What the hell is in that tub? I hear you ask?
Lee came round on Saturday for another terrain building day, for our now, two Winter periods.
We started on our tracks, you can't really call them roads. I bought 2 plastic mats a while ago from one of the pound shops, cut them into stripes, then added the brown goo all over them. Which is actually flexible builders caulk, with a good squeeze of brown paint in it. We did these first as they're gonna take a while to dry.
We'll paint over them an earth brown colour when dry and add snow and grass.
Lee was the No1 muck spreader....
While I had the hard job, cutting out the second mat.
Next was the trees, these were our favourites, from The Tree Guy
I also bought various Christmas type trees from pound shops and Hobby Craft
Some of the trees had a round block base, which I cut off, we had to drill into the MDF bases, then hot glued them in place.
Just look at the concentration on his face.
A spray can of white paint really give the trees a frosty snowy look.
Before...
And after
Then we ruined my luvvly paintjob i did on the buildings by dusting them with white spray and with some snow.
Lee said I was eating too many Wine Gums, so took a photo as evidence.
Exhibit A
We did the same white spray on the burnt our buildings and again added more snow.
Nice n Icey
Our last job was ice.
How best to make ice on our river sections??
Plexi Glass was the answer,
1. Buy an expensive sheet (hence my face)
2. Smash it up (hence my face)
3. Try to avoid flying Plexi Glass
4. Give it a rub one side on some sandpaper or a sanding block
5. We now have ice
Hopefully enough to fill in all of our rivers?
And that was the end of the day, as we were both very tired chaps!
All looking good
ReplyDeleteCheers Sgt! I'm very pleased how its coming along.
DeleteVery useful collection of terrain and very sensible doing big batch in one go...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, It would have taken us forever doing a few at a time, and everything is at my house as well.
DeleteWooow! Final effect is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThe trees came out a lit better than I thought they would, being honest.
DeleteCracking creativity chaps. Wine gums must be great fuel 😆
ReplyDelete100% Wine Gums = Positive mental attitude......(highlighting the word mental!)
DeleteSome great work and cool ideas there Ray, very nicely done! I have heard of builder's caulk being used for roads before - think it was our mate Stew over in Ca.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be flexible builders caulk, which is like a mix of polyfilla and mastic.
DeleteA very productive day on the terrain building front
ReplyDeleteCertainly was, Neil, we got a lot of stuff done.
DeleteBusy and epic
ReplyDeleteTwo doing the work, really helps.
DeleteGreat day for moving the project forward. i like the clever (expensive :-) ) ice idea but am most intrigued by the roads they are spot on and I assume not subject to any warp. Is that a fibre type foot mat that you used?
ReplyDeleteNo warping for the roads, they we're just 2 cheap black rubber/plastic mats, think they were £2 each? I chose these because they were covered in small nipples, to catch mud in when you wiped your feet, therefore, they would grip the caulk, Lee buttered all over them. I wanted this type of material so, they would hug the table and still be flexible enough to hug the contour of hills.
DeleteA lot of work but that looks like fun. Did you frost the gummies as well?
ReplyDeleteThey weren't there long enough for that, Alex!
DeleteWow Ray, you and Lee have certainly done a lot of work here. I have seen on other blogs the use of rubber mats to make roads/rivers, this is something that I have been thinking about for a while now. Keep up the good work mate,
ReplyDeleteWill do, Steve, will do!
DeleteI reckon one more terrain day will see this lot finished...then we just have the 500 other flippin trees you bought! Methinks you went a little overboard... completely in keeping with our approach to this whole project in fact 🤣🤪
ReplyDeleteHmm? To be honest, I didn't really know just how many I'd bought, Thanks Teemu!!!
DeleteAll looking very good. Plus, it had the benefit of keeping you two off the streets and away from getting into trouble.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, we are both always in trouble, we don't need to walk the streets to find it either!! LOL!
DeleteBrilliant stuff Ray. That's a lot of work but looking good. If Lee is no 1 muck spreader and you No 2 muck spreader (not a great job title) 😆
ReplyDeleteI was the commander, I bullied Lee into being the muck spreader, very craftily I might add!
DeleteA big day with some very productive outcomes. The Plexi Glass as ice is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI was expensive, we toyed with the idea of gluing the ice pieces onto out river sections, but chose not to in the end, it just saved another job.
DeleteLooking good - such a good output.... the wargaming 'Elves' look pleased to be put to work :-)
ReplyDeleteWe were Stuart, its great to get that fulfilment feeling. Even if it is for soldiers and man toys!
DeleteWow Ray! This looks like a very, very fun day. Love the crafting side of things.
ReplyDeleteWe did enjoy ourselves Whisk!
DeleteAn instructive tutorial--the white highlight on the evergreens is a nice touch. And an interesting read, too.
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised how well that worked, Ed.
DeleteVery cool. I always would like to a whole day of crafting with other wargaming enthusiasts because I guess this would be fun. Your photos are the best proof for this suggestion.
ReplyDeleteOh, it was fun, getting a lot done in one day, beats getting a little done every other day.
DeleteSome great work Ray with storage a challenge I have to try and make my terrain as flexible as possible. I love the ice idea 👍
ReplyDeleteAgain, we were surprised how well it came out Matt. I wanted to go the whole hog and glue it all down, but it was definitely better to have it loose.
DeleteI found an illustration of the Illyrian Regiment on Wikipedia. You'll see that it does indeed wear the light infantry uniform, as Jonathan Freitag pointed out on January 8th.
ReplyDeletehttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9giment_d%27Illyrie#:~:text=En%201812%2C%20le%20r%C3%A9giment%20est,premi%C3%A8re%20%3A%20Kovno%20en%20Pologne%20%C2%BB.
I also found a history of the regiment. The last chapter concerns the uniform and its distinctive features.
http://frederic.berjaud.free.fr/regiment_illyrie.htm
The green in some of the illustrations is due to confusion with the 3rd Croatian Regiment.
Perhaps one day you'll want to give your Illyrians a battalion pennant similar to those shown on this site. The regiment had neither an eagle nor a flag, just one pennant per battalion.
In the field, blue breeches were often replaced by trousers, usually white.
As for coats, they were beige, gray, or blue-gray, depending on the fabric available at the time of their manufacture, including for the light infantry. Only units of the Old Guard, the Middle Guard, artillery regiments, engineer regiments, and marine artillery wore blue coats.
Officers who wore blue coats were either from the Guard or hoped to be assigned to it someday. The coats were too expensive to buy a second one.
I hope this information is helpful.
A great find! Thanks very much!
DeleteGood stuff! That's great you have someone to hang out with while you both create terrain. So often our painting and modeling is a solo venture. STILL waiting for that first game, my friend...haha!
ReplyDeleteIts on its way Mike.......soon!
DeleteA most productive day!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly was David, it would have taken us 5 times longer if we were doing it alone, that's for sure.
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