Spring Clean Maurice

This thread will feature those other terrain aspects which don’t really require much effort, but add a little to the scene. According to the Maurice rules these are:

Walls / Rough ground / Marshes / Fields

Walls are probably the simplest to do, particularly at a small scale.  In my case I attached balsa to “lollypop” sticks, a quick & dirty paint job, add some flock and Voila – walls.  Not pretty, but I’m going for functionality first.  Perhaps later on I’ll spend some time beautifying them, but so long as they work as a terrain feature, it’ll do.

Construction was straight forward. The height of the walls was actually the thickness of the lollypop sticks and look in reasonable proportion to the figures.

For painting I used student acrylics, any green will do for the base I think, the walls were grey with added white. Then “spotted” with the same color bit with added white, and finally a highlight with pure white. (That’s probably TOO white, but c’est la vie).

Then flocked with a mixed flock (probably summer grass from Jarvis? I no longer have the original packaging) and that’s as much as I’ll do.

Next up fields.

Ploughed fields were made with corrugated card cut to roughly oblong sizes according to the min/max recommended in the rules.

These were painted in brown and “flocked” with dried coffee (not instant! but coffee grounds from filter machines).  This was ‘fixed’ in place with diluted PvA.

Once set, I glued skewers on each side for strength, but also to provide the base for “hedges” around the fields.

These were painted green, then flocked.

Another simple terrain feature.

As in most games when artillery fires there is some indication it has done so. At this scale using large cottonwool balls was too much and although these can be pulled apart into smaller balls, I wanted something a little different.

So I looked at cotton bud sticks (used for ear cleaning) and felt they were an ideal size.  So, I removed the tips from several cotton buds and glued these to off-cuts of paperclips.  These were reformed into small stands and glued to some small bases I had left over from – I think – a Perry miniatures figure box.

the bases were then glued and flocked.  Simple