The
LRDG-project is sloooooowly going forward.
After a month without miniatures I
made a quick terrain project.
Every
nice airport being raided by LRDG needs something to go up in flames. We
thought about a fuel-dump with lots of oil-barrels, but that takes a long time to make,
so I made a cistern from an empty can. When I was at it, I made two.
I
guess desert airfields usually didn’t have these cisterns, but it will look
nice on the table.
Cans hot-glued to used palette-CDs
DAS modelling clay – excellent for your
terrain projects
Clay on CD to get the cisterns embedded
I
spray painted the cisterns with Army Painter Color Primer Desert Yellow,
drybrushed with Vallejo 865 Oily Steel and made stains with Citadel Devlan Mud
and Vallejo Gamecolor 68 Smokey Ink.
Ground
painted with a mix of cheap paint and fine sand, and the grass tufts are Army
Painter Battlefields Wasteland Tuft 6mm.
I
found documents and photos on the net about the Italian oil-company AGIP, and
the signs were made from these.
Being
an Italian airfield I thought they needed something really worth protecting. A
cistern of Cinzano, of course. A bit whimsical, but who says we have to be dead serious all the time.
Wonder
if it is good or bad to blow that up? Morale will certainly take a hit, but on
the other hand the troops will probably be more combat worthy.
The
Cinzano-sign from “Italian signs from Chris Woffenden” which you can download here. Lots of
great, free, WWII-signs there, well worth a visit.
The
map, “Imperio Etiopico”, is a road-map made by AGIP which a found a photo of.
Great for character, but I wonder why nobody has removed it from the cistern.
Nostalgia, I guess.
A
fast and simple project, with nice results. Just as they should be.
Welcome
follower James Brewerton with blogs Akrotiri Nomads Wargames, where we
see what happens in his wargames room, Exiles Wargames Painter, great
blog on painting, and finally The wonderful world of Mackie and Toddy, about Mackie
and Toddy…
Also
Paradox0n, with Paradox0ns Wargaming
Blog, on terrain, minitures, tutorials, reviews and more – good blog,
should have more followers (actually just got one more, me)
Nice terrain pieces, good way to get some painting done.
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