"15mm Frontier Forts?" Topic
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Buckeye AKA Darryl | 17 May 2016 1:07 p.m. PST |
Who else, besides the nice offerings from Blue Moon, make 15mm frontier fortifications suitable for the AWI and F&IW period? Looking for some specific pieces (single story barracks, angled bastions, etc.) that Blue Moon do not have. Thanks!
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Extra Crispy | 17 May 2016 1:35 p.m. PST |
Seems like if nothing else it would be a really easy scratchbuild. |
War In 15MM | 17 May 2016 2:01 p.m. PST |
Even though your posting specifically excluded Blue Moon as not having the single story barracks or angled bastions you are looking for, let me suggest that the Blue Moon wall cabin would serve well as a single story barracks and the angled fort corners offered by Blue Moon can be easily converted to make them into gun positions simply by adding flooring made with Evergreen v-groove plastic. You can see what I did with both of these in pics 35, 36, 37, 42, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, and 92 of my FIW gallery at link |
Buckeye AKA Darryl | 17 May 2016 4:13 p.m. PST |
EC – One would think, but I do not have the space to work on a fort for any length of time…my workspace is the dining room table and my wife would not appreciate my sequestering of that space for an extended Warin15mm – As always, great work! You have given me some hope that perhaps I can pull this off using Blue Moon. I guess if I do not tell anyone what fort it is, anything would be close enough! |
War In 15MM | 17 May 2016 4:35 p.m. PST |
Darryl, when I put my collection together I accepted that I would not be able to replicate either Fort William Henry or Fort Carillon in terms of their actual structure so what I did was add features that were characteristic of the external defenses and siege entrenchment that were central to the battles involving those two forts. That seemed to satisfy my need for historical accuracy and allowed me to make use of the Blue Moon structures which offer some pretty nice looking generic fort options. Good luck with your project. Richard |
Rudysnelson | 17 May 2016 4:56 p.m. PST |
Modeling clay and toothpicks was the old way that we scratch built forts and palisades (or commonly one or two gun firing redoubts in a siege) back in the old days as EC mentioned. Today there are a lot of aides available to help you. |
DinOfBattle2 | 18 May 2016 5:39 a.m. PST |
PaperTerrain has one link |
Anthropicus | 18 May 2016 8:57 a.m. PST |
I've also been looking for these, but in 6mm. Anyone know any that produce them? |
Extra Crispy | 18 May 2016 9:15 a.m. PST |
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Anthropicus | 19 May 2016 7:11 a.m. PST |
Hm… I suppose their 'wild west fort' is pretty close. Thanks. |
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