Pacific in 15mm

 The new BG Pacific War supplement means a couple of figures can move up the painting queue.

20 Minute Challenge - Day 80

Day 80 (16 March)
More modern roadsigns. I have made up a sheet of all the locations in the "First Clash" book and will print these out as required.  For now a couple of different ideas using square and rounded signs (Square are obviously easier to cut out)

20 Minute Challenge - Day 79

Day 79 (15 March)
needed to take a break for the German infantry so had a look at a little bit of modern scatter terrain ideas.

Took the 6mm signs I made up for my 1985 Campaign and rescaled them for 15mm.

Terrrain Tile Project - Phase 1

An overview of the new tiles. I have now decided not to model roads directly on the tile as that caused a number of issues in having to create geomorphic boards.  

Laid out to support the "Clash of Reconnaissance" scenario from the BGK rule book

New Terrain Project

As part of painting up the BG Kursk forces, I have had a re-think on my terrain. So I am trying out the idea of using 2mm thick vinyl floor tiles.

Viewed in daylight

 4x4 layout

 4x4 layout

 Scatter terrain needs a bit more work

 Existing terrain matches reasonably closely

 Reasonably easy to add some additional material onto already made tiles

1985 Campaign - 6mm Terrain (2)

More housekeeping means finding some of the old pictures of my 6mm terrain which is used in the campaign.

Early game on in the 6mm projects life.  A 4 x 4 board at my gaming buddy's house with simple roads and terrain items.  I hadn't made any roads or rail sections at this stage

 Oblique shot of the above

From a slightly different angle

And the other side 

Forward Security Element and Main Body up against 22 Armd Bde

Early shots on the 6" x 6" BUA I shamelessly copied from Timecast since updated with a new scheme

Following a bit of scratch building on the roads and finding out that the Hornby track planning set is a perfect match in this scale.

Roadsigns, again an idea take forward from discussions with Barrie at Timecast during the Reading show.  I found a German font which meant that I could make up anything I wanted and then just print out on card.

Interim playing surface (yes it is a blanket) with some slightly reworked roads

Track planning set with a home made bridge using Plastruct

Which meant I needed a rail crossing

Roughly the amount of rail system I ended up with.

1st Ge Panzer Recce defend the railway embankment

Luchs

Top View

So glad I found these pictures as I thought they were lost when I broke my old PC.  Luckily my backup regime worked. I just forgot where the backups were.

1985 Campaign - 6mm Terrain (1)

My 6mm terrain has had a couple of new additions to it.  Currently looking at a larger BUA with some new houses and an industrial complex.  I need another pack of the light industrial buildings to go on a 6" x 6" tile plus the petrol station needs to be planned.  Means my shopping list for warfare is building up ;)

The road system needs some thought as well to cover both the open road network as well as the BUAs

Great War - Western Front Terrain

As I wanted to use my forces for both Square Bashing and GWSH I looked at some terrain ideas that could be used between the two systems.  This is as far as I have got.  The Trench system is modular and I have done some angular connecting pieces.  I have also knocked out more wire sections which count as difficult terrain in SB.

An idea of the two lead regiments on part of my Western Front terrain. Simple terrain pieces so far, as I gradually get to grips. Eastern Front is my main thing so this will be most definitely work in progress

The thing with both GWSH and SB is that the ground scale doesn't match accurate terrain features such as trenches, so, A bit of artistic license needed.