great.

I'd maybe add in some small more natural items, like small clumps of bushes, uneven ground, areas of overgrown weeds, etc.

Gardens, or even parts of gardens work well.

[levied troop]

Allotments - with plenty of sheds
Hen houses
Road Signs
Telegraph poles - there's a very distinctive French concrete design that someone does in MDF
Discarded military stores - most armies are very wasteful, jerry cans, crates, ammo boxes (all empty) can be liberally strewn.
Flower planters, Statues and War Memorials.
Pissoirs!

I find 1/48th generally works well but O gauge (1/43rd) is too large - however some kits/models can be a bit variable in scale so its always worth trying to test a figure up against a piece.

[Poiter50]

Try Warbases and TTCombat for nice 28mm clutter but be careful not to get the more modern stuff.

[Eclaireur]

Poitier50 - thanks for those, can't say I've heard of either of those manufacturers before and there's some great stuff in the line of carts, handcarts, sheds and the like. Stand by for PayPal!

Levied - do you have any particular manufacturers you rely on for these bits?

EC