I’ve just finished some quick hedges for my 20mm scenery collection. They were very quick to do, a mixture of metal fence sections of unknown provenenance as well as some K&M Trees hedge sections and plenty of sponge clumps. They were mounted on toungue depressors/ craft sticks.
I couldn’t help but add a surprise in one section though: a flame fougasse. Basically it is an oil drum filled with fuel which is blasted across the road as a huge one shot flame thrower. Britain ‘seeded’ many roads with them in the summer of 1940 in anticipation of a German invasion. More details can be found here. For reference the oil drum was an Under Fire Minatures casting.
Watch for its apperance in and up coming scenario ;).
Cheers,
Pete.
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Those should prove quite useful! The fougasse is a new trick for me, hadn’t heard of that before.
Thanks Jeff. Always good to have bits of terrain like this to hand.
The fougasse must have been a horrible surprise not to mention a horrible weapon to be hit by too.
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Pete.
They have come up great. Like them!
Thanks Dave. Quick to do and they look decent too.
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Pete.
The best kind!
Closer, closer, come hither little Pzkpfw II aaaaand BOOM !
You have the idea mate- almost like you know the scenario….
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Pete.
They look great man
Thanks- glad you like them.
Cheers,
Pete.
These are great Pete, I need to do some hedges for one of my games and I’ll be sure to return to this post for inspiration!
Thank you- glad you’ve found it useful.
Cheers,
Pete.
I liked the hedges and then BOOM you had a flame fougasse! There was a detailed how to section in the old Combat Engineer pocket manual – and I always wanted to make one. I looked at that so many times I know I still could (though I obviously would not outside of a combat situation which I will hopefully never see thank God). The design is simple but in the Army I could never get access to a couple of the pieces (thermite grenades and fuel thickener) for training let alone find a firing range that would permit us to blow one up. I do believe they were used in Vietnam, but burying a 55 gallon drum vs using a claymore seems a lot of work. Still, glad to see this stuff! Nice job.
Haha, great stuff Mark! 😀
Thanks Mark- I wondered what you would make of this post given your background. I guess you spent as much time learning how to blow things up as you did learning how to build things….
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Pete.
That is the way of the combat engineer…😁
Very nice pieces, Pete.
Having thrown Molatov Cocktails at tanks on live firing ranges at Voegelsang in Germany, I would not like to see the effect of 55 gallons going off at once! 75cl made quite an impressive “splash” as it was.
Regards, Chris.
Thanks Chris. I guess that part of training was quite good fun. Did you have to make them up yourself or were they supplied to you premade?
Cheers,
Pete.
Nice decorations and the surprise barrel is pretty awesome! Well, I guess it is as long as you’re not there when it blows up!
Thanks. Given the pictures I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it when it goes off.
Cheers,
Pete.
Nicely done hedges there, Pete! 🙂 I think mixing and matching the different components has worked well!
Thanks John, as you may have guessed they are for a scenario inspired by your gift. I’ll send you a copy of it tomorrow.
Cheers,
Pete.
Actually Pete, I never put two and two together there, but that now makes sense! 🙂
Sorry- forgot to do that email- will do tomorrow now.
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Pete.
Great pieces. Can never have enough terrain.
Thanks- never too much terrain, just too little storage.
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Pete.
Haha well, fair point.
Very nicely done mate, love the secret barrel charge too!😉
Cheers Roger.
Thanks Roger.
Should be a nice surprise come game day.
Cheers,
Pete.