1:1200 terrain for Aeronef

[pixelgeek]

Can anyone recommend a good source for 1:1200 terrain for use in Aeronef?

Thanks

[Big Guy]

I have used the 2mm stuff from Irregular (via Eureka) it looks OK as long as you want rural England.

[pixelgeek]

Well at that size it should do for any European countryside shouldn't it?

Has anyone had any experience with the Langston terrain?

[Gluteus Maximus]

I have used the 2mm stuff from Irregular (via Eureka) it looks OK as long as you want rural England.

I've used it for the ACW and 19thC Italy in the past and would be easy enough to convert to other settings.

The buildings etc are so small as to be fairly generic anyway.

I used the Woodland Scenics clumps of foliage for woods and sculpted polystyrene ceiling tiles for hills. Anything else can be done by simply painting onto cloth/board etc.

IIRC, Steve Blease used to use textured wallpaper for his basic terrain when doing demos in the UK. It looked very impressive.

[fastolfrus]

The only terrain we have is some harbour installations (bomber raids on ports make good objectives), but we got hold of some old Hornby-Minic sets years ago that look ok.
Some of the Hornby-Minic stuff has just been rereleased, and pieces regularly appear on ebay (but the old 1950s stuff is quite pricey)
We also found a diecast Statue of Liberty (holiday souvenir perhaps?) on a car boot sale that firs in of we want to raid the USA.

Suitable ships are more of a problem, there are plenty of WWII ones about, but pre dreadnoughts are scarce (well scarce if you are looking for cheap ones anyway), although we found some reasonable WWI destroyers/light cruisers from MY Miniatures (based somewhere near Goole IIRC)

[psyberwyche]

I have quite a few bits of resin Langton terrain 1:1200. Good quality and excellent service, though a bit overpriced. I also have the metal harbour walls set, which have meticulous brickwork detail.

[6mmfan]

Yes Langtons is very nice but some of the buildings are huge.

You could make buildings from pieces of balsa or plastic card and paint the door and windows on (or use a fine pen to draw them on)

There is a 2mm website (cant remember the link) which has some good pictures of Irregulars 2mm range and is useful if you what to get some of those, or you can copy the ideas and make you own.

[Thunderchicken]

Hi there,

Although not a great pic this gives you an idea of Irregular Miniatures' terrain (I quickly uploaded it for you this morning). The pic shows three separate village sections grouped together. If you increase the size of the pic the detail should come out.

http://www.displacedminiatures.com/Thunderchicken/image.html?galleryId=2675&imageId=26542

[pixelgeek]

Very nice. Thanks for that.

[pixelgeek]

Does anyone in the US carry Irregular's terrain line?

[Thunderchicken]

Try Silver Eagle Wargames Supplies. By the looks of it they have the terrain listed under Irregular 2mm in the 'Long and the Short' section. The list look pretty similar to the one here in the UK (I had 5 minutes to kill!!).

Hope this helps.

[HerbyF]

Some of the buildings from the Milton-Bradley Game of Life piltered from the game board would work nicely. The others could be used foe 1/300 scale buildings. One can often get old games from second hand stores cheaply. Also the houses & hotels from Monopoly might work too.

[answer_is_42]

Also the houses & hotels from Monopoly might work too.

They'd be far too big. And anyway, how are you going to play monopoly without the houses?
I've used the Irregular stuff before, and can recommend it. 

[rugaruga]

I just make mine from wood.  I have a woodshop so I can rip strips of wood any length with dementions between 1/4" and 1".   You can also purchase birch or bass wood strips from hobbystores.   With a hand plane I bevel one side to form a roof top.  Hobby stores might also have triangle strips that can be glued on the rectangle strip.  Then it's a simple matter of slabbing various blocks from the strip using a hobby razor saw and miterbox.  Cutting houses from strips allows you to produce many units quickly. Make one strip twice as tall as a second and then glue one block from each together at 90 degrees to create various designs.   If you have the tools and skill, make coping cuts in the side of one block so they join to form hipped roofs.  DIY jewelry beading supplies offer numous findings that serve as smoke stacks and water towers for factory complexes. 

Glue 5-15 buildings on a thin plywood base in an irregular fasion to suggest a village or in a grid for more uraban setting.  Be sure to leave room for streetsd and parks.  Roads can be painted in.

I don't worry about windows and doors in this scale.   Once grouped the buildings look convincing.  Gray works for buildings made of field stone.  A light red for red brick factories.  Roofs I paint in buff for thatch, black, gray and white stippled on looks like slate shingles. 

Paint the base a green and brown to match your table top cover. Add flocking and ground folliage and your good to go. 

In general it's better to keep buildings smaller in scale than they would appear in 1:1200 otherwise even a small town would take up most of the gaming area.