Flames of War Armies & Table Build
Background on the Project
After watching Field Marshal Warzan role out the nacht wolfen (& his flying saucers) and the OTT crew build of the Normandy Tables, I got inspired to do something of my own.
I have never played tabletop war gaming before but always wanted to. Being a scale model builder, I got really excited when I watch the OTT videos on Flames of War.
When it comes to building scale models, its go big or go home for me. As an example, below is my 1/144 Schwerer Gustav Railway Gun at 111cm in length.
1/144 The Schwerer Gustav Railway GunI love building dioramas with tanks (German Tanks specifically – hint on which army I will be playing). So building a Flames of War Table and armies is sort of the best of both worlds for me.
The table will be 6ft by 4ft. I will be using mats and making my own scatter terrain as well as using some building I found online (all to be improved and painted of course).
With this coronavirus pandemic, I hope all of you are safe and healthy. I am in Kuwait with a complete curfew in place. So things will be a little slow on the project in the beginning. I think can get started as I will have a few things arriving over the next few weeks – all for the project.
Sounds like you’ve picked a terrific build for your first project, I can’t wait to see how it develops. The Gustav looks amazing.
If you need help with anything as it’s your first game, reach out and I’ll do what I can to help, or find someone who can if I’m not up to snuff. 🙂
Much appreciated !
The Gustav looks fantastic – could be a great centre piece for a battle in FoW, even if the scale is a little out!
I really enjoy my FoW, it’s an easy system to get in to and enjoyable to play, so a good choice for your first game. There are a few good projects here covering different aspects of the game but I’ve also played for a number of years, so feel free to throw any questions my way. I can’t guarantee a good answer though!
Thanks for the offer. The Gustav would indeed make an amazing center piece but its too big to move even as a model XD.
That is excellent
Is the Fujimi model?
Its by Hobbyboss
Good grief, @Abbaz ! Tell me you’re not putting that Schwerer Gustav on the table! Is that the “sister gun” to the 800mm “Dora” gun?
Just for fun, I calculated what the dimensions of a P.1000 would look like in FoW 15mm and with a little Photoshop, put a “virtual model” into a photograph of normal 15mm German armor.
Good luck on the project! Stay safe!
Its too big :D. Also it has a heavy acrylic cover protecting the model… So its strictly for display….. for now. Actually there was only one gun made. Named Gustav after its designer. It was given the nickname of “Dora” by its crew. German military, particularly the naval branch, named the turrets of warships as Anton, Bruno, Caesar & Dora – (following the alphabet A, B, C & D). So Dora was used – unofficially. The “myth” of another gun exists because another 800mm gun barrel was found. It was actually a replacement for the Gustav, as after around 40… Read more »