Resistance hide-out

 I've painted quite a few partisans to be used for the Eastern Front, and I figured they needed somewhere to live.

Details of partisan encampments are sketchy to say the least, so I had to improvise. 

I decided to do a semi-dug in structure with a canvas roof, purely because it's something I would and could have built under the same circumstances.

I also decided to make it CD-based, since after all it wasn't just a building but also a bit of terrain.

I started off with a building method I feel comfortable with: styrene, clad with coffee stirrer planks. The roof beams thought they were going to be barbeque skewers.

Primed with chalk paint. The terrain built up with a mix of dried sand and diluted white wood glue, which gives in a rock hard result. 

Wash with diluted acrylic paint. Floor muddied.

The canvas roof originally was a tissue - a clean one, I must stress.

Canvas painted and given an improvised camo pattern.

Almost all the comforts of home deep in the forest.

ACW artillery

ACW in 1/72 plastics is a bit on the back burner at the moment, but I haven't forgotten about it yet.

This is an example of a piece I did in 2006: CSA artillerie.

The base plus accessories are from an Italeri battlefield accessories set, done in my usual way on a CD.

No idea what make the gun and crew are, I tend to mix and match stuff.

Right now I have some 500 figures, infantry, artillery and cavalry, all waiting to be organised and painted.

Not sure about rules yest, Black Powder looks tempting.