Sunday 28 October 2012

FIW extras

To further clutter up the battlefield for future games I've decided to add a few pieces of extra details. First up is two carts from 4ground. These are made from MDF and were pretty straightforward to put together and paint.
2 Hand carts

I've also put together some extra trade goods to go with the trading post. The sandbags were from a plastic WW2 set I picked up years ago, still got some more lying around. The smaller crates and barrels are resin that I picked up rather cheaply on EBay. The larger barrel is from GW Siege defenders range and the 2 rolls of cloth are from Black Crow's sci fi range.

Trade goods
 As most of my scenery is for the Europeans I decided I wanted something for the Indians. I had a quick look on the Grand Manner site at their Indian Longhouses, lovely sculpts but out of my price range. It was then I remembered an old WI issue with and article from Herb Gundt on making a woodland Indian village. Using this as inspiration and knicking a plastic bowl from the Kitchen, I add small squares of crepe paper to get a bark effect. Quite pleased with my efforts, though the door is probably too large.

Indian Hut
Indian hut
And all Indian villages are not complete with a totem pole displaying the scalps of a warriors recent victims. The scalps were made from some rolled up tissue paper.

Scalping pole
On the figure front I painted up another 6 Canadian militia as Courer de bois. These figures are all from Front Rank Miniatures. Quite enjoyed painting these guys despite my initial reservations.

Courer de bois
Courer de bois

9 comments:

  1. WOW I am impressed about what you have done here!
    A big respect on these!

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  2. Love the Indian huts, very smart!

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  3. Damn nice work, I've been looking at those MDF wagons myself.

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  4. I like all the things you're showing! But the wagons are my favorites!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  5. Did not realise wagon were mdf - awesome !

    Must get some of these

    Like the trade goods

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  6. I picked the wagons up off EBay, £3.50 each.

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  7. Wonderful work Scotty. Really like the wagons!

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  8. Very nice in particular the home made Indian huts.

    Christopher

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