Wednesday 17 February 2016

Terrain for Dien Bien Phu

We, in this case the Scandinavian Ladies, will have a participation game at this year’s Gothcon, and this time it will be Dien Bien Phu in 28mm scale and using the Chain of Command rules.
Thomas is the grand master of DBP and is in charge of everything, and I’m in the position of just following orders. One of the orders is to paint some Viet Cong soldiers, and they are bought and on their way (excellent stuff, that, as they can be used in pulp games also)
Painting the brown fleece to get something that looks like a muddy and shot-up field.
Another order was get some terrain finished. The best way to do that is to have a terrain-making-day and we chose a sunny and beautiful day to hole up in my cellar with MDF, filler, paint, fleece, foamboard, hot-glue gun, cork and whatnot.
The finshed thing, ready for some serious action.
An afternoon with a few tasty beers and without any burnt fingers got us (me, Thomas and Henke) a finished ground-cover and some started rice-paddies and bamboo-groves.

Thomas hot-gluing foam-board sides to cork-sheets (the excellent and cheap AVSKILD cork place mat from IKEA) to form the outlines of a rice paddy
Filler and a pre-paddy.
And with some filler applied with a brush it starts to look interesting. Add a crater or two and we start to get an idea on what to expect.
Bases for the bamboo-groves and also for stands of barbed wire
Thomas got the bamboo-not-groves-yet while I got to finish the rice-paddies. Stay tuned for more on that soon.

19 comments:

  1. I've started as well, using mainly old CD's and DVD's. Doing a rice paddy too though!

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  2. Picking up the bamboo bases tonight, then it's terrain time!

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    1. Bamboo-bases and Space Hulk - an odd mix...

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    2. I suddenly have visions of playing a Predator-like scenario with Foreign Legion troops and genestealers!

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    3. Pics of the bamboo progress please. Haven't decided how to do mine yet.

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    4. Will do. Jocke had some good ideas that I shall try.

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    5. I always have good ideas!
      Good, (pretty) good or (not very) good...

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  3. What a great start, looking forward to more updates chaps.

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    1. Thanks, Michael
      I'll mix more filler any day now and fix the last bases and then it will be paint-time
      (amazing how much paint you can get for the price of two bottles of Vallejo)

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    2. Michael, Laffe has a new update on the project.
      http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2016/02/welcome-to-jungle.html

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  4. Looks very nice and matches the colours as seen on pictures! I'm painting up some French, one section plus completed (pictures on my blog soon-ish) and more have just arrived ;-)

    /K

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    1. Great
      We might actually be ready in time, with the usual mix of panic and panic...

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    2. Don't forget the panic, Jocke! ;)

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  5. I like that mate Joakim, I think doing your own table cover mate whatever you want to call it is the best way to go, because then you can build all the terrain to match it.

    All help to add to the feel of the game imo.

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    1. getting the colours right is one plus when doing everything yourself. I hope we amanage to get a coherent look. Not the easiest when we are several people working in different locations.

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  6. I put my efforts so far on my blog

    http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2016/02/welcome-to-jungle.html

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