Author Topic: “The scrap in Teutoburg thicket!” - "Malo mori quam foedari” (Read 14091 times)

flatpack · « **Reply #45 on:** July 20, 2020, 08:51:27 PM »

Stone the crows, they look good.

Digits · « **Reply #46 on:** July 20, 2020, 10:38:00 PM »

Cheers Bob.

Digits · « **Reply #47 on:** July 21, 2020, 05:48:54 PM »

I have grassed the trees.

So this is the sum total of what I have to date.....not bad for a week.

It’s enough to play a small game of Fist Full of Pilums .....but it doesn’t float my boat yet

I’m going to have to bite the bullet and invest in a lot more trees I think. As you can see from the change in project title....nowhere near calling it a forest yet...

Been thinking about what other scenery I can do. I’m not really interested in more buildings....and I don’t need any more Neolithic stones.

A couple of things spring to mind.....a forest pool, marsh and swamp areas, hills ( I need to make some anyway) and having read up on the final days of the doomed legions, one feature that would be cool to model is the German rampart that proved unassailable complete with a couple of sally points. Basically a long bank, topped with hurdle fencing. Would have to make enough to span the table so about 4 feet of it.....but would look cool.

Any other ideas welcome...

Mason · « **Reply #48 on:** July 22, 2020, 12:49:09 AM »

Quote from: Digits on July 18, 2020, 05:53:22 PM

Mason, link as requested fella. Old project long since sold on...

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_ammobunker/army-of-darkness-alas-poor-yarrick-t9873.html

Holy crap!
That link is brilliant....and I have only got to page 20 and looking at pictures.

Cheers!

Now, back to gawking at the stuff in this thread...

folnjir · « **Reply #49 on:** July 22, 2020, 08:19:47 AM »

Well that's all a bit good isn't it! Especially for a week!

Sounds like you might be forced to actually paint those figures from your first post while you try to decide on more terrain though

Digits · « **Reply #50 on:** July 22, 2020, 08:50:31 AM »

Already on it.....cheers for the comments!

Fremitus Borealis · « **Reply #51 on:** July 22, 2020, 01:19:44 PM »

My gods, that is beautiful

Atheling · « **Reply #52 on:** July 22, 2020, 01:50:41 PM »

I knew this was going to go somewhere good (pats self on back

) - amazing work and just the right amount of colour so that has the right period look

Pinno · « **Reply #53 on:** July 22, 2020, 02:20:08 PM »

Fantastic work!!!

Johnny Boy · « **Reply #54 on:** July 22, 2020, 07:17:56 PM »

As I said in another topic here I wish I had more time and patience. I really want a Celtic village but the scratch build is beyond me and Grand Manner is even further beyond my means and my gaming budget. Do you know of a manufacturer that also supplies buildings painted?

Johnny Boy · « **Reply #55 on:** July 22, 2020, 07:19:37 PM »

And just realised I didn't start with that's some stunning work there giving a really good feel for the period.

Digits · « **Reply #56 on:** July 22, 2020, 08:00:50 PM »

No worries and thanks for the comments guys.

Johnny...these are by Hovels....and I believe you can get a painted set (one round house plus out buildings and fencing for about £100 from them too.

Johnny Boy · « **Reply #57 on:** July 22, 2020, 08:14:21 PM »

Excellent! Thanks for that Digits, I managed to save a few quid so that's a way forward. I've got a Germanic/Dark Age village that I hope I can mix in to make a larger settlement. Thanks again and keep up the good works. You're a great source of motivation and inspiration.

FifteensAway · « **Reply #58 on:** July 23, 2020, 07:29:30 AM »

Legatus Peripapetetus Digitus - you need that figure!

And heading way, way out into left field: the dolmans and standing stones etc. are always referred to as tombs and religious sites. But what if they were just research sites? As in the ancients sorting out the calendar and the stars and the known planets and such. I'm virtually certain that some of the sites in the American southwest were exactly that, perhaps for the more sophisticated (technologically) tribes in Mexico. I have in mind there was a 'scientific' network underway figuring that stuff out in Europe and that accounts for a lot of the 'mysterious' stone sites all over the place. Given some thought, it does make some sort of sense - after all, how many of the sites align with the sun and solstice and equinox and the like? As the millennia wore on and the original purpose got lost in the mist of time only then did the sites take on a more 'mystical' connotation.

We may now return to the astonishingly regular and delightful output from Mr. Digits.

has.been · « **Reply #59 on:** July 23, 2020, 07:42:03 AM »

My youngest brother & myself used to (for our own amusement) draw
cartoons about stone-age Brits. They looked a bit like the Slag Brothers
from Whacky Races. I recall one of his had them running a Mono-rail
around the top of Stone Henge, with one of the 'Brit Nits' running up
shouting, 'Quick dismantle it! The Romans are coming!'.

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