Wednesday 18 July 2012

A brief diversion into terrain, part I

For the game at Partizan (of which more, anon), I'm going to need to make up some vineyards, of a type used by the Romans- tall poles, on which the grapes would grow, overhead. A Syrian neighbour built something very similar in his garden, one year.  These need to be able to accomodate troops but also to store away neatly, hopefully 4 to a 7L Really Useful box.


I pushed bamboo skewers through a 5mm sheet of foamcore, on a 70mm grid, to make a template.  I then cut 45mm lengths of skewer as the uprights, and cut beams of spruce and bamboo to go across them.  I stuck everything together with wood glue, it is reasonably rigid, and will become more so, as I plan to reinforce it.


Above are the first 2 frames, of 4 planned.  They are going to be freestanding, so troops can easily be placed under the vines.  A promising start!  Also a nice change from painting and basing.

8 comments:

  1. Interesting. How are you going to make the vines?
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. Hi Paul, I'm thinking some combination of string, thread and clump foliage. It'll be a journey of discovery.

    Cheers, Simon

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  3. Wow! I thought I was the only one who bought foamcore by the sheed!

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  4. Hi Allen, I've never used it very much, but I bought a load recently, am planning to make the Postumian Way out of foamcore!

    Cheers, Simon

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  5. Very nice. I look forward to seeing how these turn out.

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  6. This does look interesting!

    I managed to get hold of about 10 sq metres of foamcore sheets when my company moved office. Jolly useful stuff.

    Regards

    Matt

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  7. I'll be intrigued to see how you do your vines.

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  8. Vines are mostly on, will post a photo later...

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Thanks for commenting. I will post this as soon as I am able to review it.