Zona Britaniya

[CookAndrewB]

Better than fine. That is great work. I doubt I could accomplish that in 2 hours of painting. I think I'm a slow painter and the end result hardly matches the time I put into it

What parts went into the making?

[Spinal Tap]

Better than fine. That is great work. I doubt I could accomplish that in 2 hours of painting. I think I'm a slow painter and the end result hardly matches the time I put into it

What parts went into the making?

I'm sure you would, the greatcoat, trousers and boots and leather straps were a single coat of GW Contrast paint, then painted the guns black and heads in their colours.

All the while the 3 not being painted were sat with my wife's hairdryer blowing warm air at them.

Once the bits were done I gave another coat of contrast paint to the legs, boots and straps and slapped some white on the bases.

Then a quick off white drybrush.

All 4 are Warlord German winter bodies and arms(free with Wargames Illustrated a couple of months ago I believe) with (from left to right) heads from Anvil Industries, Atlantic Wargames Les Grognard, Anvil again and Atlantic Raumjaeger).


And I've seen your work here and elsewhere so I know how good your stuff is.

[Spinal Tap]

Wanted some cheap fencing for the military base, considered building a fixed piece but really wanted modular to make storage easier.

Again very cheap build made from remains of MDF sprues, barbecue skewers and plasterers scrim tape; I drilled holes for the skewers to be glued into and super glued the tape to them once dry.

Put shortened poles and cut away tape on a couple of pieces so I can add breaches to the defence when I need.

Gates are just shorter pieces with card glued on.

Quick spray with black auto primer, coat of grey and a dry brush of silver and one of bronze.

Very pleased with them.


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[CookAndrewB]

That is a great bulk set of fences. What do you use to fix the tape to the fence poles? Super glue, PVA... ? I've never played with this material, though I've recently heard its praises sung. Gotta be better than granny grating for this kind of application.

[Spinal Tap]

That is a great bulk set of fences. What do you use to fix the tape to the fence poles? Super glue, PVA... ? I've never played with this material, though I've recently heard its praises sung. Gotta be better than granny grating for this kind of application.

I folded the tape double as it has a greasy self adhesive on one side then used super glue to attach.

Tried PVA but it wouldn't stick to the residue on the tape.

Might be worth cleaning the tape in some way before gluing to use PVA.


It's a great material and the fences were fast to make. Will be doing some shorter ones with wooden posts for farm fields in fantasy.

[Dentatus]

Inexpensive, easy to build, look great, multi-use... that's just about perfect.

[Sinewgrab]

I never thought to use seam tape...brilliant!

[Spinal Tap]

I've spent some time today laying out the terrain and miniatures I've made/painted then photographing it.

Got plenty to play on for now and will be adding other pieces, but more slowly from now on.


If you want to see more click through to Flickr, there's a few more pics on there.

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[Grumpy Gnome]

Bravo sir, bravo! I love it.

[clanmac]

Very cool looking board

[Spinal Tap]

Thank you gentlemen.

[CookAndrewB]

Well, that came together nicely.

Hadn't seen some of those critters before. Where are the Jellyfish from?

[Spinal Tap]

Cheers.

I think all the zone hostiles but the Mantic troopers and jellyfish have been included before.

The jellyfish are from a while back, I made them for another game from some cheap toys. I was interested to see if they fit into the vibe for Zona Britaniya so put them in the picture - don't think they work for this game though.

Here's a couple of pics:

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[Dentatus]

Excellent, especially the hostiles.
Altho that base needs some solid walls to blunt the freezing wind. *brrrr*

[Spinal Tap]

Excellent, especially the hostiles.
Altho that base needs some solid walls to blunt the freezing wind. *brrrr*

Solid walls are something I will  be looking at in the future but not just yet.