| Tango01 | 14 Jun 2015 10:13 p.m. PST |
Superb!
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| blacksoilbill | 14 Jun 2015 11:37 p.m. PST |
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| A P Hill | 15 Jun 2015 5:01 a.m. PST |
Liked the field. Realistic, the way it should be. |
| Tango01 | 15 Jun 2015 10:20 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it boys!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
 ochoin  | 15 Jun 2015 2:04 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 15 Jun 2015 11:28 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it too my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
| autoblinda | 16 Jun 2015 12:09 a.m. PST |
Great idea with the carpet |
| wargamer6 | 16 Jun 2015 4:13 a.m. PST |
I love it, it looks really good , its gives you that moment of doubt as to whether you are looking at real life or a model about it, what scale are the figures, they look bigger than 15mm. I hope I am wrong and feel free to prove I am but I don't recall seeing that type of drystone walling outside of Derbyshire or Yorkshire. From my holiday photos the French walls in the Mediterranean look different than that and there isn't much of it seen in northern Europe either . |
| Tango01 | 16 Jun 2015 10:57 a.m. PST |
I buyed two carpets and did the same. About the wall.. I have seen them in Spain too. Amicalement
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| TKindred | 16 Jun 2015 3:58 p.m. PST |
I like the idea of the tea leaves. I'm going to have to go play around with that. As to adding texture to your bases, you can also use coffee grounds. Make sure you use USED grounds, however. Take the used coffee grounds, and spread them in a thin layer on a cookie sheet or round pizza pan. Place them in an oven set to 250 degrees for a couple hours, until they are fully dried out. Now you can use them like sand on your bases, or even mix them with craft paint for a "textured" finish. Model railroaders have done this for more than 50 years as an inexpensive way of getting ground cover on their layouts. One other quick point: You can also use real dirt on your terrain. HOWEVER, you need to prepare it first. Just like the coffee grounds, you need to bake them on low heat for 2-3 hours (250 degrees) in order to kill any sort of mold/fungus/etc living in the dirt. After the dirt cools down, run a magnet over it just in case there's any small ferrous particles still hiding in there. Now you can sift it onto a wet-painted surface, or one covered with thinned white glue, like Woodland Scenics "Scenic Cement" or thinned PVA. It'll look real, because it is real.  |
| Bill N | 16 Jun 2015 5:45 p.m. PST |
TK is correct about using dirt. I did this in my model railroad days. After heating it for a couple of hours I ran it through a blender, then screened it so that you have different consistencies. He left out the MOST IMPORTANT part though. Make sure you do all of this when your wife is gone for the entire day. |
| TKindred | 16 Jun 2015 9:04 p.m. PST |
Bill N. I used to own a couple of old blenders for just that purpose. I bought them for a few dollars each at the local Goodwill store, though you can usually find them easy enough at a yard sale, flea market, etc. And yeah, do it while the wife is away, and for heaven's sake, wash all the pans before she gets back. |
| Baranovich | 17 Jun 2015 6:54 a.m. PST |
That is some seriously fine wargaming scenery right there!! |
| Tango01 | 17 Jun 2015 10:45 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it too my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
looks at some WWII German tank-hunters.
