Trench Warfare - part 3.

 

With the Trench Build continuing on, in the rare moments I'm having to hobby at the moment I took the opportunity to clear something from the desk and had an entire painting session drybrushing the hell out of these pieces to get the finished and table ready.

So in order, we have piece "1A", front:

And rear:

This is piece "2A", from the front:

And the rear, showing off the sandbagged area:

And piece "3A", the larger firing step area from the rear:

And "3A" from the front with the scorch marks:

In order to match my own collection of miniatures, I long ago worked out a generic diet formula for bases which I liked and use on everything of mine (other people's miniatures vary in basing style and that's fine, I just like all my stuff to match).

So from the previous post where I had taken the trenches to the dark wash stage, I start with a drybrush of Baneblade Brown and then go strsight up to a highlight/drybrush of Ushabti Bone.

I occasionally hit the very highest of ridges with a VERY LIGHT drybrush of Ulthuan Grey, but very very lightly, just to emphasize the ridge.

Craters and scorch marks start with a base of Abbadon Black and then fret drybrushed in order of Corax Black (Heavy) Mechanicus Standard Grey (Medium), Celestra Grey (Light) and finally Ulthuan Grey (Lightest touch).

And because I couldn't resist when I laid them out, I dug out the platoon of Fraser's Krieg army which I have finished so far and added them to the trenches fora few photos:

And this panoramic photo along the finished trenches, very cool:

I'm starting on piece "4A" which will make this section four feet long, and an alternative "2A" piece which will have a bunker added and can be swapped out depending on the narrative of the game.

I can live with the slight gaps in the slope between the modular pieces as these are mainly for gaming, and some I'll take a battering as tike goes on, plus I don't think it's that noticeable once things are in motion.

I think the only addition I want to do in future is to add some grass tufts along the slope, so it's not as barren/desert looking, but I'll need to find a colour set which I am happy with for the overall look and a bulk seller of them.

This is set "A" as I want to build set "B" which will run across the opposite side of the table eventually and enable me to play games between the two lines.

Running assaults across no-mans land, trench raids, etc.

The next piece of terrain I have started is a shatter wood on a hill, based off of some historical photographs off the internet, and I'm going to need yet more Craters to populate no-mans land with.

Until next time, have nice day...