"Who has dioramas or vignettes for their gaming table?" Topic

I have seen some wonderful vignettes on the gaming table. The first issue of Battle Games (great magazine) showed some of Peter Guilder's sudan collection with arab market places, dervishes crawling over rocks to peer down on Britishers, clothes left to dry on rocks. Fantastic.

Some people use little dioramas for their high command bases. Others have limbers or have nice pieces for their baggage.

I have some wagons and a field forge from Old Glory. Unpainted. Doh!

Do you have any of these lovely items to spice up your gaming table? or do you find that getting the space, terrain and painted figures together at once is already enough of an effort?

Neil
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I have a few little bits, rural folk for my ECW with their animals and I have a baggage train for my ECWs (6 wagons) etc but other than that I find painting the forces I need for the game enough of a trouble as it is although I do love all the extras. I also don't paint limbers or caissons. Gilder was a master adding all of these extras.

I have 28mm film crew (so the game is only really a film set after all) and I'm thinking of making some camera planes for by Battle of Britain collection (so the game is the making of the film).

I almost always enjoy seeing these extras when added to display games except those awful things of people being hung, sacrificed etc I can't see where the pleasure is in making, painting or displaying that kind of event but then I don't like or use casualty figures either for similar reasons – I find them distasteful.

I use knocked out tanks as terrain items for Crossfire which are based as little dioramas – burned ground surface, bits of tank and tack scattered by explosion, dead crew, etc. I like to add scenic items to figure bases too if size allows. Plain bases are the devil's work.

Phil Olley is one of the masters of creating little vignettes and dioramas to place on the wargame table. He has been doing this for some time now and they are a joy to behold.

I have wanted to do it, but never wanted to spend money that I could spend on armies on little side things and also, the time to paint.

But now, I have more time (as soon as I complete my ACW infantry units and cavalry units and enlarge my artillery to a battery on each side.)

Right…never have the time.

I do. I think the tabletop (and my cabinet) really benefit from these little pieces, it adds to the personnality of an army. It's one of the thing I really like about the Perry's ranges (Foundry or Perry). My favourite is the Bavarians looting from Foundry.

Love this aspect of the hobby. I have Priest and Mission Indians around for my California Missions to be used in my Mexican American War games and a host of other vignettes that pop up on the battlefield. For my ACW 10mm games I have many N scale structures, trains and other complete scenes. This may be reflective of my model railroad "other hobby" but I find it fun.

Joel Salmons

Got the Perry field Hospital for their Sudan line for my British Colonial army. The Pathans have a shepherd boy with his flock and assorted market stalls.

Napoleon, glowering, foot on drum. Berthier waiting to translate his master's utterances into orders. Bevy of marshals, aides, chasseurs on guard duty standing obsequeisely behind.
Band behind that. About 30 figures.
When its only a brigade sized game it looks a little like overkill though.

I have some Trojan War vignettes & casualty figures from Redoubt. I may put them on the table the next time.