Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Terrain Tuesday: 28mm Sarissa Manassas Stone House

It’s Tuesday again and time to show off another piece of scenery for the war-games table.   This is the Sarissa Manassas Stone House in 28mm which was a fairly easy build from the flat-pack, though I did manage to get the root cellar door on the wrong side wall and only discovered that when the glue had set.   One overestimates MDF kits at one’s peril!   It sits beside a stand of pre-made trees which I bought at a show and glued onto an old Windows CD with some ground texture and flocking, so perhaps this counts as two terrain pieces.  Hooray! 

 The house will work for my ACW and alt-ACW battles.  It has a big footprint on the table, so perhaps more suited for skirmish games.   I didn’t apply any texture to the walls.  Rather, I focused on the laborious task of picking out the stonework in every shade of grey at my disposal, to give the impression of an old field-stone farmhouse that one still sees in my part of SW Ontario.

Having the self-imposed deadline of a blog post on terrain gave me the incentive I needed to finish this piece and get it off the work desk.  Hopefully it will feature here soon, as an ACW battle is next in the gaming schedule.

Blessings to your projects!  

MP+

12 comments:

  1. Looks grand from here Mike, nicely done!

    I use CD's for all my large bases. Far cheaper than the mdf alternatives.

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    1. Thanks Dai. CDs are indeed useful, I use them a lot as stands for 2-3 trees, as a few of them add up to a forest pretty quick. I think I even have some AOL CDs still licking around! :)

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  2. Very nice.... I would count that as two.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. I'll take credit for two then! :) Thanks Stu.

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  3. Definitely counts as 2 terrain pieces, I like the picked out stonework, that works really well,the trees are good I find a cd is a useful size for a tree stand,also enjoying your paper terrain!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain. As I said to Stu, CD-ROMS remain useful even after CD drives have largely disappeared. Can't say that for VHS and Beta tapes! :)

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  4. Terrific terrain on a Tuesday, all your efforts have been well worth it.

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    1. Thanks Alan, I'm happy with the results. I'm finding that with Ontario in ANOTHER lockdown (the UK is now far ahead of us) I have more time for at least 30-60 minutes a day of workbench time. It all adds up.

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  5. Very nice work and should be useable in many eras

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    1. Thanks mate. I just discovered and followed your blog! Your horse and musket figures are ace.

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  6. Great looking building very useful in a lot of settings I reckon.

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    1. Thanks Simon. Especially useful for Sharpe Practice and skirmish games, I hope.

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