Sunday, May 24, 2015

28mm Coal Mine.....



As part of the prepartion for OML3 I have been reading into the Battle of Shaho 1904 a particular part of the engagement was the Japanese 12th Division assault on the Yantai coal mines an attack  that was to cost both sides over 5000 casualties.

By chance I spotted the following item on ebay and figured with a little work I could create my own Yantai mine.

Hand made from card a couple of spokes and kitchen string it appears to be originally for HO scale it just needed cleaning up a little and the flock and scatter up grading.
I may well add some coal scatter at a later date.


I added a Chinese coolie to give a sense of scale, whilst the doors are a little off it is certainly large enough for gaming purposes and I can see it being used in a variety of periods and scenario's from the RJW to AVBCW.  - A real bargin at £10.00


A Photo of coal works circa 1900.... Actual photo's of the Yantai mine have proven impossible to find but this looks pretty good to me for a table top representation.


9 comments:

  1. Nice job and should look great on the table.

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  2. Brilliant! Look forward to seeing it in action!

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  3. Fantastic piece of terrain. Well done!

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  4. That looks the business Stu, have you looked at the Army and navy military press book shop they have three books on the Russian/Japanese war all reprints of original period books .
    Regards Furphy .

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    1. I will take a look now.
      I seem to be picking up quite a collection.
      Cheers
      Stu

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