W1815 - Waterloo war gaming at its finest?

But of course, in increasing the size of the counters to full on stands of figures, the board is looking rather too small.

I could print a larger one on paper, or even good card, but that’s not where this is going.

I wanted to make a full scenic representation of the Waterloo battlefield to play this game across.

Starting with printing off a large map showing the contours on the area, I traced each line onto a piece of foam board and stacked them up, giving me the general shape of the hills and dells of the area.

roads are marked on in (very subtle…) pink highlighter at this stage to make sure I didn’t cut along them!

Since my foam board sheets were too small, it had to be constructed in a number of sections which in itself led to the next idea – not making one single board on a flat plane, but a multi-part board in the form of a box that would expand out.

photo is from a couple more stages down the line as I got carried away for maybe a day and a half without thinking to record it at all!

Second image is a fast forward once again. I marked out the exact positions of each of the units on the board, adjusting positions slightly where contours meant stands would no longer sit cleanly.

Using Vallejo scenics to modulate the transitions and add patches of texture to the large open areas of the board, being careful to leave the areas for the models clean and also defining the routes of the roads by giving them mounds along their edges (not entirely historically accurate but useful definition at this scale. )