"6mm Crossfire Soviet Afghan War game." Topic

I have posted a brief summary and some pictures from a recent game of the "Brazo de Nelson" games club in Tenerife.

The game was played with 6mm figures using the Crossfire rules and set in the mountainous Paktia Province of Afghanistan. 2 Soviet companies were tasked to recon and secure a mountain valley allowing the safe passage of a supply convoy.

More images and a some details on how the game played out on my site here:
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Corr look at that!

Awesome looking game!

Excellent looking game! Any tips on how you made the scenery especially those fantastic mountains?

Thanks

Yeah, this game looked great!

Thanks,

John

Thanks for the comments guys.

LM: The mountains are made from offcuts of dense insulating foam sheets (blue, pink or yellow type, not white styrofoam). The stuff I scrounged was the thickness shown by the black edge facing in the above picture.
I cut it to rough shape with a cheap handsaw and then used a less than sharp carpenters chisel to "pick" out chunks of foam to create a rough and irregular looking cliff edge. (Make sure you attack the base as well to make entry/exit caves and sufficient shallow inclines to allow troops and vehicles? to get to the upper surfaces)
The top of the sheet got treated the same way but stabbed less deeply. Then scratched with the chisel and coarse sanded to create the rough texture. I then brushed on white glue (PVA or wood glue) where I wanted more texture and patted on handfuls of mixed grade beach sand/grit. Let dry overnight, undercoat everything in black latex emulsion paint, roughly drybrush in caramel brown latex emulsion then again in yellow latex emulsion (I had the colour mixed to match the sheet I use as the basecloth).
More brushed on white glue and a dusting of model railway flock mixed 4:1 with cheap static grass on the areas I wanted some greenery.

This is a bit over half the set I made to use for all my "yellow cloth" based games and took about 6 hours work over 3 days.

Excellent !!!
The scenario, the table, models, AAR..thanks to share

Hi Rob

Many thanks for sharing the detailed info. I particularly like your use of a chisel to get the desired look and a great idea to get the paint mixed to match your base cloth.

I think the best Afghan scenery I've seen! Cheers

Very nice. Too bad about the Soviet paratroopers.
(I just saw 10th Company)

That is a really great set up, well done.

Tip

Awesome stuff, great work.

That's a nice table !!