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Thursday, 30 August 2018
New Terrain Piece
I have settled on using five inch hexes for my Napoleonic wargames and have been slowly building terrain features. The biggest challenge has been buildings, which need to look vaguely in scale, but of a size that will allow a unit to fit within the hex. So far I built a walled farm, a larger farm/chateau, and my latest is a church, with wall. This will make a useful strong defensive position:
It is made from foam board, balsa and card and painted with DIY sample pot paint. Here is the same building with an infantry unit within the walls:
My infantry units are 12 figures on four bases. It will also accommodate a gun battery on one of my standard artillery bases:
The next terrain project will be a two or three house village.
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Very neat looking terrain piece given the constraints imposed by a hexagon.
ReplyDeleteI agree, very neat, I like it very much.
DeleteIt's a good solution to a problem I'm struggling with at present. My hexes are only 90mm and I'm using 1/72 plastics. To fit my current buildings in I'm making my BUAs two or three hexes big. But when I played a published scenario I had to use 6mm buildings which looked a bit silly.
ReplyDeleteI may try something like yours.
I am with 4” hexes and 10 / 12 mm scale and the fitting of both units and terrain in the hex at the same time is often awkward and is probably the thing that annoys me most about hexes. The solution of going to a 5” or 6” hex is a move in the right direction.
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