6mm Napoleonic (& others) Terrain

The houses will be painted with acrylics throughout. I used a cheap set of paints for the details and a couple of “£1 store” larger tubes for the base coats.  I mixed the base coats up between white, red, grey, and sandstone to give some variation.

Doors were a brown paint and windows are dabs of blue/white. The roofs will be applied later.  Once the basic paints were done, I used a ‘felt-tip’ black liner to add a couple of lines to emphasize the doors/windows. One set of white houses I also used the marker on to give the impression of medieval style buildings and the black beams seen in places like York or Stratford etc.

As in the pictures below.

For the roofs themselves I had acquired some veneer last year in a variety of colors, but I used the grey one with a thin coat of reddish paint to simulate roof tiles.  The “Elizabethan” style houses I stippled yellow ochre acrylics and allowed to dry “impasto” to give a textured finish. This I later washed with a diluted brown mic to add some depth.

The next step was to make the first town base.  This was constructed using a 4″x4″ square of card which I then also layered with brown paper to add some additional strength.  I would have preferred to use thin MDF but it’s not something I can easily obtain here, so card it had to be.  The thickness was something like cardstock, although I think a little less compressed.

The “town” will be made on the same sized base as the army units for the game (Grande Armee) and in-game, the town base would be replaced by a unit base if/when it occupies the town.

Once the base coat was dry, I stippled on various shades of green paints and some light brown for tracks or mud on both the town base and the larger base.  Finally I added some “trees” made from home-made clump foliage, and when dry dry-brushed some light yellow highlights.

Next up will be one of the larger “city” tiles which will follow a similar process, but I will primarily use grey for the base colors and introduce some flocking for grassy areas.

Happy gaming