Rivers

More scenery work using floor tiles

Owing to my pathetically small tabletop I didn't need too many sections to give me a reasonable amount of river

The large tile at the top of the picture will be used to represent a harbour area, lake or open sea, the two wider tiles running off that are for wide river sections, estuary, etc

Painted and flocked and now to see how much room it all takes up on the tabletop

With additional scenery

I'm working on building a new tabletop design more of the same size as my old one and hope to have it completed for the summer holidays; we'll see :)

WIP - Buildings

Got back into a bit of scenery over the weekend

Good size this one, but will probably add a floor to the second level

Another Airfix resin one on the go too. I bought this from a rather sad little hobby store when I was in the city last week, I sort of felt sorry for them and nabbed this for $23 on my way out; usually I won't pay any more than $20 for one of these, x2 for $20 would be more like it :)

I actually quite like these models but you don't see them on sale often enough.

Vickers Medium MkII

Reinforcements for my Home Guard units and other Operation Sealion type stuff continue with this addition 

Six parts in total

Research suggests that anything armoured would have been used in the event of an invasion, including training vehicles and other equipment regardless of their age or design

Some of these saw active service in the Western Desert and the Far East, though quite a few were sold to foreign nations before the outbreak of WW2. Officially, this was still in service around the time Sealion was being planned

Usual Vallejo paintwork, decals a mixture of early cruiser ones, and a couple from a WW1 Whippet. 

Post Office

This was originally part of a very large railway building, that I have since broken down into three smaller ones.

I'm trying to build up my collection of buildings with smaller footprints

Could easily represent other building as well, which is why I made the mailboxes free standing.

A present from Col

A visit to my friend Col saw me come away with this most excellent Osprey edition on the New Zealand land wars; a subject I probably should have paid more attention to in school :)

These are superb books, accurately researched and brilliantly illustrated. Great reading!

Cheers Col!

Beaverette Armoured Car

Had this on the go for a while now. A nice little resin model from Frontline; all of x3 parts

Made crew from donor figures, the Bren gun is from the Imex Korean War set

Added ammo pouches to the crew, not that you really see them

Was looking at doing some more early war stuff in the future and have been doing a lot of research around Operation Sealion, as this will provide a number of interesting 'what if?' scenarios using all my favourite kit

Added a rolled tarp,  Jerry-cans and a spade from the bits box, decals from S-Models, Cruiser kit

These were mostly used by Home Guard and RAF units during the early war years. Eventually nearly 3000 were produced and included a number of Mks with different combinations of kit and armaments, including radio sets, Boys anti tank rifles and Vickers medium machineguns.

Japanese Trucks

A nice little contribution from Dave

I've only made a couple myself, but Hasegawa make very nice kits

I think these are mediums, each truck can carry two stands

Dave's kits are always tidy in construction and paint work

Always nice to see something different.

Houses from Scrap

A couple of houses made from bits and pieces

None of the wall sections are the same, the roof is made from old credit cards 

This one is a bit tidier, if brighter

Standard two platoon size footprints.

Roads

The scenery projects continue...

Last of the floor tiles from Paul, plus a few sourced from the local hardware store

Undercoated with grey primer

Edges, the double size tiles are to represent motorway or dual carriage sections 

Here's where CD breaks down a bit, at an inch to fifty yards this road is almost one hundred meters wide! Depending on how picky you are with the rules in a built-up-area it is possible for units to be unable to fire at each other across the street owing to a two inch range rule in such terrain - we solved this by extending the distance to five inches, same in jungles. Still, it's all abstract anyway

The black tile on the crossroads can represent a BUA where space is limited, and many CD players use this, with perhaps just one or two houses standing in for the entire village, as shown in the picture below

This is more like the BUA we prefer, something that can accommodate multiple units in and around it, without the whole area becoming a crowded mess, and can actually be fought over. However, table size dictates pretty much everything.