Hello & Beginnings of a Normandy board for 15mm CoC

[Calimero]

Very nice!

That should be Café du Normand or Café de Normandie...

[mcmatt]

Ah yes - thanks. Good thing you said that before I painted it

[mcmatt]

The Flames of War Caen Church kit along with some home made low rock walls, fencing, bush, and two rows of orchards. I'll stick apples on the orchard trees too I think. Slow progress as I've been individually basing a ton of FoW 15mm figures for my German and US platoons. The church is a pretty nice kit and the buildings have been the biggest time sink.

Oh, and the boards are new - MDF with a woodland scenics vinal flocked matt stuck to it then cut to size (stuff comes in a big roll). Going to paint the edges of the board and potentially magnetize it all. Bu tit's pretty solid so I'll see if it budges much during the course of a game.



I've ordered some new 15mm buildings from Ironclad Miniatures. Excited to get them in the mail and start some troop painting!

[Colbourne66]

Looks good!  Chain of Command is a great set of rules - although I prefer playing in 28mm.

I am also beginning to dabble in Blanchitsu 40K as well!

[mcmatt]

Nice! There are a few great facebook groups for that. I'm _inq28_ on instagram if you want to link up.

Back on topic - 15mm was the cheaper option (turns out nothing is cheap in wargaming... Surprise! When will I learn?) I'd also read a lot of positive opinions on CoC in 15mm. Any particular reason you prefer 28? I'm having so much fun with the WW2 stuff I want to try some of the perry plastics in 28mm next. Your Germans are looking good by the way!

[Colbourne66]

OK I'll have to look up some of the Facebook groups... and i think I may have seen your instagram account.

As for why I prefer 28mm for CoC...not really sure.  I came to historical wargaming through 15/18mm Napoleonics, and that scale seemed right for representing battalions and brigade level games.  28mm to me seems to fit WW2 skirmish games like CoC better, although thats just a personal taste... although I am increasingly tempted to do 28mm Napoleonics as well....

cheers

[cstoesen]

This is really nice work.  Thanks for sharing.

[mcmatt]

Hey all, a bit of a resurrection here. The 8th edition of [name redacted by the Inquisition] got in the way of this project but I've been back on it and slowly chipping away.

Let's start with the unsexy stuff - more hedgerows. Sculpted from super sculpey - textured, then painted up. From here it gets sewing pins drilled in and clump foliage added on.


Some haystacks - sculpted, flocked, painted. You can also see the raw sculpted hedgerow here.



And some fun stuff - US armored rifle platoon.


I'm back on some steady progress though so should be updating more frequently. Crits and comments always appreciated.

It'd be great if someone could point me in the direction of a good resource for rank/unit/nationality insignia too. Not going to go nuts on 15mm models but it'd be great to have some of it represented on the squads. Cheers!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very good.

What did you flock your haystacks with?

[BillK]

Really liking this thread-log. Hope to see more.
The wheatfield is very nice and the haystacks quite effective and simple.

[Ballardian]

 Great stuff, I also love the haystacks & plan on stealing the idea to size up for 28mm

[mcmatt]

Cheers guys! Hoping to keep the log going now

@Ultravanillasmurf – It's just regular grass flock. I think it is GW brand. PVA'd onto the sculpey directly. Primed brown then drybrushed with a few different colors. The final is dark flesh from Vallejo.

@Ballardian – Steal away! Side note - what's the origin of your user name?