Building a slice of Gettysburg

Just before Christmas last year, Rob Chandler and I brought our Salamanca table (form our 2012 game) from the Battlefront Miniatures office in North East, MD, down to Dropzone Games (in Glen Burnie, MD) so we could build a few new ridges and add a bunch more flock to the table. Mid-summer Pennsylvania is a little bit greener than mid-summer Spain ; )

Anyway, on Thursday we had the chance to finally put flock on everything, and it turned out to be a LOT of flock! We used the contents of three of the GW Scenery kits (all supplied by the awesome guys at Dropzone), plus about half a shaker of some dark green turf from Woodland Scenics.

Rob and I were pretty excited about the look of the table, so we just had to put all of our painted models on the table. To be honest, we started with just one regiment, but couldn't help ourselves. You know how it is...

Here's a shot of my dismounted cavalry troopers crouched behind their picket fence, horse holder in the background.

Two regiments face off at almost point blank range. Not particularly "realistic", but good for photos.

And a final shot with Rob looking over it all.

More photos next week once we have everything else in place. We hope you like it so far.

Cheers
Dave

The Field of Battle

With just under three weeks left until our game at Adepticon I figured I'd show you the progress we've been making on the tables that will make up the 12' x 6 ' battlefield. The photo above is from the south-eastern portion of the actual battlefield. While our fight takes place further north and east, this pic gives you an idea of the relatively featureless field of battle. Anyway, on with the photos.

We've put a bit of a cart track down the middle of the table, added to the surface after the original glued sand texture had dried. To add this track we simply dribbled globs of wood glue onto the table in three thin lines then sprinkled another layer of sand over it.

In the original battle, Foy's Division (French) and the Guards Division (British) basically stared at each other across a valley from the crests of two ridgelines (until Foy's Division was called on to cover the retreat of the main French army). Above are the WIP shots of the two ridgelines laid out on the floor of the Battlefront US warehouse.

Here are the same ridgelines, after being sanded, laying on top of the three 6' x 4' tables, which have been drybrush to match our basing scheme.

Relatively flat and featureless, our table will end up with a few more rocky outcrops and some appropriate flock and tufts of grass.

And here's a sample of our rocky outcrops.

Our thanks to those that have worked on the tables: Joe Krone, Brien Dulaney, and Becky
& Heath Alexander!

Cheers
Dave