Cows, dead & alive

    The Farmyard Animal box of Warlord Games includes four plastic models of cows. I had a couple of metal models of dead cows, which I added to these four and my cattle herd for the battlefield was ready! 

The herd

   Though I really like the Holstein breed with their distinctive black and white markings, I chose to follow a monochromatic brown color scheme, which was far easier! 

   The herd took part as terrain pieces during one of our games, where an Italian Blackshirts force fought against the Red Army somewhere on the Eastern Front.

Red army NKVD agents and soldiers

Red army soldiers

The Italian Blackshirts

Two lovely Semovente

   Unfortunately for the Red Army, Antonios' Blackshirts were victorious!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

More animals and an exhibition

   I bought the Farmyard Animals box of Warlord Games to add some animals to our battlefields. The box has geese, chicken, sheep and pigs among others. I also had a dead horse to add some drama!

 

   Recently, I visited the annual exhibition of static models in Chania. The majority of the models were airplanes in 1/48 scale and tanks in 1/35. I took photos of a very nice diorama and a couple of interesting models, one of each of the three domains of warfare.

SAS jeep (Land)

LCVP or Higgins boat (Maritime)

Polikarpov I-153 Чайка (Chaika = Seagull) (Air)

   The last is a model of Nikolai Polikarpov, a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer known as the "King of Figthers"!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

More hedges

   I added some more hedges and a couple of trees as terrain pieces for our Bolt Action games. Some of the hedges are made of green cleaning sponges, which I covered with underbrush of various green shades from Woodland Scenics and glued them on mdf bases.    

The battlefield

The green cleaning sponges

   I also had a plastic tree trunk, which I cut in two parts, glued them on balsa wooden pieces,  used some green stuff and added lichen in order to make two nice little trees. 

One of the trees

The hedges and the trunks of the trees

Trees with lichen on them

The hedges with underbrush of various green shades

The rest of the hedges covered with lichen

I painted them dark green

and highlighted them with medium and light green

An NKVD agent to scale the hedges of lichen,

the hedges of underbrush

and the trees.

   We used all the hedges and the trees on the battlefield during a game Germans vs British. Antonios, my friend, with his British was victorious!

   That's all for today! Stay tuned for more!