Assyrian army

Assyrian army

Tuesday 5 July 2022

Dunwich - an interim setup

Been messing about with this on and off for the last few days and finally decided this would be the best set up to most closely mimic actual Dunwich - though still very much an impression of the place rather than an accurate model!

This is a view from the beach down the length of the village. Attempts to place the village along the short edge of the table didn't work - not enough room - so this was the obvious best option.

 

This is the village from the church down the street towards the sea. The sea is on the table, honest. You can even see a little bit of it in the top left hand corner. Likewise, the sea wall/flood defences. I simply put a row of little business card boxes under mat across the beach. In the photo they just all merge in.

 

A picture of the whole table including the sea! Building models are all 1/87th scale which makes it awkward as far as cars go - don't have much that small and larger scale ones don't look right!

 

Another view down the table. One option on this would be to move the wood forward a bit. In an actual game I think I'll take out the sea wall - doesn't add anything to any scenarios.

 

The picture of the car park shows why the cars are too big! The few smaller scale ones I have in the background are much better. The car park itself I would probably 'lose' in an actual set up. Possibly a line of fisherman's huts would be better - I'm working on them at the moment!
 


4 comments:

  1. I do like this, it captures the essence of place very nicely indeed.
    Alan Tradgardland

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  2. Thank you. 'Essence' pretty much sums up the intention.

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  3. Looks like a good venue fir some Pulp action...1/87 buildings ARE very small of course...almost 15mm in wargames parlance...whereas the Matchbox Yesteryear are, I believe , 1/43...so oversized even for28mm figures.....not that I let that stop me using them in my Pulp (and RCW) collections!

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    1. Treating both xxmm and1/xx as scales...
      1/100th is roughly 15mm, 1/76th roughly 20mm, 25mm was defined by Minifigs as 1/72nd, 28mm is 1/56th and 1/43rd is bigger! So 1/87th is roughly 18mm?
      A lot of my vehicles for Pulp are Lledo and cover a few scales from 1/72nd to 1/43rd - they do look a bit silly with these buildings. On the other hand, 20mm wargames figures and vehicles work fine.

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