The one where I ramble about terrain, Sea People and buying the wrong grass.

As I mentioned in the previous post, this evening was supposed to be all about terrain.
Well, it both was and wasn't..

I am essentially building up my terraincollection from complete scratch, having dumped all the terrain I have built over the years on the different gaming-clubs I have been a part of. Many a box of 28mm fantasy and sci-fi, with a not inconsiderable amount of (mainly) WW2 15mm terrain.
It's a long story, like for so many of us, but I have had more than one hiatus over the years. As such, terrain has always been the first thing to go at those times.
The number of armies, mainly painted, I have sold off probably warrants a post of it's own down the line. 

Anyhow, here I am back in the hobby since a couple of years and it's finally time to build up my own tables again! While I do have a few odds and ends for 28mm started, my focus is on 15mm DBMM-specific terrain, and the (early) western theatre for WW2 in 6mm for now.

I did mention the cats right?
Here's what I mean... He's the goodest boy really, but goddamnit he is in the way now and again!

Balder in all his glory.

I need base-terrain more than anything, so for today I have continued some painting on two Rough Hills (1FE and 1/2 FE) and a Wood (1/2 FE). I have started work on a Difficult Hill at 1FE mucking about, but I kinda want to build them in pairs so I gotta take a trip to K-Rauta downtown for some more 20mm XPS before I continue.
 
On the other end of the spectrum, in the 6mm-world, the wheat-colored static grass arrived the other day and I got around to open the package. I ordered the 6-8mm long straw........
I have some healthissues affecting my memory-functions, gave me slight aphasia etc, so my brain does weird skips now and again. Especially when I need to focus on a task at hand while really tired (which is pretty much 24/7). I think I ordered this at 3 in the morning when I couldn't sleep.

Long Bois.

Anyhow, you gotta roll with the punches so as the cat skidaddled away I could slap some glue on my to-be 6mm fields and well.. It looks like something. I might rip it off or keep it as it has dried and I can put the finishing touches on the pieces. I usually like to drybrush and add a bit of offcolored flock to fields to make them look less uniform. We shall see where it ends up.

They might work as 28MM freshly cut fields in worst case. The clumpfoilage around the edges are supposed to be 2 meter tall bogace/hedges.

Apart from these two half-mishaps I chose between watching some Youtube (newest episode of Alex's Storm of Steel that I haven't seen yet) or to go watch some make-up competition show with the dear wife downstairs for the rest of the evening.
Promptly I did neither, and opted to read some of Andreas's (gaming buddy in the local historical wargaming-circle) blog that ran between -10 and -15 or so. I got about 25 months of posts into all that 15mm historical goodness and got inspired to start cleaning and mounting my Sea People force to be ready for basecoating tomorrow!

Cardboard and double-sided tape is my preferred materials for the "popsicle-method".

I am building the Wetboi-army for DBMM, but have decided to focus on a small DBA force as a starter instead of diving straight into DBMM100. It limits the workload while still giving me something to put on the table. Some might recognize the sculpts from Red Copper Minis, and those people are correct.

I have already painted 10-12 elements of them but have decided to scrap those into the bin for several reasons.
First off I don't like the paintscheme I painted them in. I was a bit quick with the brushes and went with a more medivealy theme with bright colors on the kilts, as opposed to the more washed out and muted colors that fits the period.
Secondly, they were the first 15mm project I printed when I got my printer, and ofcourse I skimped out on the resin and got the cheapest one I could find. While the standard resin works nicely for terrain and 28mm minis, it's simply just to brittle for 15mm.

Last, but the biggest reason; They are to big striaght out of the can as it were. They look like superbuff Conan-esque cage-fighters compared to all other 15mm armies I have put them next to, which goes double for the old-schooly type sculpts from the 90s. 
The STLs are nowscaled at 90% of what Red Copper Minis deems as 15mm and hit the spot. 
I might have wanted them at 92-93%, but this scaling is completely acceptable in my eyes. I mean, they are still more buff than my Fields of Glory Gepids as they sit now.

In either case, I will use the old models as proxies if needed while I paint up the rest for DBMM.

I also managed to glue some french 6mm stuff on toothpicks to get that spray-can treatment at the same time. I would like to get all my german panzers done aswell before I go out and spray tomorrow, but I guess I will have to get at it piecemeal. 

It's a marathon, not a sprint!
......I tell myself and laugh and laugh...

Cheers
/Fred
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