I have been working on a new project for my 28mm W.W. II game I am planing which will take place in a city, I have numerous propaganda posters and commercial signs and such. I have been trying to get the feel of a city that has been under the stress of battle so have been looking to add wrecked cars and street lamps, sidewalks and such as well as adding other items that would be there that are normally not represented on tabletops. I am still researching W.W. II photos and adding more to it until I am satisfied.

I have taken some photos of some sample scenes before I actually start the gluing, filling and painting, the buildings are the new Precision Model Designs “City block” buildings which are buildings that are made to line up next to each other to form City blocks – very cool by the way – and their new European sidewalk pieces which are all planned to be release soon.

I will be adding rubble and such and PMD has some really nice pieces you can see in the photos. here is the progressed so far, not complete but you get the idea.

The gray matt the city building are on you see in the pictures I have used before as the bases for my city, I am thinking of adding roads to it with bendable rubble with cobblestone imprint so the matt can be folded and put away and pulled back out for easy use. However once I add the roads it kinda places then in a fixed format so not sure I want to got that route yet.

Still working some things out though…

The building with the Balcony and extended stair/ landing I plan to add columns (most likely will be pencils with a carved columns into them) which extend to the ground from the bottom of the balcony.

Above are real autos wrecked/ destroyed in World War II and below are ones I am currently working on…

The Autos are something I have always wanted to do and with the help of some friends it has happened, there will be plenty of these burnt out vehicles to hide behind and fire from when it is finished. The resin bodies and metal fenders and such make so you can bend the fenders up and over to show very realistic wrecks and such. (A big thank you to the guys who made this possible!).

I have also etched into the windshields bullet holes and cracks and such (tried to get the in the photos). One of the trucks I gave 2 flat tires so I have having a lot of fun with these.

The sidewalk sections are nice in the fact they have a lot of detail and are able to be added to the fronts of the buildings to custom fit by cutting them the exact size of the building front width and then I write on the bottom of the sidewalk sections which building it goes to. the curved sidewalk pieces can be added on the ends so the sidewalk goes around the building to end your city block or to extend further out till you decide to end it. They are making more types to accommodate different city walk ways – very nice item to add detail to the city 🙂

Finally here are some shots with the miniatures in and around, I plan to do a lot more work on this and will take more photos as it is being complete.

Thanks for taking a look and stay tuned for more

WARLORD