Challenge Submission #1 - Ruined Hamlet and Stone Bridge

 This the first year in which I have participated in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. My submission for the first week of painting consisted of a variety of terrain pieces in 28mm scale to be used with Bolt Action or The Great War.

 The Ruined Hamlet consists of four models of a Ruined Farmhouse in hard plastic from Warlord Games that I bought during a sale of 'four for the price of three'. They can now be purchased individually, or as a 'Ruined Hamlet' box of three. Each set consists of a two story building plus a one story shed. While they are quite generic for 'somewhere in Europe during the last 400 years', they will work best for either WW1 or WW2. Assembly can provide some variation as to how the walls fit together, I would say that there is definitely a 'preferred way'  that results in a 'best fit'. Once all the building and rubble piles were glued together, I mounted them on bases made from some pieces of scrap 3mm Masonite board onto which I had scored lines to look like floor boards. I then glued down some coarse sand around the walls to blend them into the bases. The ruins were primed in black using a rattle can, and then painting using Vallejo acrylics. Once the painting was completed I added some flocking along the edges.

 

 The Stone Bridge is manufactured by Italeri, but marketed by Warlord Games. It comes as a 6 piece hard plastic boxed set that goes together very smoothly to give you a single arch stone bridge that would work on any battlefield in Europe for the past 500 years. After assembly, like the ruined hamlet, it was primed black using a rattle can and painted with a selection of Vallejo acrylics.

 Thanks for reading, and good luck to my fellow Conscripts who are also participating in the Painting Challenge.