AWI Scattter Pieces

[FifteensAway]

Nice vignette pieces.  Do I smell a field kitchen baking bread?   

[kingsmt]

15's, Actually, Winter is coming!!

[kingsmt]

This was really fun to make!!
The soldier with the wounded shoulder appears to be asking his buddy if perhaps he should get a second opinion!!
Especially, after seeing that the previous patient ended up dead under the blanket, missing his leg!

I had so much fun doing this I started another batch of pieces.

Clik on the pix for better viewing.

[Wellington Bonaparte]

Very evocative diorama, we don't often see the real affect of war in our games, these little pieces remind us of the real world out there! Excellently done Kinsgmnt 

[FifteensAway]

Might have to bite off a rising bit of bile to do so, but you could go for a pile of severed limbs a few feet high - though that tale is really from the ACW so maybe not, the pile high enough to be seen through a window. 

And, yes, we should never ignore the real gore and horror that is war.  What we do is just a kids game gussied up.  Nothing remotely like reality.

Oh, and another cool vignette.

[kingsmt]

So, every book I have ever read concerning the AWI, has a passage that reads something like this.

"In the Spring, the rains came which turned the roads into quagmires"

Ye Olde Stuck in the Mud.

Click twice to see better pictures.

[Calvin59]

Thank you again for your photos of the scenes which give new ideas to decorate our wargame tables. 

[FifteensAway]

Well done yet again. 

Is it there and just hard to see or could the people and the horse's legs be a bit muddier?  Every time I've dealt with something similar (though not horse drawn anything), I get muddied up to my knees - and on hands up to elbows.

[kingsmt]

15's, It's not visible due to all the figures being turned inward, but they are covered in mud.
I find mud really hard to portray and it takes me forever to get it to my satisfaction.
It has to look churned up and have different colors swirling.

[kingsmt]

Winter has come to New Jersey. Moving the ammunition to Trenton through the storm.

[kingsmt]

Continental Artillery moves into position at Trenton.

[FifteensAway]

More good stuff.

[kingsmt]

A couple of new pieces.

The first piece shows a widow and her son behind the burial detail wagon.

The second was just a goof off. A British soldier has been assigned Guard Duty, with full pack, for attempting to open one of the rum caskets!! Punishment detail!

[FifteensAway]

Re the widow: poignant

Re the guard duty: I foresee an officer with some 'splainin' to do when he finds the guard, quite literally, dead drunk the next morning.   

[Calvin59]

The more photos you post of your scenes, the more I want to make them!