Saturday 23 October 2021

Terrain month: 28mm Artillery position

 Hello mates,


I read on Twitter that October was indeed #Terraintober, a month in which a wargamer should paint a piece of scenery, so I thought about my half built earthworks that have been laying around for months and started working on that unfinished project (from a long list of unfinished projects!).

So here it is, I just have finished the artillery position from scratch, made of expanded polystyrene, beach sand, wooden stirring sticks /balsa wood and Renedra's plastic gabions. I added Warfare Miniatures  "Chevaux de Frisie" and also some bits from good old Warhammer 6th edition Empire cannon.

It has been a pretty easy project, with just some basic airbrush and drybrush paintjob.






 

I added also some static grass because the whole thing seemed a littled boring to me, just in earthy brown tones. Also the details here and there break the monotony. 


the building was easy and fun, although not as quick as I initially thought, because of the 2 part plastic gabions. I built the artillery position before getting my 3d printed gabions... So next time I build earthworks, I will use my 3D printed gabions and my recently ordered Avanpost positions !




For the sand, I mixed PVA glue with beach sand from my area, and art store cheap brown paint and covered the whole thing (but the gabions and wood!) then just I airbrushed the main colours with Vallejo paints thinned with airbrush thinner (Ammo Mig) and It worked perfectly, the Vallejo Model Color range is fully "airbrushable" I recommend it for terrain and big things.


Here is the finish result with different miniatures just  to give an idea of the size 








I hope you like it !



10 comments:

  1. That looks great Jose…
    It will work well with armies from the 16th through to the 19th century.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly! You are right, I like my scenery to be versatile, so you can put your troops of the Italian wars, Tercios, ECW or Napoleonics or ACW.

      Cheers!

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  2. Excellent piece! Your lovely minis make for a really attractive vignette.

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  3. Excellent modelling Jose. It looks brilliant!

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    1. many thanks :D I'm on the mood of more scenery of this kind!

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  4. Inspiring piece of work- I should really make a couple of those myself.

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    1. Thanks Codsticker, you should! they are not difficult to made, it is one of the easiest terrain element you can make, and the result worth the effort.
      Cheers

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