28mm Chechen civilians

Chechen project nearing completion, here are some civilians.

The very last Chechen fighters!

The very last of my 28mm Chechen fighters, Empress figures.

Last Chechen figures

The last of my Chechen figures completed, all that I have left to do is finish my Grozny apartment block and a captured Tiny Terrain T62 😉. Onto the figures, all Tiny Terrain. Dougie

 A couple of snipers and a Chechen warlord

 AGS17 team

 Some prone fighters, 2 more snipers!

Casualties. 

28mm Grozny Destroyed Apartment block part 1

My gaming oppo has a lot of mdf destroyed city buildings that we've been using for our Chechen games, I wanted to try my had at scratch building a destroyed apartment block using blue craftfoam, I wanted it heavily destroyed with rubble but still usable as a gaming piece, so having all levels accessible for figures.
This is the sort of building I had in mind.

I did some rough sketches of what I wanted mainly to get the levels right, I standardised doors at 35mm x 20mm and windows at 20mm x 20mm. A level worked out at about 55mm high. I eventually decided on a 6 level block with the upper level slightly taller to allow for a walkaround area. The block ended up at 350mm high and to keep it manageable I kept the sides to 300mm and the endwall with the lift shaft/stairwell at 200mm. Once I was sorted I cut the basic structure out of blue craftfoam

The structure was glued and pinned using standard white glue.

 The floors added.

I made the base, again from 5mm craftfoam backed on 2mm mdf for strength, and carved in some cracked pavements. I considered the rubble question and obviously with the amount of destruction the building has had the rubble would be piled to the first or second storey, this would however make it very difficult to place figures so I decided to add some rubble to give an impression of the destruction but still make it accessible for figures. The rubble itself was a mixture of broken pollyfilla that had been poured into a tray to set then smashed and Woodland scenics talus.

  The whole building was then sprayed with Halfords grey primer, virtually a full can!!!

Next up in part  2 is the painting proper and some small amounts of detailing, I find it really easy to get carried away with details so I'm trying to keep this to a minimum. Hopefully!
Dougie

28mm Empress USMC Hue '68

First test figs from the cracking new range from Empress

28mm TTCombat Cargo Ship

This is the 28mm cargo ship from TTCombat, now appearing as the "JPO SAM" from Alliance Shipping out of Monrovia. Built straight from the pack with a little weathering.

20mm British Internal Security vehicles Part 1

For "Winter of '79" and Ulster use, Sgts Mess models. I picked up a couple of Landrover Snatch's and A Humber Flying Pig with the fold out screens. Easy kits to assemble.
Here is the Snatch assembled

 The Pig comes with solid screens which wasn't what I wanted

Here's a pic of the version I had in mind

Any hoo used the basic dimensions and knocked a couple up out of plasticard, happier with these

On to painting next.
Dougie