Fenced in garden

I just finished up a new terrain piece, a fenced in garden for my 20mm-28mm Chain of Command terrain.

Start by cutting a base of MDF board and sanding the sides and edges for blending.

Take some corrugated card and glue it in the center of the base and let dry.

then cut pieces of balsa wood and glued them around the card but first cut a piece of paper the same size that the square around the fence would be and trace the square around the card to make sure the posts are square and the pieces line up.

Next take some coffe sturrers and cut them to size and glue them to the balsa wood for your fence post. I used this old wicker like shade pieces that I had, that's a little thicker than coffe sturrers but they should work just fine, or you could use some smaller pieces of balsa wood.

Grout or sand for texture.

After it's dry spray paint black for your under coat.

Paint and flock.

I still have to add some plants to the garden. Let me know what you guys think any feed back would be great! If you have any questions feel free to email me.

New terrain piece (hedge field)

I've been making some new terrain for my CoC game I'm putting on at a convention coming up (havoc).

I started by just cutting a piece of MDF board to the size I was looking for and taking some corrugated card and cutting a piece smaller than the MDF so it would fit evenly in the middle. Glue that and put something on top of it to keep some pressure on it wile it drys . Next take some grout and texture the whole thing around the card to blend it into the base then add your sand for further texture. After that's dryed paint the dirt. I used a dry brush of flat brown then beige brown and tan earth .paint the corrugated card. I painted mine in flat earth then a brown wash. Let the wash dry completely and then dry brush in flat earth again. Next dry brush some kaki and then Iraqi sand to high light the top.

I then cut some green furnace filter and shaped it to hedges cutting all right angles and play with it until you think it looks right. I would have liked to use some rubberized horse hair but I'm currently in the searching process for that now.  After you shape them you want to spray paint them flat brown and then a tan color along the tops to give them some contrast.

Flock around the edges and then attach your hedges.

I used Tac glue which seems to hold them tight into place. Let them dry for a wile and then tape the middle and the path ways and your ready to flock the hedges.

Take some water and PVA glue in a spray bottle and spray down the hedges and add flock and let dry over night. Take your tape off and you have your piece! Make sure you kinda play with the hedges to fluff them back up all the glue and flock can clump up and weigh them down. Remove all the clumped up flock by just flicking the hedges and gently pulling up on them and whiping all the excess. Now your ready to go! Here's the finish product ! 

If you have any questions feel free to email me .. Happy gaming !! 

Game night at the club

Last night was game night at our club http://kingstonirregulars.blogspot.com/ and we played an attack defend setup out of the Chain of Command rule book. The attacking Americans had to drive the Germans out of the built up area or force them to leave the field by causing there force moral to drop to zero. Here's some pictures of the battlefield below

The game started with an American armored platoon attacking a regular German platoon defending a built up area . The Americans deployed one squad and the Germans responded with some great dice rolling pinning an American rifle section behind a hedgerow witch caused them to eventually broke due to increasing level of shock. This quickly evened out 

the Force Moral, (the Germans rolled poorly at the game start and started with a Force Moral level of 8 the Americans rolling better starting with 10). With luck changing sides from the moment the Americans rolled double 6s about 4-5 times in a row which gave them free run of the field deploying and moving at will and calling down a barrage that lasted almost the remainder of the game. This forced the Germans to make a string of poor decisions causing a rifle team to break and multiple casualties on the other teams caught in the barrage. Both sides rolled a crazy amount of 5s causing a lot of unexpected moves and decisions, making for a very bloody battle for both sides. After some bloody exchanges the Americans made their move to take the buildings.

Unfortunately the game had become so intense that I forgot to take pictures of the Americans final advance and have only a limited amount of pictures to work with here. With some of us still trying to get the rules down pat, time was not on the Americans side. Even with the string of double 6s and more chain of command points than they knew what to do with the American plan became bogged down. Casualties started taking a toll and force morale was dropping on both sides. With time running out to play, the Americans made a string of bold decisions allowing the Germans to deploy the rest of their platoon and hold the buildings . At the end the Germans were down to a force moral level of 4 and a final assault by the Americans dipped their force moral level to 2 and they decided to retire from the field (also time running out because it was getting late). Next time no matter how intense the game gets I will surely remember to take more pictures to have a better write up :) all and all it was a GREAT GAME and a GREAT TIME !!! We're looking foward to playing more Chain of Command games !!  It's also more practice for the upcoming game I'm putting on at a local convention , HAVOC coming up in a few weeks. 

Chain of command 20mm jump off points and 28mm jump of points

Recently among many other projects I threw together some 20mm jump off points for chain of command and my 20mm German and American paratroopers. Right now we're playing chain of command in 20mm at our club but recently I've just started on my 28mm British and German army's with figures from ARTIZAN DESIGN ,CRUSADERS, WARLORD GAMES, along with terrain and vehicles.(that's for another post). A few weeks ago I received my 28mm jump off points from toofatlardies and absolutely love them !! Great casting besides one Sten gun that has a chip in it, they are second to none, GREAT SCULPTING AND DETAIL  And cant wait to get them on the table!

Here's the GERMANs jump off points I just finished below... 

NOW HERES THE TOOFATLARDIES 28mm jump off points below !