When I ran my "Waterloo in Two" games at Historicon last year, I had it mind to make custom ridges for the game; in the end, time ran out, and that just didn't happen. I'm going to do Waterloo at HAVOC on Saturday, April 5th with the "Square Eagles" rules, and this time out I did have to time to make them. I had almost enough foam board from previous project, but not quite enough of the 1.5 inch thickness, so I wound up having to buy a new sheet. They only had 1" and 2" sheets, so I went with a sheet of the 2" foam, which was way more than I needed. Boy, has this stuff gone up in price compared with years ago! Anyway, I designed the ridges, and cut out the shapes using two different hot knife tools.
A heavy coat of "Sunny Valley Green" from Home Depot.
Applied brown craft paint to the slopes using a moist sponge.
Then lighter dabs of Delta CC "Jute" to the dark brown areas.
The flat hilltops were then brushed with a heavy coat of scenic cement, and a heavy application of Scenic Express "Green Grass Blend" flock.
After the excess was shaken off, there were some bald spots that got a second application of cement and flock. Note the Really Useful box with the surplus flock!!!
The 7 foot long "French" (La Belle Alliance) ridge is up top, the 11 foot long "British" Ridge (Mont St. Jean) is in the middle and bottom, and on the bottom right are two spare pieces. I still need to spay again with Scenic cement for best adherence of the flock.
They look superb
ReplyDeleteThank you, Neil!
DeleteNice work Peter, they should look great at your convention game.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Keith. The 2 hour version worked well, so assuming this does as well, this is a game that can be run over a number of years at different venues, including HMGS Next Gen events.
DeleteGreat work Peter. I particularly like the way figure can be placed on the hills without having to tilt forwards or backwards.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lawrence. Hopefully I have made the slopes gentle enough that the figures can stand upon them, but with the grid, most of the troops should be able to occupy the flat tops.
DeleteLooking good, Peter. Cannot wait to see the hills with units on them! "He's nailed himself to this ridge!" :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve. I hop to do test deployment Sunday.
DeleteReally good looking and versatile terrain pieces.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Richard. I might need to do a few more end pieces for shorter ridges, but no need for same at the moment!
DeleteExcellent looking hills/ridges!Sunny valley green sounds like a Monkeys song!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks, Iain.
DeleteThat or something named under the influence of funky herbs! :-)