Finished! Well as done as I going to get them at this point :)
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| Northern Plancenoit - five BUA's sectors. |
I won't be doing as many walls and hedges as planned, as the area to fit the troops in is already small and I don't necessarily need an entirely walled village. Fields and brush will be placed around the perimeter to break up the lines created by the built up areas.
Overall the village came out pretty well; though the "whole" looks a lot better than the individual buildings. But for what it is going to be used for, it is well past good enough!
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| The hedge at the end can be removed for another road opening. |
Each BUA area is roughly a 9" square and I spray painted the road, dirt and grass areas on to a piece of felt. I'll most likely reverse the felt and spray a different pattern so that we can vary the village.
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Time was the issue, so no door on the "city" gate. I can easily also one in at any point.
But thought the village needed a restricted entry/exit as well as an end cap. |
At the last minute I changed one of my buildings to a small church and went 'fancy' by adding color printouts to represent stained glass. It came out alright, but I think I need to figure out how to add a window frame.
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| The walled church area can be used for a particular difficult area to fight over. |
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| When using the plastic stone facings, I need to be more precise with the cuts and do a better job of hiding the joins. |
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| Need to frame that stained glass! |
Most of the other buildings went as planned, though did add an inner gatehouse at the last minute.
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| Hard to see, but the Inner Gate is directly in the back. |
As with all my projects, there are a things I would do differently. First and foremost is to make many of the buildings taller to give them illusion of being a 28mm building. As it is, several of the buildings would work well in a 15mm game :)
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| Some of the buildings are very small, the worst offender is seen above in the center. |
I also used a homemade wash (really just gloried dirty water!), and not sure I like the look. Though I am warming up to it the more I put other terrain on the table. I suppose I should also do a better job of mixing the "ingredients" and perhaps add more brown to it to warm up the color some.
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| The wash used for the wall and buildings was different ... I tried to dry brush the walls to better match the buildings |
The stone wall was much easier to do up than I thought, but next time I will spend more time blending the top and sides together. Kind of expensive using all that plastic, but thought I needed one BUA sector that could represent a fortified area. I had plans to do a wrought iron gate, but just felt it was not worth the time at this point, and I can always add it in later.
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| The gap is noticeable on the right side wall. |
I watched a video by a "railroad guy" on how to do up hedges, and so set out to copy him. Turned out to be a very quick and easy way to turn those blue scrubbing pads into trimmed hedges! I am also thinking about making a gate section as well. Right now they are all unbased which means I'd need to sink the connecting popsicle stick into the bottom of the hedge, very doable just hard on the scissors :)
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| First layer drying ... then the bright stuff will be added. |
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| Hedges complete, some bright green to make them pop on the gaming table. |
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| The hedges are about 1" high and fit well with the 28mm figures. |
I had issues with the new spackling I used. It seems that I was not paying attention and bought a different brand. Many of the buildings sides were much "smoother" than planned. It was also 'wetter' and so may not add as much water and paint next time.
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| The spackling turned out much smoother so I might add some sand next time. |
I got tricky with the last BUA wall section. Instead of two corner sections I combined them with a small strip of cardstock. Pretty flimsy but the building notch in really well.
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| Notched out a section to fit the back building in between two wall sections. |
Again think the village will work very well for our General d'Armee games, and we should have enough BUA's for most games were running now.
Back to miniatures for next project ... another unit of Russian Infantry in greatcoats.
