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[Terrain]¶
Modular Fence System¶
In our recent game (and first ever) of Warfork Fantasy Battles - Warhammer for Adults it became apparent that my supply of linear obstacles is quite limited - the walls you see on the photos in the AAR are all that I have. Among them only three corner pieces and no gates. Also, I do not have any sections to represent destroyed parts - which would have been of use with the cannon rules. Besides, these walls were done around 1998 - a time when my skill was a lot less developed than today.
Lets do some terrain!
What I do not like about many linear obstacles that you find pictures of online or which are even available to buy, is to recognize them as linear wargame modules. To illustrate what I mean lets take a look at the first fences I built for Warhammer 40,000 many many years ago:
The way the fence posts are placed is not as you would find them in reality, the posts would be evenly spaced, not two near each other as where two sections meet in the model fence.
So when designing my new fantasy fences, I thought of how to design them to disguise the obvious joins of the sections. The joins will be visible anyway, as there will be a physical join and I probably will not manage to line them up perfectly - what I am trying to achieve is to not have the joins obvious at first glance.
In the end I settled for the following design (designed in OpenSCAD):
The idea is, that the half posts on both ends join up to form a full post, like in the following two pictures:
The balsa wood for the posts and logs is ordered, the base plates I plan to get from the local DIY store. I will ask for sheets of 5mm MDF in 6" width - this way all the sections will have the same width. The long sides I will then cut by hand to get them in irregular shapes.
Let's see how this will turn out.
Published 2015-07-28 10:28:34
28mm | Fantasy | Linear Obstacle | OpenSCAD | Terrain
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[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶
The wall sections are cleared of flash...
as well as the tower levels.
Published 2015-07-04 10:46:55
28mm | Terrain | Trazior Underhive | Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation
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[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶
The girders supports were all deflashed, which took forever. The outsides were quickly done, but all the insides... When I was finally done I glued them together. I used Lego blocks and an additional baseplate loosely fitted on top to get them straight.
The top row are the ones where I cut the pins in half, the lower row are with uncut pins. I am missing one girder, probably still in the big box...
The support beams were just a matter of minutes to remove the flash.
I now started with the wall section, which are quite quick compared to the girders, as there are only 4 smooth sides to deflash.
Published 2015-06-22 09:27:32
28mm | Terrain | Trazior Underhive | Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation
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[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶
I am quite far with my rules medley "Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation", a mix of the original Confrontation rules as published in White Dwarf, Stargrunt II (main mechanics), Necromunda (mainly the campaign stuff) and Rogue Trader 40,000. Far enough, that the first play test can happen soon - only over which terrain?
Time to use the plastics from the Maki Games Kickstarter to create parts of Trazior Underhive.
I sorted all the parts and started to remove the flash from the support beams.
The whole first batch.
The pins fill the complete height of the base plates. I can imagine layouts with walkways on the second story, where I would need to stack two support beam pieces - which would not be possible (see next picture). So I decided to cut the pins down to just below half length. This will lessen their hold, but allow stacking.
Top shows the original length pins, which are not stackable; the bottom shows the cut pins which stack nicely.
All the work done today. The pile in the lower right is the cut off plastic.
Published 2015-06-13 09:53:22
28mm | Terrain | Trazior Underhive | Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation
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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶
The undead Kampfgruppe is done:
More detailed pics can be seen on my webpage.
Published 2015-05-30 09:35:19
28mm | Blackball Games | Studio Miniatures | Warlord Games | Wehrmacht | Weird War II
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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶
The rest of the models is done except the Dr. and the grass on the bases:
The green hoses didn't look so good after all, so I repainted them in grey.
Published 2015-05-11 20:56:00
28mm | Blackball Games | Studio Miniatures | Warlord Games | Wehrmacht | Weird War II
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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶
The officer is done.
- 70.950 black
- 1/2 70.871 leather brown 1/2 H2O
- 70.862 black grey
- 70.869 Basalt grey drybrush lower half
- 70.951 white drybrush lower quarter
Published 2015-05-05 19:51:00
28mm | Blackball Games | Studio Miniatures | Warlord Games | Wehrmacht | Weird War II
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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Squat Stunty Scout¶
A chance find recently on ebay, this lovely little one just had to be bought :-) A blast from the past.
He will support my Brotherhood sappers I finished recently.
Published 2015-04-20 23:19:00
28mm | Games Workshop | SiFi | Squats | Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules
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[Modern]¶
Shotgun Joe¶
While looking for miniatures I could use to convert to 40,000 militia/gangers, I thought I could give the WWII american infantry from Warlord Games a try, as they could be easily converted. I ordered one model through Mega Bitzshop to check on its size. Luckily I did so, because the model is way too small compared to GW, probably 25mm vs 32mm scale.
So I decided to use the model as an addition to my modern characters. I cut away all the webbing and the obviously WWII style boots.
I then used putty to resculpt the areas into plain cloth.
The shotgun arm I left off for ease of painting.
Published 2015-04-20 23:10:00
2010's | 28mm | Games Workshop | Mega Bitzshop | Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules | Warlord Games
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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶
I highlighted the skin with dead flesh and the bandages with white. The eyes and teeth were painted white, as were the skulls on some of the models where the skin already rottet away.
The bone and teeth will get a brownish wash. I am unsure if I will leave the eyes as is or add a wash to give them a more defined outline.
Published 2015-04-20 22:49:00
28mm | Blackball Games | Studio Miniatures | Warlord Games | Wehrmacht | Weird War II
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