Sadly these were not the words uttered by my wife on our wedding night but it’s broadly what she said when she saw the fully assembled engine shed she’d bought me for my birthday. And she’s not wrong. It’s going to form part of the terrain for my VBCW lads to fight over but the size of this and the warehouse (which is taller and bigger) has forced a bit of a rethink. The individual terrain tiles I’d purchased are not going to cut the mustard (individually too small) so after Xmas I’m going to the Brico for a metre square piece of insulation board that I’ll cut into bigger chunks. The engine shed and the associated track can sit on one section while everything else remains movable on smaller pieces.
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| Oooh ‘eck it’s big. 28mm chap included for scale. Top comes off and doors open so you can fight inside it too. |
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| T’other end. |
Also in the same vein we have 10 new combatants from the Albertine faction (he became George VI in our world) who I’ve begun to disparagingly refer to as the Rotary Club Rifles. The name might not stick.
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| A poor quality picture, soz. I particularly like the crouching figure on the right with the Brompton FC scarf and the German Maxim 08. |
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| Here’s a better picture. Odd how you sometimes get a favourite figure isn’t it? |
Finally to go with the engine shed you need an engine. Here’s mine, very much under construction. Although this is a civilian loco there are a decent selection of armored ones (eastern front?) in the same Sarissa range.
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| Should look okay when it’s got the coal wagon thingy on the back. |
What else is there to show you. Ahh yes..
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| A nice bit of barbed wire |
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| Fuel drums courtesy of my mates at TEMU I think. |
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| Homemade rubble pile number 1. A good use of all the MDF off cuts and sprue. |
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| Lots and lots of wall to duck behind. |
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| A big old water tower with a ladder on the far side o gain access to the top. Nice kits with a decent bit of heft to them. Assembling them like the plastic 100YW infantry is a bit of a ball ache, but you can’t have the halfpenny and the bun now can you? |
It’s entirely possible that I’m getting more fun out of making all this than I will playing with it, but we’ll see. Found myself looking at Battletech Alpha Strike on the internet yesterday. No Broom. Bad Broom. Broom must stay focussed.
Toodleooh for now mes amis.
A good mix of terrain there Mark, ditto the new faction for your AVBCW milieu:). Always tricky with big buildings of bits of terrain, as to whether dropping down a scale would work or not. Normally it's OK to do this visually, but when you then need to place figures inside, it tends to become a problem, mainly due to the bases 'getting in the way'. As for staying focussed, well I couldn't possibly comment;)!
ReplyDeleteHey Steve, dropping down a scales not really necessary I don’t think, cos like you say it could get a bit fiddly squeezing the guys into rooms. Focus on this project has been re established. 100%. There’s no way I’m going to start something else. No way.
DeleteThat is bally large, what!
ReplyDeleteAgree with you on the crouching chap with the Maxim. He’s seen some action in Flanders no doubt.
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Hey Chris, he’s seen some action no doubt, but how he’s ended up with a Maxim is anyone’s guess.
DeleteGreat looking terrain, that engine shed is massive! Nice bloke with the maxim, can't really say much about the rest, your scatter terrain is ace and if you're having fun assembling the terrain and marshalling tge troops, does it matter if you don't play the game? Discuss? You have form oon walking out on a project and starting something entirely different, just saying?!
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Hi Iain, I do have form in moving on to some degree don’t I. Truth is that being retired I get a lot of games in during a month - but only usually post twice on the blog over the same period. By the time I get around to writing something up it’s often a distant memory and doesn’t seem relevant. Trust me I’m far too mean to spend out on a project and not milk it for everything it’s worth. The 100YW stuff for example hasn’t been kicked into the long grass…I played a game yesterday with them using lion rampant rules instead of the billhooks ones. When it came to writing today’s post I thought the progress on the VCBW stuff would be more interesting. Maybe jumping around so much from subject to subject is a mistake? I’ll give it some thought.
DeleteThe "true" 28mm scale buildings always look huge, don't they? I think we are all used to model railway scale terrain. I do sometimes question if the mdf stuff really is all to scale...looking at the railway tracks in comparison to the 28mm figure, for example, everything about the tracks looks too big...the sleepers and the gauge?
ReplyDeleteHey Keith, the scale issues are not helped by the fact that the VBCW figures are closer to 25/26mm than 28’s. They are also what I’d describe as “slight” in stature (no overlarge heads or hands like bunches of bananas). The railway sleepers are 50mm x 6mm so I don’t know how that equates to real life size ones? The same slight scale discrepancy is noticeable in the lorry from the previous post. I suspect some exagération has been built in to accommodate the 28’s that are becoming more like 30’s these days. Hey ho - I’ll just have to try and make the best of it I guess.
DeleteAll looking good, the engine shed is a nice model and I like its ‘presence’, I think once everything is on the table it will all look right, I find during play, the eye quickly settles about such things, it is only the cruelty of photography and staring into photographs that ever makes us doubtful ……. It’s all that pondering :-) - also barbed wire looking good.
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