Odds & Ends (12) - More Miscellaneous Scenics (6mm & 15mm)

This week I have been mostly making trees, mainly with my 6mm Vietnam project in mind, and whilst I was at it making a little bit more sci-fi jungle like terrain for my 15mm stuff, plus a tiny orchard and some rock outcrops.

First up my 6mm "jungle" which I appreciate looks nothing like real jungle but will serve to represent it better than my standard deciduous trees, these are mainly for my 6mm Vietnam games but can double up for 6mm Sci-fi/Fantasy too. Simply made with some cheap plastic pond weed cut up and with a dressmakers flat headed pin stuck through for the trunk:



 

This next little piece was made using Alder tree catkins which once dried out and covered in PVA and flock can be dry brushed in various shades of green and I also added little red blobs of paint to represent fruit, all credit to my mate Jase for bringing these to my attention.

 

 

Next I finally got round to making some rocky out crops which work with either 6mm or 15mm, for these I bought some Javis Countryside Scenics - Cork Bark:

Next post will be more scenery this time with a Sci-Fi theme.

6mm Vietnam (part 1)

So it appears I did get side-tracked after all!

A new venture for me this time round, and whilst I did play 20mm Vietnam skirmish for a number of years this is the first time at 6mm and at Company level rather than Platoon.

For rules, I have gone with Too Fat Lardies - "Charlie don't surf" rules and I am really enjoying reading them so far, though I've yet to game with them.

As for miniatures, I somewhat reluctantly went with GHQ, reluctant purely because they are far more expensive than H&R for eg. However I figured I wouldn't need a great deal of infantry and very few vehicles and GHQ has a specific Vietnam range, so they won out in the end.

I haven't painted many so far but wanted to paint up a platoon to see how they would look on the table and here are the results:

Well that's it for this time, definitely Old West next on the agenda.