Terrain- Ruins

Ruins

This was the first terrain piece I built for my new gaming table, before I had purchased any MDF building kits or any other scatter terrain. It's the 'Ruined Farmhouse' plastic kit from Warlord games that came with the 'Band of Brothers' 2nd Edition Bolt Action starter set. I'd been playing BA since first edition, but bought the set primarily for the German grenadiers, the Sd.Kfz 251/10 with the PaK36, the plastic pin markers and A5 rulebook. 

The ruined house kit had been rattling around whilst I painted my Germans and Russians, and once they were both numerous enough to start using to play games, I needed to start collecting and building some scenery for them to fight across. this was my first attempt at something that wasn't a wall, hedge or a pre-bought tree.

I envisioned this being an old, broken down house that has been reclaimed by nature after being abandoned. I tend to surround it quite closely with bushes, shrubbery and trees. Looking at these pictures, I realise I went pretty crazy with the red berry clump foliage on this one. This comes from Serious Play Scenics, and I have since supplemented them with yellow flower 'gorse' shrub and purple flower clump foliage, alongside my Javis mixed green shades foliage, too.