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Friday, 31 August 2018
A Village Hex
Continuing on from my last post, I have now completed a hex to represent a small village/hamlet. It consists of two houses straddling a road section hex. It has sufficient room for units to pass through and for them to adopt defensive positions amongst the buildings. Made from foam board and card, these no frills structures are quick to make and provide an effective solution to the scenic work on a hex playing area:
Seen here with a unit passing through on the road:
The village can be expanded by adding additional structures in adjoining hexes:
For other periods such as WW2, there is enough room for the largest of my 1/72 scale vehicles:
I will probably make one more to give enough to represent a town.
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I like these a lot! Must admit I was curious to see how you would tackle the issue of BUAs on hexes, but your solution looks like it works well.
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
It has taken me a long time to come up with a workable solution. Once I had determined the unit and base size it began to fall into place.
DeleteTop work Bob, they remind me of the buildings made by Charles Grant Snr in The War Game.
ReplyDeleteNowhere as good as CS Grant's. He had an arrangement whereby the outer shell when lifted would reveal a damaged building. He was not constrained by hexes either!
DeleteSuper job. They work so well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeffers, I am pleased with the results. I want to try a small industrial building next.
DeleteVery well done!
ReplyDeleteI started playing with a similar idea a few years ago with solid, narrow houses on both sides of a road for my 40mm figures on a 4" grid and gave up, settling for a road with a house or 2 on 1 side only. Now that I have gone to 6" squares for my 54's I had been thinking about sticking with that but this has pondering the question again.
Six inch squares should give a good amount of space for some useable structures, although 54mm would be a challenge. You could try overhanging buildings with a small footprint, with larger upper story?
DeleteThis latest is very like the sort of thing I have been making, though the buildings remain separate. I( do admire your architecture, though! I may very well copy that tavern, especially!
ReplyDeleteI have found that foam board is a much easier medium to work with, especially now that I have abandoned the idea of cutting out window slits. The tavern is actually just two boxes, one on top of the other, with two pointy bits at the ends. The chimneys are also cut from foam board.
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