I recently completed a number of Terrain Features and was at odds on how to best display them. In the end, it was a no-brainer and I decided to base the features on some installation CDs that were taking up shelf space in the office.
The first piece is a representation of Stonehenge, a prehistorical circular setting of large standing stones. Being circular, it was very easy to make the leap to mount the pieces on a CD. The model used is called Stonehenge: Build Your Own Ancient Wonder and is available from Indigo or Chapter Books in Canada. I used two sets that were given to me as gifts and still have numbers numbers pieces left over. The kit was called to my attention by a fellow gamer from Halifax who used the same kits to build a large standing stone structure to be a centerpiece for a large battle HOTT games. . A stand with two 15mm undead archers is used for scale throughout this posting.
The 2nd piece is a desert ruin by JR Miniatures. It is a heavy piece and from the JR Miniatures' website I would guess that it is made from Drystone. Drystone is described as a polymer modified cement for casting detail
parts.
According to the website Drystone is durable and chip resistant and has a PSI of 10,000
as compared to plaster which only has a PSI of 2,000. When painting DO
NOT wash and using a primer is not necessary.
I purchased this piece from a
local gaming store sometime last year to go with a 15mm DBA army.
The final pieces are some resin rocks that were included as a freebie in
a Armorcast river set I purchased on eBay years ago. The river was one
of the first posting I wrote about on this blog, three years ago.
Again the 15mm undead show the scale of the pieces.
There is one thing worse than painting miniatures, and that is to have unpainted miniatures. Captain's Blog will provide an audience, or in other words motivation, to stimulate my war game miniature painting productivity. In Halifax, we had a great group of gamers and we were constantly in competition with each other. I do not have the same community support in Montreal. I hope that by blogging regularly that I will force myself to paint more. Are you up to the challenge? Pick up a brush.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Stonehenge and other Terrain Features
Labels:
15mm,
Armorcast,
CD Base,
JR Miniatures,
Stonehenge,
Terrain
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