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Offline Rich H

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Finland Finland Finland....
« on: August 31, 2017, 07:22:02 AM »
Trial table for Bolt Action, trying to work out if it needs more.

I have antoehr set of fences and I plan on adding some craters on thie hills around the bunkers.

Too much, too little or about right?


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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2017, 08:22:11 AM »
Looking good, What you are already adding should be enough. Of course I would love to see a full trench line and frozen lake.  lol
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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2017, 08:40:38 AM »
Trenches are in the box still (they aren't very good) and the frozen lake is right of centre!!

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2017, 09:13:17 AM »
Trenches are in the box still (they aren't very good) and the frozen lake is right of centre!!

I*t's not that easy to differentiate frozen lake from a frozen field during winter time ;) Unless one is used to them, that is :D

I would add more trees, both the shot-up kind and normal ones (firs and pines with occasional birches too). If you have fields, then also ditches around them could be in place. Then hills and cliffsides, we live in quite a hilly country and where the WW2 fighting took place was no different.

I guess you are familiar with the official FDF ww2 photo site?

http://sa-kuva.fi

Do post more progress pics.

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2017, 09:20:57 AM »
I*t's not that easy to differentiate frozen lake from a frozen field during winter time ;) Unless one is used to them, that is :D
Or you drive your tank into the middle of it.

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2017, 09:27:15 AM »
Or you drive your tank into the middle of it.

True that.

Swamps are also good for that:



pic source: www.sa-kuva.fi

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2017, 09:41:33 AM »
Thanks.  Yes that is an extremely valuable resource pity it's so hard to find specific things.

I don't have many more trees and don't really feel like making more!  They were for the manerheim line hence the blasted look.  I'll see if I have any left form the original batch.

Did the fields have hedges or just ditches?

The main problem is it needs to be transported so I can't have huge pieces.  I've also got 2 weeks...  and I need to finish all the other stuff! 

I do have both Millions bunker and Poppius Bunker...  but neither are much use in Bolt Action!

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2017, 10:18:26 AM »
Happy to help sourcing pic material if needed.

This is for Continuation War, as you have the Sturmis, right? So no need for the concrete bunkers but you could have log "korsu" or two?

Rather ditches than hedges but frozen bushes work as well,

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2017, 10:33:10 AM »
It's Continuation War or Lapland War

The bunkers are just because I haev them, they are the 1930's style Maxim bunkers.

Frozen bushes might be easier, would provide a bit of scatter without being complicated to make - thanks!

I'll look at the Korsu see if I can make them easily.

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2017, 10:38:16 AM »
Just looked - a couple of Korsu might work well.  There are plenty of images - could you do me a favour and pick one that you would consider typical? 

Google translate doesn't do very well with Finnish!

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« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2017, 03:12:33 PM »
Here are images about building a chorus. showing the log and earth layers of the roof:





Finished ones and how they blend into their surroundings. The korsu in the second pic is according to the pic info, very close to the frontline:





Then one with a trench like corridor for protected entrance:



But of course all the above ones are more for the lodging purposes, so if you build one of those types, then remember to have the entrance towards the friendly table end :)

If you go for the fortified machine-gun korsu, then something like this could work:



Just add snow and it will be perfect.

I think if you opt to build one of any type, maybe you can place it on a side of a wooded hill, just with the log framed entrance showing? Should be quite easy to model that one.

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2017, 03:17:24 PM »
Thanks!!

That was my thought, just an entrace but I might stretch to a bit more of a lodging.

Can't really have the fortified korsu it would be too powerful in Bolt Action, though I chould build it just as a feature.

I've ordered 24 more pine trees with foliage (and snow) this time to add more solid woods around the edges, just hope they arrive in time!



« Last Edit: August 31, 2017, 03:19:50 PM by Rich H »

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2017, 11:21:25 AM »
Just for completeness

Fences and linear obstacles (piles of planks/logs):


Bunkers and ruins:


AT rocks (WIP):


Still to go:
Wet mud roads (Need checking see if I'm happy with them)
More tree bases (Bachmann 4"-6" snow covered firs)

I'm also pondering a Korsu protected shelter - Think buried log cabin/bunker (thanks to pocoloco)
Fainlly I could do with more scatter terrain, not really sure what to do though. 

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2017, 08:33:17 PM »
For scatter terrain, a big lump of rock or rocks (moved by the withdrawing ice during the Ice age), bomb/shell craters (if the area has seen combat already) barbed wire etc

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Re: Finland Finland Finland....
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2017, 08:43:11 PM »
I tried craters... I was unconvinced.... they aren't very good. ???

Rocks, I can do rocks....  Might lay it all out again, I've got a lot more trees now three times as many!

I might make it a ruined village in a forest clearing with bunkers on the outskirts.  That might be interesting to fight. 

 

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