Let’s Build Saint Nazaire! WW2 Terrain Project Part #3 – Adding The Buildings
April 4, 2024 by avernos
Gerry continues with his plans to revamp one of our old boards and some of the terrain for Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2024. The idea is to build this using inspiration from Operation Chariot, crafting a Saint Nazaire port and dock from World War II for games of Bolt Action and 02 Hundred Hours in 28mm.
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In this third video, John and Gerry show off the buildings they'll be using from Sarissa Precision and what they can do to add more detail to the World War II terrain pieces.
We have some tricks for adding lights into the mix as well as ways for us to cover the flat roof sections and create more character in the buildings. There are also some plans for potential defensive gun emplacements. John just needs to find one...
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does being 1st here count?
Gantries are great for smaller boards to give it a greater perception of scale.
Watch towers and searchlight towers too. Maybe flak towers as well?
I’ve always wanted to build a docks board. It feels like most of it should be roughly valid for the past 100 years and in to the future (even if you have to squint a little) just by changing a few minor pieces to tie it to a period.
That’s a lot of wood… uhm… MDF
The corrugations on the roof should run vertically to allow water run off.
Great looking board.
Great looking board. Could use train tracks perhaps ?
I see you have the , its not as easy as it looks on building mdf buildings, I brought some of the clear pva
was going to use it for water effects as my previous source for cheap water effects seems to have disappeared.
Does it dry quicker, as the set time for PVA is often the biggest bug with mdf buildings?
Looks great. Those Sarissa buildings are very effective.
Just finished watching all 3 episodes of this all together, really really nice series seeing a table build happening again it feels like forever since we’ve had one.
Gives me a lot of ideas for my Entropy City board that Ive seen slack on.
Lovely work as always.
I’ve been eyeing up the sarissa 0200 terrain bundle for a while, so it’s great to see how well it fills a 3×3 table, and how many extras you guys put down to see how full the table needs to be.
This is a great project. It has me wanting to finish my Dredd terrain from Sarissa.
One thing I’ve found helpful in building Sarissa buildings is priming the MDF while it’s still in the sprue(?). Not sure of the technical term there. After priming, I then assemble and paint. Makes it much easier to paint after assembly if you prime prior to assembly.
Hmm, I wonder if some of the Sarissa trench systems could be incorporated as the access points to some of the underground machinery and pumps that were targets of the raid?
That terrain will look fabulous on the table’s guy’s
The board is coming along well. It looks like it’ll be fun to play on.
Great to see a board build!
im confused as to why the crane kit has wheels the way it does, would have thought they would be 90 degrees to allow for pick up and moving of stuff
it’s a strabokran gantry crane, they’re used for tank repairs on Tigers and the like, the wheels are that way because they were foldable to be towed along for repairs on the front lines, so it didn’t move once deployed the wheels are just to get it to the action.