"Salute - The Wilhelmstahl 1762 Table" Topic
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 Artilleryman  | 18 Apr 2016 5:04 a.m. PST |
Back from Salute. Always fun, especially talking to the like-minded and those with so much more talent than oneself. Was it even bigger this year? It seemed to be but the time flew by. Anyway, I was extremely impressed with Bill Gaskin's fictitious 'Wilhelmstahl 1762' table. The figures were great, but the converted Faller HO scale buildings were particularly impressive. Sadly I did not get a chance to talk to those who did the conversions (Mike Carson and Robert Card?). Did anyone else get to do so and know what they did to convert the model railway buildings to such spectacular wargames 28mm buildings? If Mike or Robert read this forum, can you illuminate me? In short, I was inspired! |
| Timmo uk | 18 Apr 2016 9:00 a.m. PST |
Obviously I can't speak of either of them but having spent a lot of time talking to the Wilhelmstahl team I think I'm right in saying that the buildings were Bill's work. Essentially the backdating involved cutting away the ground floor fronts that tended to be modern shops and replacing with scratch built sections. Archways etc were added in places. Even though they are at 1:87 scale I think they worked extremely well with the figures and the slightly smaller size worked well to enable a large section of town/city to be modelled. I thought it was both fabulous and quite beautiful – probably the best looking game I've ever seen. I also loved the middle section of the table that reminded me of Capability Brown landscape with the trees and gentle valley. So many games are just on flat boards with the odd lump to represent a hill but this was very well done. Truly inspirational. |
| Duc de Limbourg | 18 Apr 2016 1:39 p.m. PST |
Agree,
one of the best games I ever saw, terrain, city and figures were the top. Everything fitted in. |
| tshryock | 18 Apr 2016 6:31 p.m. PST |
Anyone have any pictures of this amazing table? |
 Condotta | 18 Apr 2016 8:40 p.m. PST |
Scroll down to the next to last set of photos: link |
| Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond | 20 Apr 2016 11:03 a.m. PST |
I agree it was a stunning table. I managed to talk to Bill (a very friendly and enthusiastic gentleman) they were Faller models the main alterations (from memory) were changing the doors to be 25-28mm adding wire mesh behind the windows to give a leaded glass effect and painting. He said painting on the spriue and touching up after was quicker than painting when built. There's probably more but those were the main points that I remember. |
| mindenbrush | 22 Apr 2016 3:33 p.m. PST |
I assume it was loosely based on the real Battle of Wilhelmstahl 1762 link as I ran the same battle at Historicon'98 and there was no large town involved.
Excellent looking terrain, I just need to win the lottery to be able to somewhere big enough to store something similar :-)
I understand Bill sculpts and casts his own figures. Add that to the terrain and he is definitely very talented. |
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