Showing posts with label airfix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airfix. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

La Haie Sainte

 


For Waterloo60 we used 15mm buildings (despite the 20mm figures) as we find they give a better footprint, and for that game we even reduced the building footprints even further so they occupied more or less the right table space - so even Adrian's 15mm La Haie Sainte didn't get deployed in its entirety.

Whilst sorting my buildings for the game I decided that since my good old 20mm Airfix La Haie Sainte wasn't being used I might show it some love after the game and get it properly based up so as to minimise the chance of future damage and also make it more get-out-and-play, and look better once actually on the table. Here's the result.


The paint job is about 10-20 years old I think (I don't think this is the model I had as a kid, that one I'm sure is now separate buildings due to breakages) and I only touched it up where it was flaking off. The MDF baseboard is 40cm x 30 cm. Aquatic gravel was used for the courtyard, the hedges are my standard flocked coir welcome mat, and the "vegetables" are from the foilage that had fallen from various "bottle-brush" style trees. The base has warped a bit but overall I'm very happy with the result.


Just need to play a 20mm Napoleonic skirmish game to give it a proper outing!


Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Restored Airfix 54mm Models


Having a bit of a rearrangement of my wargaming cupboards I decided it was finally time to do something with the box of battered 54mm bits. In fact the models were in pretty good shape, the Cuirassier needing mane, arm, sword sheaf and carbine re-affixed, and the Bengal Lancer just needed a new lance. Not bad for ~45yr old models!