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Author Topic: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: 15mm Enineers  (Read 11109 times)

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Offline Utgaard

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: How-To flexible unpaved roads
« Reply #46 on: August 28, 2024, 06:12:45 AM »
Thanks!  :)

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #47 on: September 06, 2024, 02:08:12 PM »
The next terrain pieces were right at the top of my to-do list for terrain, simply because they are so typical of Italy, Sicily and the Levante: Vineyards.

However, it took a few (failed) attempts before I achieved an acceptable result that fulfilled the criteria - should look like a vineyard; should not be a firmly modelled hill; must therefore be flexible.

I'm quite happy with that for now, although I already have 2 ideas for improvements for the next version - let's see if they work as intended


Click here for more pictures and chatter, to my blog:
https://utgaards-blog.blogspot.com/2024/09/terrain-in-vino-veritas-flexible.html









Works for 15mm but for 28mm too as you can see::

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #48 on: September 06, 2024, 05:25:22 PM »
They look good but not quite right for a vineyard.  For the 15 mm guys they certainly look more like orange or lemon groves due to the scale.  I wonder if you can get the growth going along the wires a bit more rather than so round?  The traditional vineyard is sort of longer and thinner and less bush like.

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #49 on: September 07, 2024, 09:14:07 AM »
They do sit well on the hills, what did you use as the base?

I’m with Jon that they do look a bit bush like for vineyards.

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2024, 04:26:18 PM »
Yes, of course I know what a vineyard normally looks like, the large gaps between the vines themselves are the compromise I had to make to achieve the desired flexibility.

For the base I used just some fleece.

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #51 on: September 07, 2024, 11:30:39 PM »
The gaps don’t detract from the look to be honest - it’s the clumped foliage that stops it reading as a vineyard and makes it look like an orchard.  The foliage needs to be thinner and in a continuous line.

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #52 on: September 08, 2024, 08:36:46 AM »
Yeah another point that will change with the next version.

Didn´t use clump foliage but poly fibre - the problem are the trunks, will have to made them a bit different so they don´t look like little trees.

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #53 on: September 08, 2024, 07:16:56 PM »
This is great!

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #54 on: September 08, 2024, 10:43:37 PM »
Yeah another point that will change with the next version.

Didn´t use clump foliage but poly fibre - the problem are the trunks, will have to made them a bit different so they don´t look like little trees.

What’s the thickness of a typical grape vine?  Even at 28 mm they will he pretty thin, feels like geavy duty wire would be thick enough?

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: flexible vineyards
« Reply #55 on: September 09, 2024, 06:17:14 AM »
This is great!

Thank you  :)


What’s the thickness of a typical grape vine?  Even at 28 mm they will he pretty thin, feels like geavy duty wire would be thick enough?

Yeah the next trunks will be built from wire and the branches just stretched to the sides so they should be much thinner.

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Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: Jump Off Points
« Reply #56 on: October 04, 2024, 01:13:14 PM »
As I wanted some thematically appropriate Jump Off Points (Chain of Command) / Objective Markers (Battlegroup) for my US Boys, I used some leftover miniatures from my AD- and Airborne projects and some drop containers and parachutes (self-printed ones) to build 4 of them. Scale 15mm again.




Along this way!


A short rest.


Re-supply found!


All stowed away now.


More pictures of these 4 Jump Off Points can be found on my Blog:
https://utgaards-blog.blogspot.com/2024/10/chain-of-command-jump-of-points-for-my.html

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: Jump Off Points
« Reply #57 on: October 04, 2024, 02:11:56 PM »
Pretty cool idea, nicely executed!

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: Jump Off Points
« Reply #58 on: October 05, 2024, 01:43:26 AM »
Really nice, makes my mdf rounds with JOP or OBJ written on them look less snazzy  lol

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Re: Utgaard's WW2 projects in 15mm - update: Jump Off Points
« Reply #59 on: October 05, 2024, 01:48:10 AM »
Those are clever: especiallly the soldiers at rest.

 

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