Terrain For Leipzig: Part 7

I've spent the past few weeks expanding my collection of terrain items for Leipzig. The latest batch includes a townhouse, a bridge, some brick walls, an update on an older building and some trees and plowed fields (the trees and fields will feature in a future blog entry). 

The townhouse is an MDF kit from Sarissa Precision; their East European Townhouse. I upgraded the roof a wee bit by adding strips of styrene to cover the seams and giving the appearance of a metal roof.

The base is scribed Foamex over MDF 

The bridge was actually started a couple of years ago; one of three that I had bought for Wagram (see here). It is also a Sarissa Precsion kit.

Even with the width trimmed down, it still strikes me as a bit over-sized for 15mm.

The brick walls are from Fenris Games. Really wonderful resin casts; I have been very pleased with everything I have bought from Fenris. These came with a bit of minor warpage - you can see in the photos how there is a gap at the top of the wall from the warping - but nothing that can't be hidden with strategically placed vegetation.

They are actually for 28 mm but the sculpting is fine enough that they work for 15mm if you don't look too close. 

The only thing that is a bit a disappointing is that Fenris do not make gate posts for these walls; I will have to make some as I think they would make good walls for the city of Leipzig.

Although time consuming to paint, very satisfying and I am happy with the result. 

I scratch built this church from Foamex for Wagram but I didn't have enough time to do the paint job I usually like to do. 

Plowed fields and autumn trees up next. 

Terrain For Leipzig: Part 6

 With so many communities on the battlefield, providing buildings to represent them is going to be a collective effort. I have approximately 12 of my own already, but I picked up three more from Warbases. Specifically a few of their rural German buildings from their 15mm Buildings range:

As usual, I made some modifications to the structures:

 I used some Lepages Plastic Wood Filler to texture the walls of the farmhouse and some Gorilla Glue Wood Filler (natural) on the barn and outbuilding, including the daub infill:

The farmhouse got a roof of Platers Plasticard, fish scale tiles: 

All the siding, beams and thatch rooves were primed with Vallejo's Parched Grass primer; the tile roof got hit with a coat Rustoleum Paint &Primer spay, brick red:

The walls of the the barn and outbuilding were textured with Gorilla Wood Filler and the thatch rooves were made from the same. I then brushed the thatch with a moist coarse brush for texture:

I used the Parched Grass primer as the basecoat for the thatch; I am pleased with both the texture and the colour. It is probably the fastest and simplest thatch roofing I have ever done.

Normally I like substantial bases on my buildings that I can add some landscaping to but I left these as is;  the base they come with has a small lip.

These are larger buildings than the Sarissa Precision and Battlefield Accessories products; I think they are designed with skirmish gaming in mind as the rooves and second stories are removeable.

I loved working on these and I am tempted to get a few more.