VBCW/Op Seelowe Board (11/2 - Destroyed Buildings)

[ancientsociety]

Recently, I began work on yet another board to help make the rounds at Operation Sting and Adepticon. Due to having several commission pieces that were never paid for, I found myself with a glut of Sarissa European buildings and wanted to do something slightly different, so I decided to make a board that could function well for "What If?" scenarios. This board will lean heavily towards a large British town of the 1930s-40s for Very British Civil War, Operation Seelowe, or even Occupied Channel Islands battles.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/10/vbcwseelowe-terrain-warehouse-power.html

[SABOT]

Good use of a fall apart toy, 👍

Look forward to seeing more as this project develops.

[Hu Rhu]

Nice work on the warehouse. 

[ancientsociety]

Continuing on from yesterday's post on the industrial terrain, we move onto to the intact houses. As I mentioned previously, each of these houses was initially purchased for a commission piece that fell through and I decided to re-use them for the VBCW board. Each of these are the terrace houses (with the exception of the single story portion I scratchbuilt) from Sarissa Precision's Europe at War line and are really nice base models. They are super cheap (about $10-20), assemble well, have cardboard shutters/doors/moldings, and provide just the right amount of modularity to be able to mix and match separate sections if you wish. If I had ne complaint about them, it's that the "pins" the hold each level together fit very snugly - even when unpainted - so they have to be shaved down a bit to provide easy access to the interiors during play.


More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/10/vbcwseelowe-terrain-sarissa-terrace.html

[ancientsociety]

Finishing out the collection of buildings for the VBCW/Seelowe board, I went with a more damaged look, using Sarissa's Destroyed Corner Pub, Terrace Shop, and two Terrace Houses. As with the other Sarissa buildings, to make them look a bit more realistic, I added cereal box shingle roofs and chimney stacks from metal tubing. I then mounted each on 2mm MDF with about 1.5" in the front for a sidewalk and about 4-6" in the back for a small yard. The pub had the most improvements though as I built out the sign and facade using MDF and basswood.

More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/11/vbcwseelowe-terrain-destroyed-terrace.html

[von Lucky]

Very nice pieces, not sure about the pub name though.

[SABOT]

Great work.

[aircav]

Fantastic work, love the big wrinkley tin shed 

[gamer Mac]

Lovely work
20mm or 28mm?
Nothing wrong with the pub name, very English!

[ancientsociety]

Lovely work
20mm or 28mm?
Nothing wrong with the pub name, very English!

It's 28mm

[commissarmoody]

  I cant believe I missed all of this from your blog. Good work.
And yes the Pubs name is excellent. 

[carlos marighela]

Presumably you understand the distinction between the English and septic usage of 'fanny'. 

I think it's a good name. Seelowe would have been a fannying frolic anyway.

Lovely work on the barn/warehouse. I must look for one of those ERTL toys.

[Arlequín]

Good work! I think the pub name is maybe more of a boat name myself, but not impossible; there are certainly far more crazy old names for pubs here.

[jon_1066]

Excellent standard of work.  The only thing I am not convinced on is the size of the roof tiles.  If you are going to tart up the roof then I would go for a much smaller sized tile.  In scale terms those tiles are about 2 feet across.