| Arteis02 | 03 Aug 2019 4:39 p.m. PST |
At first glance, this could be a wartime newspaper photo of Dutch soldiers defending a village during the German invasion in May 1940 … until you spot the figure bases, that is, and realise this is a wargames table with 28mm figures.
I've posted pictures of this miniature village and info on how I went about it, here on my blog: link Here are some sample pics from the blog:
More pics and info on my blog here: link |
 Old Contemptible  | 03 Aug 2019 7:19 p.m. PST |
Did you do any modifications to the buildings or is this is how they look out of the box? Really nice set up. What brand figures are your Dutch? |
| Arteis02 | 03 Aug 2019 8:50 p.m. PST |
I did do some modifications, mainly to add more realistic windows and doors. The Dutch figures are by May '40 Miniatures. |
| donlowry | 04 Aug 2019 9:14 a.m. PST |
Even without the bases, the figures are a bit large for the buildings. |
| LostPict | 05 Aug 2019 4:52 p.m. PST |
What a great project. This is so tempting. I saw that you can buy printed buildings in 1/50th. How hard would it be to scale these up? |
| 79thPA | 06 Aug 2019 6:45 a.m. PST |
Fantastic job. Are the buildings HO platics? |
| Thresher01 | 07 Aug 2019 7:07 a.m. PST |
Very nice looking buildings. They appear to me to be more suitable to 1/72nd scale though. |
 Bobgnar | 07 Aug 2019 6:47 p.m. PST |
Very nice layout and figure collection. I have been wanting a WW2 Dutch Landsverk armored car so I followed your link to May '40 Miniatures and find it out of production :( |
| Arteis02 | 08 Aug 2019 9:52 p.m. PST |
The buildings would be dead easy to print out at larger or smaller scales. All you need to know is how to resize an image! Personally, I prefer buildings with smaller than true scale foorprints for my wargames terrain, so I always go for a scale a bit smaller than my figures. |
| Brownand | 08 Aug 2019 11:31 p.m. PST |
Afaik the landsverk is not out of production but out of stock.
contact May40 when they will have new stock |
| Arteis02 | 10 Aug 2019 4:35 a.m. PST |
Windmill added:
More info here: link |
| Arteis02 | 31 Aug 2019 2:16 a.m. PST |
Update pic. Now includes canal and bridge, back gardens for the row-houses, a church …:
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| Arteis02 | 31 Aug 2019 2:40 p.m. PST |
By the way, some people have asked why I use 1/72 scale buildings with 28mm figures. The answer is that I prefer my houses to have a small footprint, as they then don't dominate the table as much. In any case, wargamers usually play with underscaled trees, rivers and hills, so also having smaller buildings makes sense. |
 deadhead | 01 Sep 2019 2:38 a.m. PST |
Love that last picture. We all know WWII was fought in monochrome, unlike the Napoleonic Wars. Never mind the scale difference between buildings and figures. Compare the difference between 28mm figures and most wargame tables of waterloo. Let us say two miles wide, reduced to 1/56 scale….that is one large table |
| May40miniatures | 04 Sep 2019 1:59 a.m. PST |
Fallschirmjäger Kickstarter is live!!!!
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looks at how these pre-painted buildings are packaged.
