This wooden cabin style Russian Village set from Red Vectors (Pendraken) is set at WW2. Despite some “clean” lines, it can easily be used in earlier periods, and in fantasy, wild west, or sci-fi and post-apoc as well. It’s 2mm MDF, and the buildings include bases, and the roofs are removable.
For the aged wood finish, I went with a dark brown base, gray drybrush, brown wash, tan drybrush, and finally a soft white drybrush.
The set includes 2 houses (small and large), a barn, a stable/workshop and a pig sty. I’m overall very happy with both the designs, quality, and the painted end results.
Large houseSmall houseBarnhouseStable/workshopPigsty
If there’s one thing that’s plentiful in terrain buildings it’s churches. I chose this one from Red Vectors. It’s 2mm MDF, without a base. Under normal circumstances, the roof isn’t removable. I glued it in place.
The model is based on a true historical church, the Escomb Church. I went ahead and looked it up as a reference.
I found the etched bricks to be too few as related to the real church, and decided to use my sarissa precision stencils to add more stones using gray paint. Unfortunately, I did this after I had glued the assembled model, so I couldn’t reach some places especially near corners.
Again with a WW2 small house, this low country cottage from Sarissa Precision uses 2mm thick MDF. It has a base, and the roof is removable despite its small size. It is true 15mm scaled.
I went with a yellowish wall colour and wooden timbers, and a grayish slate roof tile.
The wooden beams are etched onto the MDF, but painting them requires fine motor skills. Perhaps I should have used masking tape to get cleaner lines.
This one could also be used for games set on earlier time periods without breaking immersion.
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time preparing laser cut terrain. While still my latest batch is a Work in Progress, I came to the realisation that I’ve not shared my previous works, at least not in the same manner I’ve done with my painted miniatures. You may have seen them in my various actual plays, but with the exception of some DIY items, my laser cut terrain never got the attention it deserves.
As you understand this series of posts will be more often as we begin and will slow down as I reach WIP items.
The first item on my list is a WW2 Town House. I still haven’t worked at all on painting my 15mm miniatures range as I haven’t decided on how to base them, however terrain can be used in a variety of setting and themes. This particular town house from TTCombat could be used in a late fantasy setting.
It’s closer to true 15mm, so it can be a bit smaller for my 18mm figures, but that’s minor, as the 3mm thick MDF also include a base at the bottom, raising the entire structures height.
I went with white walls, brown wood windows and red roof tiles. The roof is removable, so I painted the interior gray. However the ground floor is not accessible. I guess it’s meant for WW2 wargamers who place a squad or two inside the roof, essentially declaring that the house is occupied and they’re in cover. It’s not meant for visual realism as much. On the same topic, I can’t think of placing furniture and other items in buildings unless the figures are based on very small bases, prone to falling down, or you’re making a diorama.
Perhaps I overdid it with texturing the walls with plaster and with the washes, but I think the end result is good enough.
I wanted to complement my regular medieval troops with more figures, so here come the Dismounted men-at-arms in kettle helms, mixed weapons from the 13th century range of the Khurasan Miniatures historicals.
I went with an olive green cloth and a simple red and white horizontal stripes on the shield.
Man at arms with swordMan at arms with axeMan at arms with mace
Some greek javelin men from Museum Miniatures “Z” range. Weirdly one sculpt didn’t appear in the website pictures, and I didn’t get two of the other poses. Nevertheless I liked the set. Here are painted the 3 unique poses out of the 8 of the pack.
I went with a simple white tunic and brown hair. I used bronze for the shield and javelins.
My first foray into miniature mounts came with the Museum Miniatures Donkey Pack. Had to look up some donkey reference pictures, and went with the typical gray coated donkey.
I think these will fit in along nicely with my porters
Donkey with baggage Donkey with chestsDonkey with jars
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