6mm WW2 Scenery

[greywulf]

I am trying to make up some scenery and small towns for my WW2 DBA [soon to be purchased from CinC miniatures]

we are designing scenery around the eastern front, so mine fields, trenches, cottages etc.

but what size do I make the scenery. I have never made any thing for this scale. [more used to 28mm stuff]

the figs are going to be based on 40mm width and go from 20mm-40mm depth.

Mine fields are easy to make its just the size of the terrain, I was thinking 80mm width by 200mm length, bit it seems a large area for minefield.

Barbe wire was going to be 220mm length by 40mm width.

Any ideas?

Cheers
AJ

[JamesLDIII]

I am trying to make up some scenery and small towns for my WW2 DBA [soon to be purchased from CinC miniatures]

but what size do I make the scenery. I have never made any thing for this scale. [more used to 28mm stuff]

the figs are going to be based on 40mm width and go from 20mm-40mm depth.


If you are making "linear obstacles" then I recommend making the length a multiple of 40mm, if your unit frontage is 40mm. I would say depth no more than the depth of your deepest element. If you are having a 2 foot table, then I would say make no single mine/wire obstacle longer than 120mm (3 elements) wide. Depending on how mines and wire get cleared, you might need to go with 40mm wide sections so you can represent breaches in the mines/wire.

If you are making WWII equivalents of BUAs, then whatever your rules suggest is fine.

[greywulf]

thx thats what I was thinking of doing.

the rules for scenery is not really spoken much by Damond Crump. its sort of follows the DBA scenery. But alot of that may not work for the WW2 version.

will give it ago thx

[Bardolph]

There are lots of commercially available buildings for micro armour.
Try Scott over at www.paperterrain.com for some nice preprinted paper building sets.

If you want to go a cheaper way-
there are these buildings to print and assemble. They are roughly scaled for 10mm so you will need to reduce them a bit. They are pretty German looking though, not terrbily Russian.

http://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/Werken/Weihnachtsberg/weihnachtsberg.html

You could also buy some wooden blocks at a craft shop and simply paint them up as apartment blocks etc.

[greywulf]

thx for that.

we are trying differnet methods to get some interesting terrain.
So far I've made 3 barbe wire sections 40mm by 120mm, [2 full ones and 1 that has been blasted so a tank or infantry could go through, would be bad going for them].
3 mine fields and 2 aircraft hangers. we are using our rivers and hills from our 15mm DBA armies so no probs there. Am looking at making up some dirt roads, hedges, tress and trenches this week.

Also will attempt to make a bunker or two as bases.

cheers

AJ

[greywulf]

There are lots of commercially available buildings for micro armour.
Try Scott over at www.paperterrain.com for some nice preprinted paper building sets.

If you want to go a cheaper way-
there are these buildings to print and assemble. They are roughly scaled for 10mm so you will need to reduce them a bit. They are pretty German looking though, not terrbily Russian.

http://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/Werken/Weihnachtsberg/weihnachtsberg.html

You could also buy some wooden blocks at a craft shop and simply paint them up as apartment blocks etc.

how much would I need to reduce to make them work in 6mm [1/285th]

also I found some 15mm buildings as well. whats the scale to reduce them.

cheers
AJ

[greywulf]

I am converted some of those paper houses are fantastic.

Dowmloaded about 5 of them from that site and made one up last night. will fit nicely in with my other terrain I ave been working on:

2x aircraft hangers
1x air strip
3x mine fields
3x barbe wire
1x emplacement [infantry]
1x guard tower
1x prison [base]
1x gun emplacemnt [base]
2x hedges
2x tank blockades [dragons teeth]

Still to make:
roads
lake
waterway [beach] <--- have all ready made up a large river (Rhine etc)
swamps/march
soft ground [not sure what type to use mmmm???]

any other ideas of stuff i'll need?

[dg]

I am trying to make up some scenery and small towns for my WW2 DBA [soon to be purchased from CinC miniatures]

AJ

Got a link to DBA WW2?

[greywulf]

Got a link to DBA WW2?

http://www.fanaticus.org/discussion/showthread.php?t=5413

Go to the above thread it has the link to rules page and some comments about the rules. I have been spending alot of time going over the rules and have found some interesting things that are very different from your standard DBA games.

Also the army lists are ment to be balanced but I've found so far the russians can out gun the germans very easily. Also Artillery, Infantry are very powerful.

Cheers
AJ

[greywulf]

One question I have been forgetting to ask.

Whats the best way to seal your terrain. I use flock and it flakes off. Previously I've used a watered down PVA glue mix to stop this. any other ideas that can work. [I use acrylic paints so would need something that can work on that.]

cheers
AJ