Here's some stuff I completed for the Cassinga game just before flying out to Italy. Today I've added a second coat of varnish to the soggy bits. There are nine two-foot square terrain boards in total - three are connected by a river, while two more have a soggy river-bed with ponds, three have trenches and one has a drainage ditch - only one of them is devoid of features. They will eventually get a dry-brush with white and flock and bushes added:
I've made another two-dozen trees from Woodland Scenics armatures and a mixture of foliage-mesh and foliage clusters. Instead of using MDF bases, I've this time used sewing needles, heated with a candle and shoved up the trunk, so that the trees can then simply be 'stabbed' into polystyrene terrain:
Some African buildings by Peter Pig, which will represent the more solid buildings of Cassinga. The colours are fairly typical for Angola, if Google is to be believed:
I need a walled cemetery for Cassinga, so I've used Peter Pig walls and gravestones by Magister Militum. This could just as easily be a cemetery in Normandy, so will come in handy for future games:
I need a Cessna 185 air observation post. This is a very nice 3D print of a Cessna 172 by Shapeways - it'll have the tricycle undercarriage replaced by a tail-dragged arrangement, thus turning it into a 185:
Some Vietnam artillery position by Timecast, which will become Angolan AAA positions:
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Looks great. The buildings look spot on
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Nice work - especially like the trenches.
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My first thoughts as well.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Ta! The sandbags, which are resin strips, each about 40mm long (I used six packs) are sold by a company called Battlezone and are very handy as 'trench-toppers'. However, although being described as '15mm', they are bloody enormous in scale and are more like mealie-sacks. They'd work perfectly well in 28mm... Still, they do look good...
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Oh and the revetments for the sides of the trenches are simply pushed-in matchsticks. I made the 'lids' for the bunkers out of thick card, PVA'd, sanded, painted and flocked.
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You've been flocking in the signal box?