Scratchbuilding a cotton press

[shandy]

Hi,

cotton presses were imposing structures which make great objective for ACW skirmish games - after all, they were often destroyed by Union troops.

Naturally, I had to have one, so I looked for period images and started to make a quick sketch. Building the thing itself was not complicated. I also made some cotton bales out of green stuff - to my surprise, there are no models on the market!

Anyway, here's the finished cotton press:





For a more detailed report on how I built it and some more images, visit https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/building-a-cotton-press-in-15mm/

Cheers!

[Malamute]

Very clever. It looks great

[von Lucky]

Nice work - thanks for sharing.

[marianas_gamer]

Excellent work!! This is exactly the kind of build that makes me come to LAF. You identified a useful and unusual terrain feature for your games, researched it, built it, painted it well, and showed it us in a nice photo. I salute you!
LB

[shandy]

Thanks for the kind words  

[Barry S]

Really nice work