SI’s Generic Terrain: ud 28/12 Finished Haystacks

[Captain Blood]

Great haystacks Steve 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps

going to have to copy these 

There are lots of ways to do it, including just stacking the bristles and gluing them with PVA if they’re the right colour to start with, or gluing with PVA with paint mixed in. I used UHU over cork formers as it’s quick, though messy (hairy fingers!) and I was intending to paint the haystacks to match my other terrain:

[Pattus Magnus]

That poor brush! Still, it died for a higher cause and the haystacks look great.

[Silent Invader]

Lol

Finished haystacks:

[OSHIROmodels]

They look good 

[Pattus Magnus]

Those look great! They will add a nice touch to games. Just curious, which regions and time periods are this sort of haystack suitable for? I know next to nothing about historical farming techniques. These seem like an easy scenic feature to add, but I try to avoid really out of place features in games!

[Silent Invader]

Thanks. I’ll be using them for games ranging from Medieval (13thC) through to Victorian (19thC). As far as I’m concerned they’re good for any field farming environment pre wide-scale mechanisation.

[Pattus Magnus]

That makes a lot of sense. I certainly wouldn’t quibble about seeing those on most pre-WW2 battle fields (actually, aren’t haystacks like that in one of the Ardennes battle scenes in Band of Brothers? The US assault on the village).

Thanks for posting pics of the WIP and finished versions!

[Silent Invader]

So yes, extend that range to mid 20thc 

[Elk101]

Nice stacks. They're suitable well up to mid 20th C as rectangular bales came into use about then with round bales in the late 60s and early 70s, from what I recall.