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Thanks all! More coming tomorrow....

A quick post for today, nothing in-depth. I've been struggling with urban roads since I started the 15mm terrain project and ran across someone mentioning using faux patterned leather as stand-ins for cobblestone roads. Oddly, we had about 3 yards of good quality faux leather we'd ordered about 6 years ago for a home decorating project that never got done - bingo.

More pics below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2015/02/15mm-cobblestone-roads.html

Another quick update for today, this time I've done up some snow-covered woods using after-Christmas clearance trees and felt fabric. More pics and info at the link below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2015/02/snow-covered-woods.html

By the 1930s, much of Europe was criss-crossed with a wide array of telegraph and telephone overhead wires.Usually located alongside roads and rails, often at the edges of cultivated fields, communication line poles quickly became rocky and overgrown. As such, they make great linear obstacles that provide useful concealment to infantry and AFVs alike.

Tutorial below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2015/02/tutorial-15mm-telephonetelegraph-lines.html

Some awesome looking stuff, great work.

In an attempt to add more Western European terrain, I went back and re-did the French Chateau I'd painted back in August. I gave it a larger base of 2mm MDF and built it up with successive layers. I then smoothed everything out some spackle and glue mixture. I then added stucco walls made from basswood strips. The gate is large basswood rod cut to size, with shingles made from thin cardboard, and gate doors from an HO scale factory doors. I used Milliput to sculpt a longer driveway and walkway leading to a Faller HO scale greenhouse.

More pics below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2015/03/french-chateau-redeux.html