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ohhhh okay, fair enough!

Just ordered some Woodland Scenics pine tree armatures to feature as my shelled wood.



Also got some dead fall.

Nice stuff in here!

Your 2x2 board is going to look great!

Plus, I never knew about the Woodland Scenics "deadfall" pack - so thanks for that too!

Thanks and glad to be of service on the deadfall issue

Is it just dead sticks?

whalemusic360 wrote:Is it just dead sticks?

Dead sticks that I don't have to go and find and dry

And apparently selected to look appropriate at this scale.

WOW just WOW Nice job on the board, take a look at this http://terranscapes.com/pics/Web%20Ready%20Photos/Barricades%20and%20Obstacles/trenchtops-composite.jpg This may help a bit and the price is right

Mike

How much do said dead sticks cost? I may have just found a new way to make cash....

whalemusic360 wrote:How much do said dead sticks cost? I may have just found a new way to make cash....

Whalemusic , official stick collector

Has a nice ring to it

Well I have 16 achers, I'm guessing there are at least 7 sticks to be had.

I should make cards....

The board is looking good so far, can't wait to see it finished.

I'm trying to work out how to do mine at the moment

whalemusic360 wrote:How much do said dead sticks cost? I may have just found a new way to make cash....

http://pufferwillies.co.uk/uk2ecommerce/product/woodland_scenics_deadfall/

About £3 a pack. You can get them direct from the Woodland Scenics site as well in Americaland.


@madmartykmf - thanks and thanks for the link - though I was just going to use ramped earth abutting the wooden walls with fire channels dug out where the view slits are located.

@ endtransmission - cheers

I'm sure yours will be full of goodness


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And just a small update as I am waiting for loads of glue to dry:

I sealed the edges of the board with masking tape, then used PVA to ensure it stuck down and also reinforced the tape (the tape will eventually get painted over as well):


I also dug out the large corner crater (you can also more clearly see lots more masking tape ):

Another small update - returned home from work and found my pine trees had arrived and so decided to give them a go to create the shelled woods at the rear of the board:





The trees come with their own bases, but I thought I would just stick them into the ground for now. I will probably incorporate their bases into the terrain and then "plug and play" the trees for ease of transport/storage

My wife is going out for a bit tonight, so I will probably make a start at some of the terrain sculpting and finish off digging out the craters.

Looks great Silver! Only suggestion I would make is buy some more trees. It looks a little sparse right now, but a few more would make it look less like random trees and more like a dense forest. Just a thought

Awesome project though, can't wait to see it all finished.

Mike

Thanks for your comments - I have loads more trees, so I will do so

I was going to add a few more in around the edges, but as the edge is covered in dry PVA, I could not put any into the foam.

I'm also going to do a few chopped up and broken trees to add variation.

Also have the deadfall trees to add in when they arrive, so it will be quite busy on that edge

Awesome board. Watching with interest

Awesome Your project reminds me of the Battle Of The Bulge in Bastogne. Check this out

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/45th_Division_roadblock,_Battle_of_the_Bulge.JPG&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45th_Division_roadblock,_Battle_of_the_Bulge.JPG&usg=__0mLC4j9e-WTmXfhISGDByur9KE4=&h=2171&w=2716&sz=662&hl=en&start=51&zoom=1&tbnid=wglqosclYK0OIM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=181&ei=joZITe-wPInbgQeP3tSwBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbattle%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bbulge%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D621%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1632&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=637&oei=hIZITb-9Ks33gAeYneneBQ&esq=4&page=4&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:51&tx=86&ty=48&biw=1280&bih=621


Are you thinking snow?

Mike

@ Flashman - cheers

@ Mike - I will admit that the Band of Brothers episode set in Bastogne did cross my mind

Regards the colours... I was going to make it an arid arctic desert/tundra, so there might be a bit of snow dashed around.

Well that looks and sounds like it is going to be awesome!

Mike

Cheers Mike

Anyway, just going to go off and do a bit more work on the board. Hope to update later on tonight.

The wife and I have managed to catch some kind of plague and are both off work today. In between tending to her, being ill and generally feeling "mler" I have been working a bit more on my board.

The sand is not dry yet and is not completely covering the board, but I thought I would get a few pictures to show you how it is getting on.

The front rampart:


The rear bombed out entrance:


The board as a whole:


A "simulation" of what it looks like with some trees added:




C&C appreciated as usual.

I looks good Silver! I am liking it a lot more now that the trees are in place. I think you probably are already planning this but are you going to add debris and carnage to the board? I am excited to see you get some paint on it.

Great job,

Mike

I will be raiding my bits box for a few choice pieces to add to the landscape. I also spent some time creating some poles to add barbed wire strings to yesterday, though I will have to create some more barbed wire, as I only have enough to do a small section of fence.

The shelled wood will also have plenty of blown apart trees from the deadfall pack.

Loving your board Silver , just what i need also:-)

Awesome board, the progress looks really good! Can't wait to see more.

@ neil - just what you need? You are going to steal by board?!?!



@ Stretch - thanks; I hope to get the rest of the sand and such like on the board either tonight or tomorrow.

And I went in to speak to the head beard at my local GW today (which is now on my way home from work - yay!) and he said they had still not got a date on when they will be running the event, but they were hoping they would know by the end of the week and they were probably looking at the end of March still (though he also said it may also vary from store to store).

A small amount of progress on the board today: Finished adding sand (I hope ) to the main board area. Really heaped it on and it is still drying, so it is not quite as bumpy as it looks here. Also started adding really small amounts of glue along the tops of some of the cross pieces inside the trench to look like sand has settled there over time. I will eventually do this to the whole trench, but there was way too much loose sand around to be able to do much of this at the moment. I will also be giving the trench floor a similar treatment at a later date.

Anyway, some pictures!










Also, as an aside, I have been doing a bit of work to my counts as plague tower. The yellow/tan gun is the plague mortar and the green turret will have 2 demolisher cannons mounted on it. The pus cannon will be mounted where the broken assault ramp is located at the front. Lots more tubes and green stuffing will take place to make it a bit more nurgle.

Also, ignore the stupid face at the front - I was just messing around

Great work Silver. Very impressive kit bash as well

Mike

Cheers Mike. I hope to integrate them more with 40k gubbins etc.

Shook off the majority of the sand today and patched up a couple of bits where there was not enough coverage.

Put the trees on and some models to simulate what I was thinking of doing. There are 2 squads of 10 guardsmen, and 1 HQ squad. I might add in some sentinels or a tank or something, but I will wait until I have painted up the board a bit more until I decide. Also need to make up a whole load of heads and other equipment to add onto the guardsmen.

If I can't do that, the CSM will be coming out to play

Anyway, on to the pictures!


Advancing through the shelled forest to reinforce the line.




The Eldar watch the silly humans and their pitiful defenses.


The commander watches the new cannon fodder arrive.


A sentry keeps watch over the shelled entrance.





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Two updates in such a short space of time? Impossible!

I have been busy with the old airbrush, colouring in the craters and adding a bit of variation to the sand colour as well (desert yellow to be exact ). Also sprayed the guardsmen I would be using and, for poops and giggles, did a first coat on some of my (many) sentinels.


Note to self: undercoat everything white, not black