Renedra Wattle Fencing

Just 6 more cavlary to go before next weeks Saga outing but a days gardening has put paid to any detail work this weekend due to the curse of blisters, still I thought I would turn my attention to the Renedra Wattle which I picked up at Reading last year.

The original intention was to base the fences in 6" strips but I opted for a complete enclosure as I had some MDF sheets to hand. 

 

Having mapped out the fencing pattern, I glued the fencing to the board and once dry filled the enclosure with filler before creating plough lines.

A liberal coating of brown undercoat and the field is ready for dry brushing and static grass.

I am really quite pleased with the results, the hardest part was waiting enough time for the glue to dry.

I have enough pieces left for two more small enclosures, which will provide me with 3 good quality fences for £10.00

Pike Shot & Zombies Arrival Points (2)

Back in January I completed the first couple of Arrival points for Pike Shot & Zombies, this week I had the opportunity of finishing the last of them to make teh 6 needed for the game.

I still had plenty of Renedra Graveyard head stone's left but did not want to replicate what I had done before, so adding in a couple of undug graves from Magister Militum, I set about finishing the last four.

Again based on old Cd's covered with a liberal covering of PVA glue and Sharp Sand.
I am pleased with the results each one feels slightly different, lets just hope our band of adventurers get close enough to put them on the table.....

Probably my favourite, less is definately more.

The grave diggers left this one unfinished, before they were overcome.



Next up more ACW Fences for the all dayer and hopefully the first of the Elizabethans.

Renedra & Pegasus Plastic Terrain Pieces

Keeping up with my plan to complete the projects sitting in draws and cupboards. I thought this week I would turn my attention to a couple of terrain items...

First up.

Renedra - Tents.

A multi purpose terrain peice, 4 tents and a camp fire, these will work for anything from the Zulu War through to the American Civil War. I figured that a tent and a camp fire will come in handy to represent Lt Carey's camp at the forthcoming particapation game at Gloucester Minicon.

The pieces come in a grey pressed plastic which needs a couple of coats of white undercoat to cover up the grey base colour.

I decided to base them to make them a little more robust and include the camp fire as being so small it was likely to be lost.


I have given them a quick wash of GW Gryphonne Sepia Wash and wiped off the excess to give them the lived in look.

Pegasus Hobbies - Cactuses.

I picked these up cheap off e-bay with the intention of providing scenics for a texas war project that got as far as 20 figures, I thought I would make and paint them to compliment my Napoleonic French in Egypt campaign, they will serve as rough ground and places for the sneaky arabs to hide in, but also double for rough ground in the donga for the forth coming Zulu game.

The Cactus come in two different sizes one of large plants the other of a smaller variety. First impressions are terrible they are bright green and the plastic feels a little cheap, but they go together really well and with a liberal coating of undercoat and some dry brushing they look really nice and are a perfect match for 28mm figures.

I based up some lose pebbles and some scenic brush to compliment them, the project took a couple of hours to complete, but I can see a use in several games.

Pike Shot & Zombies - Arrival Points

Keeping up with my plan to complete the projects sitting in draws and cupboards. I thought this week I would turn my attention to a couple of terrain items...
In preparation for the first outing of Pike Shot & Zombies I thought I would create some arrival points for the zombies to spring from.

Renedra - Graveyard's.

I picked these up several months ago at one of the wargaming show's. Not sure why I brought them, so they sat in a draw until I could think of a use for them.

Reading the Pike Shot & Zombie's rules they call for arrival points for the zombies, these are mean't to be burial grounds and grave yards and the like so I thought these would come in handy to represent arrival points rather than a simple tabletop marker.

The Graveyard pack has 40 head stones encompassing, crosses, tombstones, slabs and even a crow to boot...

The detail is very impressive and they come away from the frames cleanly, using green stuff I attached them to a couple of old CD's and covered them in a thin layer of PVA glue and sharp sand.

a liberal covering of TSS flock and some Silfor and they were finished.
I am quite pleased with the results and they will work for the first game of PSZ in a few weeks.