WWII Ruined French Café

[Drumstick]

Well I just recently bought the German airborne along with the rulebook so I wanted to try a simple small piece of terrain for a start. The thought was to have a sort of trenched defense most likely for artillery guns. This was loosely based on the Company of Hero's British defenses - you'll know what I mean if you've played the game. Right now it's just an idea taking shape so it looks pretty shabby at the moment, so bare with me - and also that grey foam stuff sucks..







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[carvel2]

looks a good start to me

[Drumstick]

Cheers Carvel, will try going for smaller projects since I never finish the bigger ones, lol.







Yep I'm happy it should work
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[Cubster]

There's nowt wrong with work so far, that looks cushty.

Chuck that grey foam muck away man and get yourself some insulation foam. It's so much easier to work with.

[Drumstick]

I do have insulation foam but it's very thick stuff, which means I have to work with it outside in the garage (& it's freezing/raining here) so I don't fancy it. Any the foam will be cover with textured paint or sand so you won't even know. Just kinda sucks to work with it.

[Drumstick]

Another quick update:
What do you guys think I should add inside? I only had some idea's like barrels, ammo dump, crates, maybe a howitzer - camo net on top?







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[Big Al]

Looks good. A camo net would be good. Sprinkle some dried tea leaves on it for foliage and then paint it. It looks like it would make an excellent AA gun nest.

[carvel2]

Camo net for sure..brewing up kit of some description?

[Drumstick]

tea leaves - good idea! Although I only seem to have the dried dark brown stuff, will post a picture below. Is that the stuff you normally use? I think the camo nets a good idea, although I haven't thought how to do it & it'll be quite awkward to position troops under it.



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[Parus Ater]

You could have the net poles higher that the front than the back, giving a sloped net roof. Very common to do if you're covering a gun or a mortar nest so perfectly historically accurate. We've done it ourselves based on photographs at re-enactment events.

Loving it so far, btw.