French and Indian War in 28mm

Following the season’s festivities I’ve returned to my FIW project…but with one slight distraction from the main effort; I decided to build and paint some carts and wagons instead of pressing on with the Mohawks I must have painted!  Oops…but doing something of associated benefit is better than doing nothing at all.  It all helps eat away at the painting pile.

The wagons, carts and horses shown in this entry are from Warbases, with the exception of this lovely supply wagon from Perry Miniatures (I plan to swap out drivers).

Assembling the Warbases models was a doddle but I soon realised that I wanted to put these on bases.  I’d intended to be able to swap the few horses I had between carts/wagons as required, and the bases would allow me to move the combined unit more easily.  I also didn’t want to glue the carts/wagons to the bases as I could use them as scenery, so the bases would have a slight interference fit to snugly hold the cart/wagon.

I used the same fibreboard from my last post to make individual bases.  On these I glued thin strips to hold the models in place, and some random bits dotted around to provide elevation.  This was liberally covered with filler and then textured with fine sand.  At this point the bases were far from impressive but some paint and a blend of flock (different colours and different lengths) produced a result I’m pretty pleased with.  When flocking I find keeping some patches bare helps give a credible look, although I will probably add a few flowers as a finishing touch.