I decided I wanted to try and make my own, but my next problem was finding a technique or method that I felt represented what I wanted my rivers to look like.
They can look very artificial (which is a bizarre thing to say about a fake wooden/ plastic/ resin water feature) and often come in garish bright blue colours that really put me off. I don't like any of the professionally manufactured versions on the market. Since I'd been a boy of ten or eleven, I'd always looked in awe at pictures in Wargames Illustrated and White Dwarf and dreamed about having a beautiful scenery-laden gaming table, I was starting to get there, but there was one feature I was struggling to get hold of.
Seeing all of these elements grow and take shape was enormously pleasing. A couple of buildings grew into several and I started to feel like I had enough 'stuff' to fill a small table and battle across it. Trees, hedges, fences and walls are all early purchases/ builds.
My armies grew, and then my gaming table started to take shape. Wheels were set in motion and my decades of fantasy and science fiction gaming shifted firmly into a historical setting which has always been of enormous interest to me. As years passed and children grew, the world carried on turning and circumstances changed, I found myself able to revisit wargaming and model-making again, and discovered a (then) new ruleset for WW2 called Bolt Action. Life, work and children had all contributed to the gradual decline and then my eventual departure from all things hobby related. DĪ few years ago, I returned to tabletop wargaming, model making and painting after many years away from a much-loved hobby. Fair warning- there's a bit of autobiography before getting to the pictures on this post. In a roundabout way, this particular element of wargaming terrain is the main contributing factor to why I started creating a blog.
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