Review – Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars.
Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars is a book written in 2019 by Tony Harwood (probably more well known by his online pseudonym Dampfpanzerwagon) and [...]
Scenery
Sarissa Precision release Sengoku Period castle in MDF
Sarissa Precision have added to their range of 28mm MDF terrain for Feudal Japan with a new castle. The Japanese Castle is a sizable kit, representing the traditional [...]
Town Planning
There is one thing that as miniature wargamers we cannot get away from – we all need terrain over which to fight. Luckily, we seem to be in a golden age for terrain. [...]
Review: Cigar Box Battle Mats
Rating: In recent years, there has been a quantum leap in commercially available terrain for wargaming. One of the biggest areas of growth has been in terrain mats. It [...]
Deep Cut Studio – Medieval Ruins Terrain Mat
Those talent chaps at Deep Cut Studio have been at it again. Hard on the heels of their Muddy Field release, followed by a particularly squelchy-looking Alien Planet mat [...]
Deep Cut Studios release Muddy Fields
Deep Cut Studios have just released a new gaming mat – Muddy Fields. If you don’t fancy fighting over rolling meadows or plains, this could be the gaming surface [...]
GameTerrain – new company launches via Kickstarter
The huge growth in the availability of MDF buildings for wargaming in recent years has definitely made scenery more affordable, especially in 28mm. However, they are not to [...]
Saga in 6mm – making terrain
Per Broden has posted a new update on his 6mm Saga project blog for the Joy of Six show on July 17th 2016. In this entry, he discusses how he created all the scenery [...]
New buildings from Najelwitz Modellbau
One of the questions I was asked a lot last weekend was ‘What make are your buildings?’. In the small town we had set up, the two buildings on the bottom right [...]
Playingtheodds – Building your own Battle Mat
Recently, a blog update from Playing The Odds showed how you could make your own flexible gaming mat. It’s a really interesting article which looks to give a great [...]
Building a bit more scenery…Part II
You may remember last week I wrote a blog post about repurposing some old toy farm buildings as 15mm wargaming scenery. Well, I did manage to finish these off over the [...]
Getting the weathered wood effect
Following my previous post, John Sharman asked me how I achieved the effect, so I thought I’d add a more detailed update. The first thing to note that these ideas were [...]
Building a bit more scenery
Sorry for the lack of updates this week – I’ve been a bit snowed under with magazine work… I have been pottering around a little bit on the painting table. [...]
Latest Tiger Terrain models painted
I picked up another four buildings from Tiger Terrain at the end of last week. The next scenario in our campaign has a chateau complex which includes a couple of large barns [...]
Deadstick…hang on a minute…
I think we’ve all done it. There we are, getting ready to put on a game, sorting out all our miniatures and scenery when, suddenly, we look around and say “hang [...]
New hills from TheBigRedBatCave
Whilst at Chalgrove yesterday, I had chance to see the new hills that Simon Miller has created to match the Deep Cut Studios Plains terrain mats that he sells at [...]
Sally 4th Launch MDF modular interior Sci-Fi terrain range
Sally 4th have recently launched a range of painted sci-fi interiors. These are of a modular design, and are produced in MDF. The floor tiles are painted light grey, the [...]
Tiger Terrain Bridges – now painted
You may remember that back in early December I bought some bridges from Tiger Terrain, as we thought that using a stone bridge for some of the bridges in the Benouville and [...]
Tiger Terrain Bridges
My long-suffering gaming opponent Dave and I have been discussing the start of our British Paratroopers World War II campaign, most poignantly whether it’s worth [...]
More about buildings & scenery…
I had the pleasure of attending an all-day game at Wyvern Wargamers this last Sunday. Ade Deacon invited us down to play a game of Big Chain of Command. We played over this [...]
