By Kreighton Long
After completing my North African Italians I committed to building a set of desert terrain for them to fight in. In addition to the standard dwellings and walls I wanted to build palm groves to add some soft cover and greenery to the table. While wandering around a Michaels store I came across bags of palm trees on sale and decided the time to start the palm groves was now.
By Kreighton Long
As many a tabletop war gamer has learned, the winter holiday season is a wonderful time for terrain builders. This past winter I stocked up on the three styles of Lemax mats in stock at Michaels with the idea of using them to build European style cobblestone roads for my urban tables.
I wanted to build 6 x 12″ sections of road that will allow me to easily stack and store the road sections as well as drop them down on the table as needed. I found a pack of 20 basswood sheets measuring 6 x 12 x 1/8 inches on Amazon and added them to my cart.
By Kreighton Long
My summer of terrain projects continues with a set of homemade rivers. I set out to echo the method by which I created a set of ponds several years ago. The materials I used were chipboard for the base, plastic table covers for the river, Vallejo’s Silver Grey paint, Apple Barrel’s Black and Melted Chocolate paint, Delta Creative’s Trail Tan paint, Craft Smart’s Olive Green and Espresso paints, PVA glue, sand, and various basing flock and tufts.
For the plastic table covers I used LovePads 1.5mm thick clear desk pads. I prepped the table covers by cutting them to size, ironing them under a t-shirt to smooth out the material, and cleaning them with glass cleaner.
By Kreighton Long
Feeling adventurous, I set out to build a pigsty for my rural Bolt Action terrain. Most of the materials were easy enough to order online. The wattle fences came from Renedra Ltd; the mother pig from Warlord Games; and the balsa wood, match sticks, coffee stirrers, and green stuff from my hobby cache.
By Kreighton Long
Slowly but surely I’ve been working on improving my terrain options with the focus on Bolt Action. My primary army project for this year is overhauling my Soviet forces. Accordingly, my terrain optics have been focused on the terrain pieces that will best fit the Eastern Front.
By Kreighton Long
Thanks to Great Escape Games I finally worked up the courage to take a crack at painting horses with their Romanian cavalry. Fortunately for me, I have a former equestrian a shout away to lend her expertise. A goal I had for my mounted Romanians was to have an eye-catching amount of variety with the different mounts.
Of course with my partner passing my painting desk every so often to quality control my progress I was able to work with her to incorporate some authentic colorings. Below are some of the different colorings I ended up with and the corresponding colors. All paints used below are from Vallejo.
By Troy A Hill
I put my preorder in for Warlord Games new Pike & Shotte Epic Battles Push of Pike boxed set, and it arrived this past weekend. Warlord continues their epic streak of 14-ish mm Epic Battles scale releases.
Special shoutout to Morgan, who packed my set. Everything looks spot on, and I couldn’t be happier with the set.
That said, I’m totally confused now. Growing up in ‘Muricah! and only getting to study the American Civil War (ACW), one can imagine my surprise to find out that our British cousins had their own civil war (English Civil War, or ECW) a couple of centuries before ours. So, now I’m wondering who the English versions of Lee and Grant were?
