Ardennes 44 - Terrain progress

 While I have been still coughing and spluttering with the winter lurgy - which has made it hard to paint detail stuff - I have managed to progress on terrain building . I have left my permanent table (8x4)with the Ardennes set up on it and have started adding more to it . This last week has seen hedges , rail fences , frozen pond , icy patches , and banks of mist and fog ( yeah !) 

20 feet of hedges initially

It really doesn’t go that far - will need another 12 I think at some point

12 feet of rail fencing added -  with another 12 of wire type. To be completed 

Frozen pond - MDF base , built up sides, green paint , varnish , Matt varnish and tufts 

Icy patches . I used an empty laminate pouch - heated up and cut to shape and given a light overspray of Matt varnish .Then added some of my home made tufts 

Mist / Fog. I had a bag of cushion filler from the local haberdashers (yes we do have one! )

It was scrunched up / twisted and given a grey spray - then repeat a few times . I like it and I think more will be made.

The table is coming together . More terrain bits to add still :-

Wire Fences 

A stream and bridge

Power and telegraph poles

Gardens baseboard for the buildings 

Fuel dumps - a perfect objective marker.

I have added a new Panther for my Panzer Lehr force 

I have also just ordered some rear echelon US stuff . Ambulances , Signals truck , to add to forces .

I am enjoying doing this one - another long term itch scratched.

Ardennes 44. Skorzeny Kommandos and Oddball

 Cough, splutter, wheeze, rasp - that damn Lurgy has me by the throat at the moment. My first proper post of the New Year sees a revisit to the 15mm Ardennes 44 project. I have been acquiring things for a few years to create a winter themed table. While of course it hadn’t snowed at the start of Battle of the Bulge it wasn’t long in coming. So what the hell, let’s jump right in creating a whole load of new terrain and figures .

What better to start the Germans figures off for this than Skorzeny’s Kommandos kitted out in captured American kit and sowing confusion and panic on the roads, or maybe sneaking off to kidnap Ike .

 

While rooting around in the stash for these I also found Oddball from Kelly’s Heroes - issued as Eightball by Battlefront as a limited edition tournament marker. Well he might just be in search of a bank over winter so that’s along too .

A longer gun, large speaker and a mad Canadian going Woof - what’s not to like. 

More terrain works to come .