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Author Topic: Charlie's 15th century - Terrain boards, part two (Jan 5)  (Read 189558 times)

Offline MaleGriffin

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #780 on: November 10, 2024, 11:18:53 PM »
That's a lovely table with exceptional troops!
Hoc quoque transibit
Sanguinem sistit semper

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #781 on: November 11, 2024, 03:46:46 AM »
Fantastic photos!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #782 on: November 11, 2024, 06:56:41 AM »
Great work.

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #783 on: November 11, 2024, 09:13:10 AM »
Lovely  :-*

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #784 on: November 11, 2024, 06:24:29 PM »
Superb table !!!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #785 on: November 11, 2024, 06:48:42 PM »
That looks great  :)

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #786 on: November 14, 2024, 10:21:58 AM »
Oh wow the table looks fantastic, very jealous!  :D

The troops look great in action as well!

Offline Ninefingers

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Troops on the table! (Nov 10)
« Reply #787 on: November 14, 2024, 11:27:35 AM »
Amazing, if you squint those battle pics could be photos of a reenactment.

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Building terrain boards part one (Dec 4)
« Reply #788 on: December 04, 2024, 06:19:08 PM »
Thanks everyone, glad you enjoyed the pics! And thanks for the compliments on the table... but I've stated work on some NEW terrain boards to replace the ones you saw there!

https://fullharness.blogspot.com/

Building terrain boards - Part One

I've started work building a new set of terrain boards. My original ones, some of which you will have seen on the previous post's battle report, were a learning experience, and now I've got the space I want to have a better go at them. I was very happy with the flat, plain boards I made, but the 'feature' boards (some ditches and a few other things) didn't quite turn out how I wanted, but I've learned a lot from the process.

The new boards will have a heavier, sturdier construction, and be built better with some new tools to make the joins between them as seamless as possible, and to keep the dreading warping as close to non-existent as I can. I won't go into too much detail, but the new ones are on both thicker MDF (12mm rather than 9mm) and also thicker foam (25mm rather than 20mm).

Here's some quick pics of the first few I've done. As you can see, they are made of an MDF board with a wooden frame - the river boards will have foam of the same thickness inside the frame, with the rivers and such cut into them. The non-river boards will not need foam, and are turned upside down, so that the MDF is the top layer. The close-up pic of the two types of boards side by side should show exactly what I mean.





And here's the first river board with the foam glued down. The next stage will be to apply filler, to fill in all the gaps and sculpt the river banks.



I have used some 50mm square MDF bases to plan out the boards and try out different configurations. There will be four river boards (well, a small steam technically), which will also feature narrow pathways, and various other boards with different configurations of paths and roads, including a 'village board' of some sort. To avoid things looking too grid-like, the steam and paths don't all enter the boards at the half-way point, to allow for more realistic looking shapes. This does mean that not every steam or path edge will be able to join up with every other one, but will still allow for loads of different configurations, as the six examples below should demonstrate.









There will be other boards planned as well, including a wider river to be a more serious obstacle, with a bridge to cross it... but one thing at a time.

I don't know if I will log my progress making these boards in too much detail, but I will at least post some updates with pics as they happen! The next update (sometime over the next month or two hopefully) will see the first boards textured and painted.


Offline Breazer

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Building terrain boards part one (Dec 4)
« Reply #789 on: December 13, 2024, 10:44:38 PM »
I went through all of the pages until i saw a post of myself replying again. Its so good to see you are still going strong after all these years. Your collection must be huge by now and putting all of it on the table will look grand im sure. Really enjoying all the things youre making and the attention to detail it is getting!

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Building terrain boards part one (Dec 4)
« Reply #790 on: December 16, 2024, 07:10:34 PM »
I went through all of the pages until i saw a post of myself replying again. Its so good to see you are still going strong after all these years. Your collection must be huge by now and putting all of it on the table will look grand im sure. Really enjoying all the things youre making and the attention to detail it is getting!

Thanks, good to see you posting new stuff as well!

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Yet more French infantry (Dec 16)
« Reply #791 on: December 16, 2024, 07:13:31 PM »
https://fullharness.blogspot.com/

Yet more French infantry

The next unit is finished, and yes it's more French heavy infantry. This time I did something a bit different and gave them a nice blue livery!

The usual mix of figures. As well as Perry, Steel Fists and some of the private commissions, there is one sculpt from Eureka and a 3D print from Warsteel. Plastic, metal and resin all in one unit.












Offline HappyChappy439

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Yet more French infantry (Dec 16)
« Reply #792 on: December 17, 2024, 02:51:25 PM »
Great work! I really like how the blue livery has turned out! It really complements the red units

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Yet more French infantry (Dec 16)
« Reply #793 on: December 17, 2024, 04:56:20 PM »
Fantastic!

Offline Captain Harlock

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Yet more French infantry (Dec 16)
« Reply #794 on: December 18, 2024, 08:38:41 AM »
These look fantastic all mixed together!

 

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