How to build a Waterloo battlefield by Andrew Wardroper
Apr 20, 2017 19:38:40 GMT
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How to build a Waterloo battlefield 6'x8'.
1. The most important step - and I cannot stress how important this is - is to marry a spouse who not only understands your mad obsession but actively encourages it.
2. Invite mother in law to live with you which justifies getting a bigger house with a large enough basement to fit your battleboard.
3. As a reward for #2 above, buy a pool table for yourself which doubles not only as a pool table but also as the support for your battle board.
4. Retire to get enough time to do this.
Click on thumbnails to see big picture!
Board base is three sheets of 2"x2'x8' rigid insulation.
Contours are cut from 1/2" thick insulation.
Bilious green paint is all the skill I have to reproduce fields of rye and wheat.
Nice new buildings. The old ones are too awful to show.
Truncated La Haye Sainte farm
My version of Hougoumont. Thanks to Forummers who helped on colour and details.
Burnt out La Haye Sainte farmhouse.
Culmination of 30 years of sporadic effort. The battlefield with troops all lined up, at 11a.m. on June 18, 1815. The top right just shows the church and village of Plancenoit. The priest refused to give up his mass. The Prussians are lurking in the distance waiting to make their arrival.
A majority of the figures are HaT. Without HaT's range of figures, this wasn't possible.
1. The most important step - and I cannot stress how important this is - is to marry a spouse who not only understands your mad obsession but actively encourages it.
2. Invite mother in law to live with you which justifies getting a bigger house with a large enough basement to fit your battleboard.
3. As a reward for #2 above, buy a pool table for yourself which doubles not only as a pool table but also as the support for your battle board.
4. Retire to get enough time to do this.
Click on thumbnails to see big picture!
Board base is three sheets of 2"x2'x8' rigid insulation.
Contours are cut from 1/2" thick insulation.
Bilious green paint is all the skill I have to reproduce fields of rye and wheat.
Nice new buildings. The old ones are too awful to show.
Truncated La Haye Sainte farm
My version of Hougoumont. Thanks to Forummers who helped on colour and details.
Burnt out La Haye Sainte farmhouse.
Culmination of 30 years of sporadic effort. The battlefield with troops all lined up, at 11a.m. on June 18, 1815. The top right just shows the church and village of Plancenoit. The priest refused to give up his mass. The Prussians are lurking in the distance waiting to make their arrival.
A majority of the figures are HaT. Without HaT's range of figures, this wasn't possible.
