Collins Does Afghanistan 2013-2014

Having found the models and the desire to play a game I was acutely aware that the terrain I had immediate access to at home or at my FLGS was not wholly suited to Afghanistan. Sure they have some desert mats and Male a battlefield in the box oasis but really it was all suited to 40K and other futuristic games. Great if you want to play those, not so good if you’re like me and enjoy the visual spectacle more than the actual gameplay.

I have the luxury of having a 3D printer (Prusa i3Mk3) that has proven to be very good at knocking out terrain (see my Star Wars projects)

I went looking for war I thought were decent files. I have quickly learnt that to have truly decent files you need to compensate the artist. Aka, pay for the files! stop being cheap, and cough up the few £ these people ask for.

That doesn’t mean however that you shouldn’t go looking for free or cheap ones! some are perfectly adequate for your needs. For example, this modular arabic style building is a freebie for you to test print and then decide whether you want to buy the rest.

I downloaded it and did a print, was very happy with it and happily parted with my money for the rest of the village files.

I have also considered buying these big sets of files, but from the pictures I feel that they’re nowhere near as detailed as the ones mentioned above and aren’t happy to take a £65 gamble at the moment.

That paint scheme for the buildings was quite simple.

Base in Coastline, dry brush Ahoy and then wash Soft Hessian.

To detail or rather weather I mixed an amount of brown and green paint and dabbed wash into the bottoms, corners and stairs.

The most important step I feel was green/brown. Made a lot of different to the ‘lived in look’