A Little Retail Therapy

Hi All,

Took a little trip over to my local wargames show on Sunday morning. The WMMMS show held at Aldersley Leisure Centre Wolverhampton is a great little show that attracts about 50 traders and a load of demonstration and participation games. It was nice to meet toxicpixie from the SMP forum who was putting on a 10mm Indochina CWC game. Also met the guys from Stoke Wargames and will be spending Friday nights at their club premises in Longton.

Got a few bits, mainly bases and dice. The main reason for the trip was to try and get some hills for Crisis Point 2 - Arctic Strike and I picked up some nice pieces from Lancashire Games and Kallistra.

These are the hills from Kallistra, I will probably get some more of these as I like the escarpment detail along one side of each hill. 

Cheers

R

The Road Goes Ever On And On

Been busy today putting the finishing touches to some of the roads for Crisis Point 2. Inspired by a recent purchase from Fat Franks I have produced about 12ft of roads for the Bodo table. I am working on the E6 which I plan to make slightly wider and I only need about 6ft.

The roads from Fat Franks add about another 12-14ft so when I have finished the E6 I should have enough roads for the 14' x 6' table.

Coast III

Update on the coast sections I have been making for the Crisis Point 2 weekend in April. Now finished 14 sections so nearly there. I think I will just need to make one more section to link it to the southern table edge but until I have managed to lay it out in full I won't know.

I have been documenting the process on how I made these and will post them as soon as possible. Need to try and set up the whole layout just to check what I have left to do. Next up is rivers and roads, especially the E6.

Coast II

Four more coastline sections nearly complete, just some touching up to finish and the Leven Miniatures lighthouse needs painting. I have been asked by Ian S to do a step by step guide on how I made these so as I have three more just started I have begun to photograph each stage and when I have completed them I will post the step by step guide. I have a few more Leven Miniatures lighthouses so I hope to add them to add to the coastline feel.

More to come soon including the step by step guide to my coastline sections.

Coast

During construction of the old WWII emplacement I hit upon the idea of creating a coastline that could be laid onto a battlemat. So as I am responsible for the Bodo table for this years Crisis Point 2 weekend I though I would build enough pieces to allow the fjord to extend along way along the table to give plenty of options for amphibious landings etc. Here is the coastline so far, three modules completed with one more WIP. More are cut ready as I think I will need about 16ft-18ft of coastline eventually.

Aerial view of WIP coastline

Abandoned WWII gun emplacement along the Norwegian coast 

View along coast

Possible landing point for WP amphibious forces

Lots more to do including lighthouses from Leven Miniatures and a large bridge.

Coastal Gun Emplacement

Picked this up on ebay. I thought it might look good on the Bodo table for next years Crisis Point game. One problem is the flat back to the model so I am going to base it and then build the back up to represent a rocky outcrop.

Coastal Gun Emplacement 

View showing the flat back which needs building up

In the Bunker Again!

Been a bit busy recently but managed to get some terrain bits finished for Crisis Point 2013. Finished a few more bunkers plus a few scratch built ammo stores and underground shelters to represent abandoned WWII bunkers found throughout Norway.

Two abandoned WWII bunkers to be used as strongpoints in Crisis Point 2013

Two more bunkers

A couple of scratchbuilt abandoned gun emplacements

Scratchbuilt underground ammo bunker

Scratchbuilt underground storage bunker

Storage shelter

Two first aid tents, found these on the internet available for download. If anyone wants a copy let me know

Fields boundaries, there doesn't seem to be many hedges in Norway!

Some more field boundaries, lots more to do!

A couple of T55's advance across a couple of fields.

Bunkered!

Just a quick update. Picked these up for £4.00 from Chris Steadman on the SMP Forum. There were 8 in total. I think they were originally designed for Sci-Fi games but with Crisis Point 2013 in mind I thought they would look good as abandoned WWII bunkers that can be found all over Scandinavia.

So I decided to work on one first.

The original model before its rework.

The model once it has been based and some ground scatter, flock and vegetation to give the slightly overgrown look

A rear view of the bunker.

There are 7 more in production plus some scratchbuilt ammo bunkers and aa gun emplacements to add to the Norwegian countryside. More soon..... 

If you go down to the woods today...

Picked up these two walled woods from a well known auction site for a bargain price. Although very pleased with the trees as you can see from the picture the bases were just bright green plastic so needed a bit of work to fit it with the terrain for Crisis Point 2013.

I repainted the green areas of the base with a more suitable shade of green leaving the walls as they had a good paint finish. After that fine turf flock was applied to the green areas and chinchilla sand was applied to the entrances to the field and along the outside edges to tie them in to the other terrain items I have been working on. I added a bit more fine turf in patches around the edges and then added some self adhesive leafy shrub plants I found from a supplier on Ebay. So now they are ready to be placed on the tables of Crisis Point 2013 - Arctic Strike.