Bienvenue à Braguette

This is what I have painted so far as part of my 6mm scenery project: the French village of Braguette, near Labitte. I was not supposed to work on these before 2011, but my last order of Wood Elves got late and I just could not let Dallas get ahead of me :-).

Most of the buildings are from Leva. I've met the sculptor/caster/CEO Alain Lévesque a few times in Montréal. He was kind enough to cast for free the missing part of an Ork Gargant, so I could finish the model. He was very open to suggestions and RobertR was not lacking ideas. When we were into 6mm Cold War, Alain sculpted for us LCAC Hovercrafts for the Marines. His 6mm buildings are quite large for the scale, but they sure do stand out on the table. One critic we issued Alain was that his buildings had too many windows. The truth is that we were too lazy to paint them. Some buildings in the lot are rejects: Alain was trying different formulas of Resin and he would give away the unsuccessful ones. Some of the material feels like dried clay. There is also a rejected master, behind the wind mill, on the right, probably because it was too small and had no windows. The three farm buildings with red roofs in the background are from GHQ.

Here is a close-up on the mairie with a 28mm figurine to give an idea of the actual size. I like the little arch. It has no strategic value whatsoever, but it adds a nice touch to the scenery.

The Voice in my head made me do this

For some time now, whenever I am brushing my teeth in the morning, I can hear a voice in my head whispering me "to build the Aspern Church in 28mm scale", an important landmark in the Napoleonic battle of Aspern. I built the main chapel last year, and it is now displayed in Curt's kitchen. Now I just finished erecting the "Refectory" (see the circled building below).



The building comes in 4 sections and troops can be deployed on the main level, on the second floor and in the attic.

The little 28mm British skirmisher provides a reference for the size of the building. The roof has simply been textured with a ballpoint as it would be too much work to make tiles for a roof that size. The structure showed remarkable resilience to the juvenile assaults of my 3 year old daughter who "playtested" the "nice dollhouse". Dallas, the voice in my head told me that "the ovemind will be painting the building", so do I get any points for just building this house? It took me two days (well, since the last painting update I sent you yesterday morning).

Strange enough, whenever I go to the loo lately I can hear a new voice in my head suggesting me to paint a 28mm Russian army for Napoleonic wargaming...