World War 2 at sea
Terrain for the Pacific Theatre
I’m still looking for a large gaming mat with a dark, oceanic water texture to my liking. Many are a bright blue and don’t much look like a deep ocean from above, but I’m confident I will find one.
This also got me thinking about some terrain. Good thing is: In the pacific theatre, many engagements took place in the vicinity (at least in nautical dimensions) of islands large and small, or were fought to gain or prohibit control and/or use of such locations.
The first island I plan to build will have an airfield with appropriate facilities, most likely used by the Japanese. So I’ve started scratch-building some detailed structures in 1/1800-scale – the first two being middle-sized hangars for housing and maintaining fighter planes and/or bombers. The one with the doors wide open is finished, the other one is a work in progress:
These are really cool. Are they just plasticard?
Thanks. Yes, they are just made out of plastic card.
Have you tried blue fake upholstery leather? OTT used it several years ago for a river under Pegasus bridge and it worked very well. I used it myself for WW2 beaches.
Thanks for the suggestion – I’ll have a look into it.
Wow your project & ship’s look fabulous. @fourtytwo congratulations on the gold button.
Thank you!