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Offline Bullshott

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Figure painting for my polar exploration project is well underway and covered by another thread, here:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=95074.0

However, I will need some terrain for this project. With the UK now being in a state of lockdown and self isolation, this seems to be an ideal opportunity to attempt to complete something to fill that gap.

As a feature for games, and in order to break up bleak terrain essentially comprising variants of snow, ice and rocks, I have decided to build a polar camp. This will comprise an hut (suitable for an Antarctic winter camp, an Arctic trapper's/miner's hut or as part of a larger camp), together with some appropriate pieces of scatter terrain. Inspired by the current state of the UK, the camp will be called Isolation Point.

My main inspirations are:

Trappers huts at Camp Mansfield in Kongsfjorden on the northwest of Svalbard:


Swedish South Polar Expedition on Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, 1902:


Shackleton's hut from the British Nimrod Expedition, 1909:


I still have to work over this period of lockdown, but hopefully I should still be able to get this project done (if I can avoid distractions).
Sir Henry Bullshott, Keeper of Ancient Knowledge

Offline FifteensAway

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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2020, 03:56:24 AM »
Svalbard inspiration by a factor of 36 - very precisely worked out, too, in about a nano-second of consideration.   lol

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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2020, 05:51:06 AM »
I love that Camp Mansfield building; the weathered wood is lovely. :D

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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2020, 09:31:51 AM »
These might be a little bright for you but this is what I did for my Ice Station Zebra game.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94670.165

The buildings were mostly from the Stalagluft range by Ebob, with the odd Sarrissa, converted and re-purposed. 

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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2020, 06:10:05 PM »
These might be a little bright for you but this is what I did for my Ice Station Zebra game.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94670.165

The buildings were mostly from the Stalagluft range by Ebob, with the odd Sarrissa, converted and re-purposed.

That was a good game.

I've still got the PDFs for the Ebob POW camp. Some of the huts are perfect for an arctic base - they just need to be given snow covered roofs. However, immediately I want to build a single base camp hut as a modelling challenge :)

Offline Bullshott

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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2020, 06:26:47 PM »
As the basis of my expedition hut, I'm using the Warbases American farmhouse with an additional lean-to added to form the entrance. The building is a cheap, robust, featureless 'blank' of the right proportions that I can overlay to get the desired effect.






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Re: Isolation Point - a build project for polar exploration games
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2020, 06:07:19 AM »
Good way to approach it. Those MDF "blanks" provide an excellent skeleton to build on.