And what would an army be without terrain to fight in? In addition to the old ruins, I have now made a forest. The trees are Hoch 1:160 Snow covered fir trees. Quite typical trees in a finnish forest (in addition to pines). I have mounted them to 20mm washers for stability. When I position a light source to any other place than directly above the trees, they create good shadows that can easily conceal infantry stands and tanks. The light grey on the tanks blends the tank to the shadows nicely. Of course they can be seen clearly if close enough, but in real life, the enemy couldn't see them from afar.



A chimera and an infantry squad patrolling on a forest.

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Very nice stuff.  

Just a quick comment on GHQ: back when Avalon Hill was planning to use them for DASL (deluxe squad leader) they came out with a very nice little painting guide.

Their suggestion was to skip the primercoat entirely, just airbrush on a base coat, then bake the miniatures in the oven at 200F to toughen the bond between basecoat and the mini itself.

Also, I recently saw a note about 'dry-brushing' the minis that was quite literal: 'bash-em' up with a larger, entirely dry sable brush to remove some of the paint and reveal the edges of the details.

And, finally, one modeler generally snipped the GHQ barrels as part of the painting process, replacing them with appropriately-lengthed and roughly appropriately sized pins and/or paper clips.

I've tried the first suggestion, thought it worked well, though NB cyano glue's melting point is around 200F, so any glue-job will be ruined by baking.

GHQ's forums have some amazing work on them, and are well worth browsing.

I see Sentinels and Rough Riders in your future: as scouts, they can provide a nice ablative shield for your Basys... and bulk up your activation count.

But what to use as proxies?

Looks great !  But I hate winter ops !!  

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Sounds like things worked out for you L4:  I seem to think your old unit had a cardboard version in GDW's Arctic Front.

Of course... things probably worked out well for all of us on that score: in the arctic it's hard to swing a stick without hitting a Great Power...

:-)....

It is good that these forums are back again, I missed them. A funny thing is that when I was going to post an update and came here, the forums were down. If I had managed to take these new pictures a day or two earlier, I could have made the update in February.

This time I offer you an objective. This is a signals-Chimera used to communicate between other regiments and higher formations. It uses two very high frequency radio links for that, a normal radio for communication between companies and has an option for fiber optic lines for more static customers (infantry companies or HQ buildings). Those who have served in Finnish signal units (espacially in the Armoured brigade) may recognise familiar things in this...

The model is currently in state of preparing to relocate, the camo net has been partially rolled off and all fiber lines connection have been disassembled. The camo net has strong resemblance to Finnish snow camo m/05. It breaks the form of the tank nicely when the trees cast some shadows nearby. The Chimera has been in it's current position for some time, so the crew has built a sandbag wall for close defence. For aesthetical reasons the sandbags are not camoflaged with snow as they should be.




The crew are defending their tank. The flash makes the sandbags look slimy a little.


Thanks. I have plans for the Sentinels in form of aerosans, a ski-mounted sled with a propeller for propulsion. And if I would use Rough riders, I would propably convert some ski-infantry, as a well trained soldier with skis is quite fast and manouverable opponent in snow.

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Loving the objective. I have to admit, these are the reason I decided to make the switch to BMP-3 Chimaeras from the few BMP-2s I had.

cool job
like your snow landscape

Here we go again. Another objective in the form of an artillery forward observer dugout. As I have artillery, I logically need forward observers (no model for them, but in real life there would be some subordinated to companies). And as they are usually quite high priority targets for the enemy, they have a dugout for protection againist direct fire and close landing small artillery/mortars. A direct hit from even a mortar would kill the observers surely. In real life this would also have a camo net, but that would make this less good looking and would prevent the capturing player from placing a stand in there. This little dugout has a minimal gear for forward observing, only a special binocular rangefinder and a radio. The rest are possibly carried by the team.





Somehow this reminds me, who else remembers standing on guard for 2 hours on a chilly, windy, winter night in a dugout like this? I certainly do...


Thank you.


Thanks.

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The combination of white cammo and that lovely terrain is just great

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More terrain coming. This time it is a trench. A winter war (which ended 70 years and 1 month ago) style trench. The trench is dug in snow and strenghtened by wood. The trench is a little unrealistically wide to allow bases up to 15mm wide, not too much however. The rusted barbed wire is of course too close to the trench, but aesthetical reasons sanctify that... As can be seen from the pictures, it accomodates 4 bases of infantry, which is perfect for a fire-support platoon. Now the pictures:




They hide there nicely. Only head and gun visible.

What do you think?


Thank you, more terrain will come after a while. And possibly more tanks.

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Another winner! I actually prefer the GW razorwire though; yours is a little thick for my tastes. Roll ithe GW stuff around a needle file's handle to get the right spool size, and it looks great. THe trenches are really good, I like how you have all the snow drifted at one end.

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I feel cold...:)

Great looking terrian goes very weill with the army. Now what will be the OPFOR for all this wintery goodness.

Blue tyranids?

Thank you. I know the wire is really thick, but I didn't have anything else. At least it is very durable. The spool size is so big to prevent anyone jumping over it. I don't think anyone would do it, except a huge horde of tyranids or orks. In which case the trench is propably lost anyway...


Thanks. I don't know about the opposing force, basically any non-Imperial race. So far I only concentrate on this, but perhaps in few years I could have another army to combat this one.

More has already been painted, estimated time of update is within 2 days...

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Here we go again. The last pieces of terrain for a while are tank emplacements. These are quick to construct (both in real life and modeling) and offer all kinds of armoured vehicles a nice hull down position. A well trained tank crew can drive to an emplacement, fire at targets and drive away to another position in a moment. These are big enough to fit a leman russ, and of course any of my other tanks, but propably not a land raider, and certainly not any super heavies. All three have trackprints on the snow as the emplacements have been used.

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nicely done Rudolf
your snow terrain pieces are fantastic