by madguru | Jan 19, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Hills, Rocky Terrain
These are some of the first pictures of miniatures taken in my new house.I took them in my office, using light from a small directable ceiling fixture meant to illuminate artwork that will one day (hopefully in the not-too-distant-future) hang on the wall below. The...
by madguru | Jan 3, 2012 | Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
A while ago I was suddenly hit with what I thought was a very good idea — to try to use the same kind of WOOD-CHIPS I used to build a nice little rocky hill (LINK to prior blog post) in a different way — specifically, to turn them on their ends and use...
by madguru | Sep 26, 2011 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
My previous post (LINK) showed some pics of the first few steps of building this hill, namely:(1) Carve contour out of 1.5″ foam, using mix of coping saw, dovetail saw, utility knife, and X-acto hobby saw.(2) Trace footprint of hill onto model aircraft plywood,...
by madguru | Sep 24, 2011 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
Bad news: I just spent a couple hours loading up close to a hundred pics showing the process of building my new hill — but unfortunately Blogger experienced a problem and this page I was working on lost them all. Needless to say, this kind of sucks, and after a...
by madguru | Aug 26, 2011 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
This diagram is taken from an article in the May 1999 issue #600 of Kepi Blanc (the magazine of the FFL). The overall layout and design of the compound is somewhat inaccurate (the compound was square, not a narrow rectangle, the main hacienda building was 2 stories...
by madguru | Aug 26, 2011 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
CLICK on pic to enlarge, then click again for super close-up viewing…
