Flames of war Terrain

Friends and i have a scenario planned for next year,its an eastern front game which needed a railway embankment,so with a few days off at christmas i decided to have a go at it earlier than planned.
 Before all this i must apologize for photo quality as the "shed of dreams " isn't great for taking pic's and its been raining for two days here,this coupled with the fact that all terrain according to the wife MUST be done in the shed after the "living room carpet/polystyrene cutting incident of 93."

household coving/cornice based on hardboard

plastic card for the bridge

filling up the gaps with polystyrene.

blue foamboard  added and details drawn on with a pencil to represent ironwork

 I did price up some real model track but its so expensive i brought a bag of  Matchsticks and thin balsa and made my own.

undercoated with black

Grey pumice sprinkled between the tracks with PVA

Larger pumice added for ground work

first coat of paint i used Decoart acrylic "cinnamon brown"

Drybrushed with Dulux "Biscuit"

concrete painted with GW Desert yellow and drybrushed with mid grey and then light grey.The roads painted with Americano "asphaltum" and drybrushed grey.

Holes drill for trees.

Soviet green for ironwork and a touch on concrete.

Vallejio weathering powered "rust" and then drybrushed soviet green mixed with grey.

Grass added 3 shades used all from GW

Holes drilled again and bushes fitted.

Grass added to middle of the tracks.

all done.a few old train models and some half painted KV's for eye candy.

  Took two days in the shed,helped by Christmas cigars red wine and radio 4xtra.

Zvezda 1/144 ju-87

Pick these up at a show last year and while waiting for terrain to dry decided to do them.

Really clean casting,hardly any clean up and the fit is outstanding for a plastic kit and they have to be as their snap fit!!! but i added a bit of super glue just in case.The only complaint i have,if you can have a complaint  at £2.50 a plane:-))))) is the decals No swastika for the tail and No letters only numbers for for the plane id.I used a few left over letters from other models.  

Bagrades plains re-fight

Wargaming friend mark Bullock has been boring us with plans .....sorry working on this game for ages,inspired by an article in practical wargamer wargames mag back in 1999 written by Chris Cope.As fate is a strange thing the same Chris Cope i game with and we were lucky enough to have him playing on the day.
Mark worked hard to get the game as historically correct as was possible using our chosen set of ancient rules "Amarti."
 Mark,Dave and Chris took the roll of Carthaginians and Andy and i the roll of Romans.Basically its a roman race against time to destroy the Carthaginian center before the out numbered roman flanks cave in.
Early turns saw the carth  elephants fighting in an honors even battle with roman skirmishers finally pushing  them aside.Then ploughing onto the roman heavy infantry center with small success.Only one elephant survived and hit the heavy infantry in the flank.meanwhile the far right of the roman heavy infantry had flanked the carth center and was posed for a close end as it depended on initiative dice roll and the winner would get first crack at a flank.
Meanwhile the carth flanks commanded by dave  and supported by Mark had cleared off the last roman resistance(bravely held by Andy for longer than expected)and heading for the rear of the roman center this was going to be close.
The romans rolled well and took the initiative and got first go finally killing the very stubborn carth center commanded by chris who had resisted for 2 turns.Ending the game.

Carthaginian dead at the end of the game

Roman dead at the end of the game

Thanks to Andy and Charleen for hosting and mark for the work in army lists and thankfully ending his endless Carthaginian army list talk year after year after year.:-))) and Dave and Chris for a very close and great game played in great spirit.