Salute Scatter Terrain #3

Some more bits of scatter (and small) terrain have finally made it from Salute to a finished state. Above are a couple of rabbit warrens (OK, pre-date Salute) and some dead cows! All 20mm.

Some nice wicker fascines from The Square. Lots more of their stuff to come, greater supplier. Again 20mm.

Nice 28mm smallish skip from Blotz. Will get some bigger ones next time.

Not really scatter but some 6mm "barracks" from Blotz. In fact I'm treating them as semi-industrial/farm buildings as Estonia seems scattered with them. When I get some more I might cover up the windows and go for a grey/asbestos or possibly beige colour, but these metal ones are a good start.

Salute Scatter Terrain #2

Next batch of 20mm scatter items, mainly from Salute:

• Signpost
• Stile and signpost
• Two lots of free range pigs

(Actually none of that lot from Salute!)

Salute Scatter Terrain #1

Finally got the first batch of Salute scatter terrain pieces done. Here in 20mm we have:

• A monument (actually bought at Dorking Model Shop, not Salute)
• A stone store of some sort (actually a well mis-shape)
• A metal drinking trough.

And from above:

(PVA still drying in trough - or could be ice!)

Then in 28mm:

• Some pylons/markers/force-field/beam generators (again misshapes)
• Some breezeblock walls (again misshapes)

Beavering away on the next bunch.

Wargame Model Mods ISO Containers

Two of my new year resolutions in one!:

• Buy a piece of 28mm scatter terrain every month
• Post more often to the blog by having an easy way to do work-in-progress shots

I wanted some ISO containers as they are a versatile bit of scatter terrain that will go with any modern/SF setting. Whilst there are some lovely detailed "proper" ISO containers around I was really taken by these ones from Wargame Model Mods since:

• You get four for £17.99
• They have a really nice style to them that will work in SF and modern
• You actually get 8 objects since the interior hex module slips in and out (very nicely engineered niches on the module and the frame). So you can have 4 hex accommodation modules and 4 empty frames.

In fact it gets even better as as long as you leave one end off the frame (which does admittedly then mean that the hexes don't fit so well) then you can make your own rectangular box to fill the space - I'm busy working on that now using some foamboard - so 4 modules and 4 filled ISO containers!

Highly recommended!

   

The other part of the resolution comes from the blue background. So as to have something quick, easy and neutral to photograph things in I got a bit of A3 blue card and then cut out the side of a Cheerios pack into a flap and then stuck the card as a curve inside it. When not in use the whole thing folds back down into the Cheerios box (same as I do for my spray "cabinet"). The ISO containers are a bit bigger than what it was intended for (so you can see the sides), but should be great for figures and single vehicles.

And I did remember just in time to get a shot of the containers with a 28mm figure.