On our workshop page we will keep you informed of new products we are working on and also provide some modelling ideas for you to work with.

Workbench

We have spent most of 2009 working on our new range of Mediterranean buildings and walls.  These have a Spanish feel, with terracotta pan tiled roofs and lime washes rendered walls.  The aim with the range is to provide sufficient models to allow gamers to create anything from a farm to a village or small town.  To achieve this there will be a range of different types of building from peasant cottages and outbuildings, to wealthy town houses.  To surround the whole lot there is a wall system that will include the usual straight pieces and corners, as well as a gate and tumbled down section.

We have been asked to build some bespoke terrain in the form earth works for the English Civil War period. The pieces included straight sections, corners and gun positions with gabions. Standard enough you may say but we created a look suitable for the seventeenth century and littered the ground with lots of tools and other rubbish, but more importantly the terrain was designed to accommodate the customer's figure base sizes and the attacking bases will stand on the sloped edges.

The other main advantage of bespoke terrain is that you are not limited by the constraints of moulding. This means greater detail with the ability to have holes in things. This feature would normally result in the model being trapped in the mould and hence be impossible to achieve.

If you have terrain requirements that aren't met by current manufacturers perhaps we can help. Contact us to discuss your ideas and we will provide a quote for time and materials.

It's not as expensive as you may think.

A close up of the detail that can be achieved.

Modelling Ideas

The main idea of manufactured and painted terrain is so that you can concentrate on the time consuming business of getting the figures on the table. However should you feel the urge to have a go yourself, we thought enhancing some our terrain might be a compromise approach. Although we consider our terrain to be fantastic in its packaged form there are things you could do to it to make it even better, effects we can't achieve in the moulding process.

Creating your own desert island

Adding barbed wire to our dugout range

Creating your own barbed wire obstacles