by madguru | Apr 22, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Terrain Building
This past weekend my 14 year-old daughter surprised me by asking to set the wargames table up with a large Medieval battle, for her to shoot video of for a class project. The table was already covered with my not-quite-finished Charasiab layout, with various...
by madguru | Apr 20, 2014 | Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
As promised I’m back again, to deliver a detailed Work-In-Progress photo array showing how I built the last rocky wood-chip hill for my Charasiab layout…1. Draw the outline of your hill on the styrofoam board. This particular hill was 1.5″...
by madguru | Apr 18, 2014 | Hills, Terrain Building
Earlier this evening I finished work on the third of the last 3 low sandy hills needed for my Charasiab terrain layout. I started out thinking I would need 6 of these hills, but later, upon further and more detailed examination via Google Earth, realized I...
by madguru | Apr 8, 2014 | Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
Well, I said I was done building rocky wood-chip hills for my Charasiab lay-out, but… I just wasn’t happy with the hill I’d been using for the Western edge of the Sang-i-Nawishta Gorge, which forms the far right end of the long row of tall hills/low...
by madguru | Mar 31, 2014 | Anglo-Indian Army, Fellow Gamers, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
For me, one of the unexpected rewards of blogging has been the occassional opportunity to see someone physically remote but similarly inclined, make use of something they saw posted here. This has happened a few times over the 3-1/2 or so years since I started...
