Gaming Scenery Page

"Beneath whose awful Hand we hold - Dominion over palm and pine" -- Kipling, Recessional, 1897

Scenery
for Colonial Gaming

There are miniatures gamers who believe scenery is merely functional, that a strip of orange cardboard can serve to mark a wall as well as a model of a wall. The Major General frowns on this attitude severely. If it isn't pretty, it might as well be a boardgame. Not that gaming models need to be scaled, finished out, and detailed as well as a serious display modeler might do; in fact it is better if they are simpler and somewhat more abstract or cartoon-like. A simpler model will stand up to constant handling, will function better in a game with very limited space, will set up and take down more quickly, and will have more of the charm reminiscent of childhood play with toy soldiers. The trick is to make the modeling attractive, suggestive of what it represents, and effective as a game aid. There are hundreds of ways to do good gaming scenery. Here are some techniques which have worked well for the Ouargistan group.

Ground Surface,
Hills and Vegetation
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Palm Trees
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Water
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Tall Grass
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Mountains
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Build a simple
Tabletop Periscope
See your scenery from your soldiers' viewpoint.
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"Visual appeal is everything"
--------------------- unofficial motto of the Schild en Vriend Miniature Wargaming Club, Leuven, Belgium

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