Category Archives: Terrain

Wargaming terrain & scenery posts.

The Next Building Project

I don’t usually like to talk about plans and ideas before there’s at least some progress to show off, but while I was away over the New Year I had time to do some quick sketching and thinking about a … Continue reading

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Second Russian House WiP

Started another Russian farmhouse on Boxing Day evening, this one slightly bigger than the first at 4″x2″. I mentioned in the previous article that I used coffee stir sticks for the wood siding. The workbench photo below should explain some … Continue reading

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Night Before the Night Before…

… and over at my place, I was hiding out, enjoying the last evening of solitary, productive peace and quiet I”ll have for a while, as the holiday season proper lands on us tomorrow. In between beer, sending out festive … Continue reading

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Small Tools of Great Use

Here’s something I bought largely on a whim from a local craft store that has proven unexpectedly useful. It’s a 2oz (60ml) sprayer, cost about $2, and I find all sorts of uses for it. Filled (as it is here) … Continue reading

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Half-Timber Barn WiP Part II: Thatched Roof

Picked up a cheap towel to use as thatching. Here it is in a quickie late-night photograph, glue still wet on the roof of the half-timber barn.

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Half-Timber Barn WiP

Something for the English Civil War/Thirty Years War table, as well as for pulp games set in the quainter parts of the UK or Europe! All those crops gathered from my fields have to be stored somewhere, after all. The … Continue reading

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Scenery: Plowed Fields

First scenery project in quite a while, I’ve done lots of figure painting over the winter and spring but no scenery. I pulled the top layer of paper off a sheet of corrugated cardboard and cut that up for the … Continue reading

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Shoreline Part 2 (Sort of…)

ound, buried in my harddrive, another couple of forgotten work-in-progress shots from the first round of shoreline/riverbank construction back in June 2009. The rest of the construction was written up last week.

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Shoreline or River Bank Terrain Pieces

These riverbanks or shorelines made from picture-framing board (mattboard). I did the first set back in 2009 and another batch in the winter of 2010. They’re designed to form one edge of a playing board, especially on the 2′x2′ playing … Continue reading

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Gallery: Shipyard Photos for Inspiration

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Another revival from the old Brian’s Wargame Pages version of the site, and one that I should have brought forward ages ago! You can see the Esquimalt Drydock on Google Maps for a sense of scale that wasn’t available ten … Continue reading

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