"Scenery for 10mm Franco-Prussian War" Topic

Specifically fences, field borders and anything else other than buildings (for which I am using the lovely 6mm Timecast models and some German railway buildings in I think N or Z scale). Did the 1870s French countryside have fences, stone walls and/or planted windbreaks? Bocage seems to have been a Normandy thing, but presumably something was used to delineate fields – or maybe not.

I would be very interested to hear what you use. Also What other scatter terrain is typical of that location and period? Thanks in advance.

Can't speak 100% to 1870s French countryside but fences, stone walls and planted windbreaks are not features you find in northern France. Fields are typically quite open with no barriers to movement across them. Having grown up on a farm in New Zealand originally, the difference was very noticeable. Woods and copses are common. Rivers are often lined with bushes and trees There was bocage-like terrain in some places, for example in the Franco-Belgian border region but not like Normandy. Much of it has been cleared post-WW1.

Robert

Some calvaries – wayside crosses – would be a nice feature, especially at crossroads.

Thank you for your responses! I guess the northern french landscape has undergone significant changes since the 1870s.