Mediterranean terrain, a few more GI’s and Smolensk

As mentioned in a couple of posts I have been working on developing some terrain suitable for Mediterranean theatres, specifically Sicily, Southern Italy and Spain. Some of this managed to get on the table in our first Sicily battle last week.

Here was the set up from last week. The cypress trees were purchased from eBay, I have six but might get a few more, they are simple but fairly robust which I like. The roads which are very characteristic, are simply painted on the back of some other roads, to save some storage space. Some of the extra walls came from the show at York and again I may buy a few more. The two buildings are Charlie Foxtrot, as everybody who has them knows they are a both easy to build and look fantastic. My aim in much of this was not to just collect more stuff as storage is an increasing challenge.

First up rather than buy a new mat I decided to tone down the desert cloths I have, so one side of each was sprayed with green paint. I may give them another coat when the weather warms up.

I purchased some plastic card tile sheets to creat some roofs for existing building see below

I have also done some DIY walls, they are simple wooden blocks with the tiles stuck on top, I have created a slight angle by glueing some card underneath

Finally I have spent ages thinking about the colour of roof tiles. In the battle you will see they were quite dark red, however, having looked at a lot of images on the net this wasn’t quite the look I was looking for. So they have been repainted in a more natural terracotta colour with some weather.

The stable repainted

The walls, I have twice these and will at some point make some gates ?

I had a couple of these warlord damaged buildings so they have been painted to match with tiled roofs

I had some spare mdf building bits so cobbled together a larger building, perhaps as a farm house 

This was a shot to show the Russian thatched buildings I have…

And the same building with a new tiled roof.

Or a pitched roof, these buildings give me quite a few options which I can mix and match. Next I plan to make a few smaller sheds and out buildings and an extension to a tower.

I have also painted up the last few GI’s which Phil had sent me

…and created a spotter team as well

Finally for this post, some will have seen George’s blog on the next battle in our Smolensk campaign, as usual a lovely set up of the Eastern front

Having won the previous two battles and as I’m still learning the rules I thought I would change things up and give a go at the probe scenario, this was going to be a real challenge against dug in German defenders.

The BT 7 was back into the attack.

The patrol phase didn’t go as well as I had hoped and the Russians had too much ground to cover.

They did their best pushing as many infantry forward as possible but, with the Germans rolling pretty well the infantry was wiped out as soon as it started to push forward. Oh well  it was a fun game and I learnt more about the rules, and the Russians can always bring more infantry to the next battle 👍

Thanks as always for checking in

Matt