How to make wargames terrain river
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I’ve gone for the latter, for a couple of reasons. So the choice comes down to painting rivers onto the boards and texturing flat ground up to the water’s edge (which I’ve done before) or cutting right through the boards to create river banks and placing everything on an underlying ‘water’ layer. With my terrain built from 9mm marine plywood that’s not a possibility, and with the rough texturing I use nor are ‘place on’ rivers. In an ideal world these are carved into thick sheets of high density foam board, providing the opportunity for deep banks, as well as sunken roads and realistic undulations everywhere else. By their nature they look best with a bit of depth, and that’s the challenge of course. As with the hills, there are always compromises when it comes to adding rivers to a wargames table. With the hills cut and shaped, I decided to plough on this weekend with getting them onto their boards, and making a start on the other terrain I’ve been planning for a while – rivers. A slow-burn project, but one I’ll come back to for sure. I’m looking for fleet battles, not frigate actions, so some simple rules will be needed too.
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No chequerboard paint jobs (impossible at that scale anyway!), less British dominance/superiority, plenty of campaigns, battles and settings, the C&C challenge of maintaining a line, etc. These are Napoleonic ships, but I think the wars of the mid-18th century appeal a bit more. Re-visited my collection of 1/3000 sailing ships with a view to getting more of them painted and onto the table at some point.Some of this is around simple rules to link games for a variety of periods – I’m on at least version 3 but I’m getting there! I’ve also been doing some storyline work on my Medetian Wars setting for Sharp Practice, although I’m holding off a little until the 2nd edition of the rules come out as I’d like to check them over and incorporate any important or interesting changes they bring. Done some thinking and prep for a few small campaign ideas.Author World2Dave Posted on 20th October 2020 Categories Terrain 3 Comments on 6mm Fields A 4-Part Hill
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I aim to get these on the table for the next Rhine War battle in the coming weeks. I had been considering making some terrain boards with 6mm fields painted on, but these place-down fields have given me a more flexible (haha) solution. Keeping them separate makes for easier storage, as the fields can simply be stacked together. I am also making some field edges – mostly strips and corners of rough hedges and trees – to put around some of the fields. I decided to edge the fields in green to match and blend in better with the terrain boards. I used a relatively limited pallet for the field colours, focusing on a wheatfield or recently-cropped look. I know some people have had great success with caulk as the coating layer, which I think provides a greater level of flex, but as I’m not intending to roll these pieces up the paint is proving sufficient.
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I then reduced the production time for the second batch by texturing and painting a larger sheet (about a foot square) and then cutting it up and texturing the edges.Īs long as I don’t try too hard to crack the textured surface, the end result is robust and flexible. My test pieces were cut out of 1.5mm thick neoprene (a few quid for a square metre off ebay) and textured with my usual combination of Sandtex masonry paint and builders’ sand. My first efforts focused on some islands for naval games (more on that soon) but recently I decided it would be good to make some textured fields for 6mm games. There’s something nice about making wargame terrain and scenery that isn’t going to warp in the future – so working with neoprene sheet has been a revelation for me.