Well, that escalated quickly! Sometime back in August, I decided to buy a handful of minis for each of the four countries featured in the book ‘Hitler's Blitzkrieg Enemies 1940: Denmark, Norway, Netherlands & Belgium’. Less than two months later, I now have a completed 500 pt. Dutch army for Bolt Action and components to build Belgian and German armies of similar size!
Those
armies need some terrain to fight over, so I also bought this MDF kit from
Sarissa Precision. I think it captures the look of a Dutch farm pretty well. The
only thing I didn’t like was the look of the tiled roof, so I used an old towel
to represent thatching. The towel required a lot of glue to stick it down,
because the towel and MDF both kept soaking up the thinned down wood glue. With
some perseverance, though, I think I got a pretty convincing result. The pattern
on the window shutters was a lot of fun to paint and is based on designs common
in my area.
Every farm needs fencing, so I made a bunch of fences from some wooden coffee stirrers. I designed them to be about chest height for your average 28 mm scale mini. The fences were hot glued to 2 mm thick plasticard, which was then textured with used coffee grounds, painted brown and flocked.
I also had
these cheap model rail road trees laying about. I didn’t really do anything to
the trees apart from hot gluing them to some washers (size M10) and then
texturing, painting and flocking the bases.
Finally, I
also made some craters. The craters are based on 2mm plasticard and the lips of
the craters are made of DAS air drying clay. Top tip: DAS clay does not like to
stick to plastic, so add a little bit of wood- or PVA glue to your base (you
don’t need a lot) before you start sculpting. This should stop the clay from
sliding about when you are working. After letting the clay cure overnight, I
again textured the bases with used coffee grounds, painted them and applied my
flock.
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