Lads,
Recently we started preparing some scenarios for Force on Force/AmbushAlley set in Africa, ranging from Border Wars, Portuguese Colonial Wars and Bush Wars, and for that I discover I need more terrain, namely some familiar homesteads, named Kraals
Technically speaking a Kraal is a round fence for cattle, but as most of the cattle fences, in Rhodesia, north of Mozambique and Zambia, are inside homesteads, themselves protected by palisades, they also receive the same designation.
Getting the S&S Modern African huts, which depict a more modern pattern than the Hovels ones, I started imagining the family homestead set in some unmentioned area of southern Africa.
And this what I’ve made:
S&S Huts, and a base in 3mm MDF – cut to size, already primed and sealed with gesso paint
Palisade, made of bamboo table mat
Palisade painted and weathered
More planning….
The cattle pen… the real Kraal
A small plantation area.
Some vertical posts……….
Cooking area with fireplace
Some doors made.
Crops walling done and painted….. things started to look like they should be….
Huts painted and weathered…. now time to glue them, and finishing small areas and small washes….
And the final product:
Now fill in with some animals (Preiser ready painted ones – sold as 1:72, but exactly the same ones as their 1:87 models), as I don’t have African cattle, I used the ones from Preiser, plus some Elhiem Africans, sculpted and painted by Nuno/Kingcarbine. Weaver baskets from Nikolai, ceramic vessels S&S adapted.
Thanks for looking, comments welcome
Faustnik