The Canal Attack

[Mason]

 

Wonderful!
 


Please show us more...
Pretty please, and all that stuff....

[Phil Robinson]

Stirling stuff alcal, welcome to LAF, those water logged pieces are very evocative, now you must post pics of that splendiferous abbey I saw on TMP.

[Wirelizard]

Holy hell, that is an amazing table!

Please do share construction details. Actually, on second thought, please don't, because I am too involved in my Russian Civil War project to wander off to the Western Front now! 

[Legion1963]

I think the most impressive part is that, in fact, it isn't a table as such... but elements with dirt added! Very very cohesive feel for such an undertaking.

Yes, you quite right....it is very dir-t-able 

[Sardoo]

This is gob-smackingly good! 

[alcal]

I think the most impressive part is that, in fact, it isn't a table as such... but elements with dirt added! Very very cohesive feel for such an undertaking.

I tried to come up with a generic table that i can add to or switch around from game to game to try and keep the interest going,i also ,as usual ,tried to do something different /new. Its in built in me and part of the excitement of my modelling and gaming,doesnt allways work and also some ideas are pioneered by others (as with the explosion markers).

Anyhow im glad you picked up on, really,how simple the lay out is.

Cheers AL

[Mjolnir]

WOW, just great

[WillieB]

Simply stunning.
And very inspirational indeed. I've - finally-  lined up my WWI Belgians as my next project.
Thanks very much for sharing this!

[jamesmanto]

<q>,i lost 59 dead crossing that canal.</q> 

Sounds about right.

Wonderful looking game!

James

[Golgotha]

Nothing better than using dirt for dirt. Still think a sand tray as used for entertaining pre-schoolers would work best for WWI, trenches are then below ground level and terrain can be easilly changed and without hassl perhaps of bothersome ad space wasting terrain boards.

[Marine0846]

Really can not add more to what's been said.
I just sat back and enjoyed the photos.
Thanks for sharing.

[alcal]

Well thats good enough cheers AL

Just a note guys the dirt isnt `dirt`its a large tub of dyed or ready bought scatter and tree bits.

[Michi]

Al, what I admire the most - in a sad way that table/terrain looks so sad, so brown and grey and wet and dead like one giant grave that the battlefields of trench warfare had been indeed. Despair, fear, doom and the death himself is almost as visible as one images a plague infested medieval town.

[Shrimper]

Apologies for posting on such an old thread, but have only just stumbled across this. Spectacular work! What did you use for the mat underneath? I love the idea of making stuff more modular, but your mat really helps to make the modules look part of the landscape...

Jim.

[alcal]

Hi Jim

 The cloth is a dust sheet that's been painted brown,it dried a bit stiff so I wet it and ran it through the tmble dryer.I SH*T myself when the inside of the drum  and the glass front turned brown on about the fifth rotation.
 Well damge done so I waited until it had dried out and removed the cloth ,I washed the inside of the machine out with a bowl full of soapy water and got all back to normal before the boss got home from work....phew....... The cloth then had the consistency of sacking so I was happy with that.

Cheers AL