David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Tuesday 14 March 2023

A F&IW terrain piece

I have need of a break from tricorns, from the SYW, and from Hanoverian figures; in fact from figures of any description. Of course having a second chest infection hot on the heels of the first is not really helping my disposition much. A while back now I took advantage of Grand Manner's periodic sale of raw resin casts to buy a couple of pieces for my North American game settings. I bought a large Colonial covered well and a First Nations' wigwam. 

The latter has been washed, dried and undercoated, languishing amongst the Lead Pimple for what seems like eons. So it was a prime candidate for some brush work on a larger item! I fixed it to a Warbases 100mm x 100mm terrain base, having first painted the inside and the base black. Next I painted the whole thing with Foundry Rawhide Shade. When that was dry I washed the wigwam with Foundry Black Wash. Leaving that to harden off overnight I could then dry brush the wigwam: firstly, with Foundry Rawhide Mid; and secondly, with Foundry Arctic Grey Shade. This is to match the two other Grand Manner pieces I have for my village setting.

The base is textured with my usual mixture of Woodlands Scenics buff railway ballast and washed in Games Workshop's Steel Legion Drab/Graveyard Earth to match my F&IW bases. Static grass and assorted Tufts were added finally to help it all blend together on the tabletop here in GHQ. So, see what you think of it after all the preamble ~

As I have mentioned the Lead Pimple earlier in this post I thought you'd appreciate an up date of sorts. After some reorganisation post Hanoverians it now comprises just two 4L RUBs of figures, mostly undercoated and fixed to MDF bases with whitetack ready to deploy to the painting desk when called. Mind you, that was before WMMS...

20 comments:

  1. Should I now refer to you as David The Hut rather than Mr.B.

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  2. Wigwam Bam! A very neatly finished abode there.

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  3. A very nice piece David, and a lot of painting ahead.

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    1. Thanks George. Painting, who knows? It will be what it will be.

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  4. I really like Grand Manner terrain and this is no exception. Well done David!

    Christopher

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    1. Thank you Christopher, much appreciated. As to GM terrain items: nice, yes, but vastly overpriced. Wargames terrain not works of art.

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  5. Nicely done….you need some more figures then. My pile would also fit in two really useful boxes ! Just not the 4L ones 🤔 they go pretty big.

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  6. Very nice work there Dave. Great choice and use of colour! Thank you for describing the process. I would suggest you do the second piece now in order to maintain the momentum 😉

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    1. I have to wait for the spirit to move me.

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  7. That really does look great David:).

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  8. Very suitable looking wigwam! Good work!

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  9. A lovely terrain piece David…
    You definitely need to work on a whole village…

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you Aly! I have two other buildings for the village already. I can only afford GM products in a sale!

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