Terrain: Battlemat and terrain pieces for SAGA

For our games of SAGA, I have once again expanded my terrain collection - on the one hand a new battlemat made of acrylic and on the other some (wheat) fields, woodland and rocky terrain.

For the rocky terrain pieces, I have kept one of it more traditional (just some rocks :-D ) and interpreted the other one more freely: a burial in ship form - as you can still find them today in some parts northern Germany and above all Scandinavia

The fields are made from teddy fur to get some practice for a large gamingmat made from this stuff - one of the advantages of this material is that it adapts well to contours, as one can see in the pictures.

Gaming mat as wip - just the acryl with mixed in sand and some first drybrushed highlights after it was dry:

The finished mat with the grass flocked on as last step:

And the smaller version for the Sweetwater-Forum:

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Terrain: Mediterranean buildings

Some more 3D printed buildings, again designed by Jens Najewitz of course.

This time they are from his mediterranean range and are suitable for a great range of times and settings - from Greece, over Italy to Spain.

I treated the walls with a thin layer of spatula and replaced the printed wooden beams of the veranda with home-made wooden beams before painting the houses.

Especially with the roofs, I tried to achieve the typical Mediterranean very colorful look and painted many tiles individually with different red and orange tones.

The roof of the windmill was designed in the print file as a thatched roof, but I did not like the appearance of it.
To adapt it to the appearance of the tiled roofs, I have rebuilt it from individual bricks made of cardboard.
Furthermore I made some sacks of flour from Greenstuff and a old millstone just for adding some details ;-)

I like the result, even if it was very time consuming.

And smaller versions for the Sweetwater:

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Terrain: More trees and the first 3D printed buildings

After I had seen more and more terrain from the 3D printer at various wargames events, I was tempted to test it once and so when the Anycubic Mega-S, which is considered particularly beginner friendly, was on offer I took the chance ;-)

For the first tests, I downloaded some files from Thingiverse, as they are all available for free.
However, after that I wanted to use profesionally created files afterwards and there is nothing better in my opinion than the different projects of Jens Najewitz - considering the many files contained in each project, they are also extremely cheap.
Above all, the beauty is that the individual floors and roofs can be removed from the buildings and they can also be designed and played in the interior, so they are perfect for wargames!

Here are the first two buildings from the Dark Age project.
The half-timbered house is just printed and cleaned up, as I wanted to see how it looks then painted.
For the 2nd house, I plastered the walls with a sand-glue mixture.

And since you can never have enough trees as a wargamer, I built more trees * gg *

The trunks are armatures from Woodland and a few  really ancient HEKI kits that were designed to be flocked with Iceland moss - after modelling the trunks with Miliput they even look quite good now!
All the treetops are made with foliage from Woodland again and the flocked with different leafs.

HEKI before and after ;-)

Smaller versions:

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Western: Sheriff Jimjohn

No ACW this time, but not far away, both in terms of time and location - a sheriff of a small provincial town named Dingstown.

I bought this miniature at the CONflict Rheinland from Axel at his Dingstown table.
It represents Sheriff Jimjohn, who guides the reader through Axels Dingstown rules, intended for Western (and more, we even used them for Colonial and Colonial-Horror setups) skirmish games, like Ragnar through SAGA.
The miniature is cast very cleanly, so it hardly needs time to clean it and is really nicely modeled.

My Jimjohn was not supposed to get the usual leather cloak, instead I opted for one made of Indian wool, and he's supposed to be a Civil War veteran still wearing his blue cavalry blouse - so a little bit it stays close to the ACW; -)

Small versions:

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