This week I'm starting on a regiment of 30 Dutch infantry for Old John but also working on how to represent buildings for my small grid hex board when my standard bases are 60mm x 25mm which doe not leave much room for terrain in a 70mm hex. I now have some lovely Battlescale 6mm models which do look a bit small as expected but I have added a base of 5mm foam board to increase the height slightly and will be painted to match the model. I'm going to paint some today to see how this works and if I feel it acceptable aesthetically for what after all is a boardgame with miniatures.
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| Workbench overview! |
I also did a fairly quick experiment using a semi flat printed house on both sides of a 5mm foamboard core, a suitable image, copied, pasted, flipped o one side then printed and cut out! You can see the result below, I think it scales up well and can be fitted around a base of troops in the hex, probably a couple of such per hex. I'm also working on a church using the same method. Not sure which works best yet but we shall see later this week hopefully.
I received another box of cavalry sprues from Caliver books (nannyog on eBay) and also a set of the Epic Parliamentarian generals in resin which are excellent little sculpts.Can't wait to get them painted.
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| 13.5mm Epic resin! |
Finally I'm looking hit markers for the game and might well use the Warlord Pike and Shot counters (see below) which are great and I have painted up a set for Noel some time back. They have numbers to show number of losses. I did try a crafty copy and print then glue to 20mm disc (below) but think the set wold be worth the £19.00 cost.
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| A crafty copy/paste/print on a 20mm MDF disc! |
Nice progress on the hexed project. Even with the bigger Kallistra hex (100mm), I found the practicality of buildings and units co-existing in the same hex difficult. I like your slim version, a very good idea and perhaps an extension of the thinking behind the Wofun (sp?) perspex flat armies.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I looked at this, I decided to go with the 3D models normally and when occupied, I put a numbered flag in the hex and set the unit aside - off table on a display that matched the flag numbers. Most recently with 28's I have applied this principle to woods. I have made up some solid and dense permanent wood pieces, no way could you get a unit amongst the density of the tree / foliage. The occupant of the wood is kept off table and I treat the wood like a BUA that can only contain one unit at any one time.
So the woods are assaulted from outside (adjacent), if successful, the wood occupants might be ejected and if they are, the attacker can move in.
Now then Norm, you have really given me something to think about there :) Could well be the solution! In C&C there are as I recall 'Garrison' markers so just maybe something as you suggest would work really well here. I'm going to give this some thought and see where it goes. I could even use the more in scale 10mm buildings, oh yes :)
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for that Norm,
Lee.