Stalingrad terrain

[Traffic]

A good chat with Milesat Colours about what I have been working on.  Some generic terrain and the oposing forces for Stalingrad.

This all started from a discussion with my boys' uncle who is a model boat builder and the use of palight as as building material. So I ordered about 10 sheet and 100 scalpel blades.

From there we then started looking for rubble ideas and ruins.

I scratch built the first three buildings and went from there trying out rubble mixes and scatter terrain


4' x 4' board with the scratch built factory in the middle which is gradually taking shape, the residential blocks to the left and then scatter terrain and more rubble applied.


One of Martin's snipers from the "new" Russian pack


Using expanding foam for the base of piles meant I could reduce how much rubble it would take.  Still have to add scatter rubble over the top to hide the edges on the early test pieces.


Some off cuts being put into use for scatter terrain or marking the corners of closed terrain.








Bags of Rubble waiting to be laid on the table (they are now completely intermixed!)


Just testing the concept at this point on the first building


The first one I built using the palite material. Completely impracticable for gaming purposes.  I couldn't get figures inside it so one of the corners was chopped off and the interiors walls changed over as well.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's some great modelling work there, Traffic - thanks for sharing the process you've been through.

Simon

[Traffic]

Some
More terrain ideas. Ranging from DAS clay and a brick roller to painting match sticks and cutting up pieces of off cuts

[martin goddard]

Nice work Si. When do we see it in action?


martin

[Traffic]

Today we have been building chimney stacks. Built from a template I drew in PowerPoint (for ease) to speed things up. Palight is an ideal material to use for scratchbuilding.  One more to build later today after work and then into some more buildings

[Traffic]

So I need three. All done and the first two given a plastic primer undercoat at lunch time

[simmo]

This is wonderful. Groan I tried making Pavlov's house but gave up. Lots of great ideas here. I like the technique of rolling out the Das clay and texturing it with the brick roller. I'm deffo gonna do this. Can I ask where you got it from?

Cheers

Martyn

[Traffic]

I bought it off Etsy. There also some on green stuff world

[Traffic]

So printing out the building templates and fixing them with repositional spray mount means that it is a case of cut and glue which speeds things up immensely with simple box shapes. Theses are slightly over scale but I just want an impression.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's a very slick trick!

Simon

[martin goddard]

This is getting clever. Well done


martin

[Moggy]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192702790926?hash=item2cddfb3d0e:g:3twAAOSwEY1dtB0f&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0JFMsy2AsNc%2BUrMolJNkqsdTlTHefmaY1HtIbLU2CP9hc5onitPlB7impKbJUUZh3169FdAOqcEtYk9jjwpHhDfG0ChTXLXVACfrd%2FV2NijuEX%2Fp%2FdhgWSXYIYijKoh%2FTS9BOEFohpW0jNvekW1gxQILcl8plncIdQpTlobnXztDz6rej3TfHPfRNLpBXrLuhdansDn%2FYyq8PhT99Zp%2FaEZ1w2aB4%2F2LhDu2OA9EtbBYVvDwRwTeW187ygXuLu85Aplgu9eJIaZ%2Bx%2BdYLyg9RNc%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-jSpPfWYg

seem to have a lot of textured rollers that should do the trick.

Derek

[Colonel Kilgore]

The Green Stuff World ones [https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/51-modelling-textured-rolling-pins] look good too.

I have been tempted, but their rollers are often too short to fully cover a standard 6" x 12" RFCM template.

Simon

[Traffic]

Test prints of eye window frames

I can thicken the depth up to 1mm but need to give about a 0.5mm tolerance to account for my poor cutting skills.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Now you are getting fancy! 

Simon