Building villages for Vietnam.

[Duncan]

I have been playing around wit some green-stuff and balsa wood over the last weekend looking at putting  together a small village base and movement trays that fit nicely into them. Now all I need to do is paint them up and flock them as appropriate. I will post further pictures once I have  done this.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Duncan,

Great start - looking forward to seeing the finished items.

I have made a bunch of polystyrene cores to do something very similar (although I hadn't thought of sticking the buildings on to a 6x6 base already - mine are loose cf. the Peter Pig models) and have been trying to find the time to dress them up with windows, doors and foliage roofs.

I will likewise post photos when I get there!

Best of luck,

Simon

[Stewart 46A]

Nice idea but I wouldn't put to much terrain on them or there won't be room for your little men

[Duncan]

I have made sure that there is enough room on the base to take a full squad of six bases and a command base assuming they are on 2p sized bases. I have made movementvtrays to fit into make sure.

[Duncan]

I have now painted the village. OK, my painting of houses like most things is not up to much, but it is good and relaxing for me (Unlike this laptop's keyboard which keeps missing out letters and spelling stuff wrong.) so that is what counts I think?

I have shown some different combinations of how I have painted it so they look in various orientations.

I have also made some integrated markers for 'Peasants'and 'Search' for which I have worked in a couple of little magnets in an attempt to hold them in place.

Also I made a few 'loot' markers. A base with some electrical equipment for a very high value, two bases with guns for high value and then some with boxes of stuff under wraps for low value. Nothing special there, just using some bits I had lying around.

Anyway, hopefully people will like them.

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[Colonel Kilgore]

Very nice, Duncan - great to see someone take the plunge and make their own unique scenery to such a complete extent.

And I think your efforts to include all the markers within the same scenic setting are great. For me, one of the great attractions of the RFCM games is the "look" of them on the tabletop: credible spacings (e.g. no wall-to-wall tracked vehicles...) and the general absence of "gaming" clutter, since we have "in-scale" markers instead.

Well done!

Simon

[Duncan]

Thank you for your kind words. I do also have some 'official' buildings for jungle settings and may choose to base these, but making my own enabled me to make sure I have enough room to get the figures on even if it takes ages to do  so. I also need to pop to Wilkinsons to see if I can get some more cheap fish tank plastic plants as they make good jungle style plants/ trees and were only £2.50 a real bargain!