by madguru | Oct 27, 2019 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Terrain Building
17. WOODEN DOORSI am a woodworker’s son but sadly no woodworker, be it in 1:1 or 1:56th scale. Still, I wanted to transfer the colorful door design from cardboard to wood. So I dug out a piece of BALSA and my old wooden box of X-Acto knives and...
by madguru | Oct 26, 2019 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Terrain Building, Terraining Bases
12. SECOND BASTION ARRIVESAt this point, my friend the Vauban owner was happy enough with what he’d been seeing (via emailed photo updates) to order 2 new pieces: a second bastion and a second tower. Both were brand new from Magister Militum, and like the...
by madguru | Oct 25, 2019 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Terrain Building
9. TowerSomewhere along the way the tower had been primed black, I assume by its previous owner. Years ago I painted a Hudson & Allen castle and started it out with a pure black base coat, and it turned out pretty great. But this time I sprayed it over...
by madguru | Oct 24, 2019 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Terrain Building
5. WEATHERING WASHThis is a somewhat involved process, courtesy of wargames terrain master builder CHRIS THE MODEL MAKER. It’s not easy but not really difficult either. I would rate it as “moderately complex”.In order to proceed, you will...
by madguru | Oct 24, 2019 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Terrain Building
About 2-1/2 years ago a close friend of mine who I used to wargame with a lot before he moved to a foreign city, sent me a big box. It was filled with a classic Ian Weekley designed multi-part VAUBAN FORTRESS that I had agreed to paint for him as soon as I got...
by madguru | Aug 31, 2017 | Battle Reports, Conventions, Fellow Gamers, Miscellaneous History, Rivers, Terrain Building
Time flies when you’re having fun.Hard to believe but it’s been more than 2-1/2 years since I built a 6′ long x 1′ wide Rhine River for use in the Arnhem portion of a large OPERATION MARKET GARDEN game.The original plan was to play out a...
