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Scratch-Building 1700s 20mm Town for Battle of Trenton
For the last week or so I have been building 20mm Americal Colonial buildings like a fiend … becuase I’m getting ready to run the Battle of Trenton in 20mm on the December 26 anniversary and only recently remembered three facts.
1) The Battle of Trenton takes place … in Trenton.
2) Trenton is a … town.
3) I have virtually no buildings for this scale and period.
So I’ve been building… All by hand, all from scratch.
Here's my little town so far ... You can see some of the boxes I've been using for construction still stacked up in the background.
Downloaded what skins I could find, then did some Photoshop work to scale and assemble them the way I wanted. Maybe here we have some "Sons of Liberty" staggering out of a local pub.
The biggest building I have so far is church. I needed one, the Trenton Presbyterian Church was the biggest physical structure in the town at the time, made of stone, and so is an actual tactical feature. Also, the German commander is buried in its graveyard, you can visit his gravestone to this day.
These are all just "cubes" of cardboard, but with a little but of detail, peaked rooves, and by assembling smaller "cubes" together (With a little work in Photoshop and a pinch of patience), you can get some fairly realistic and more complex shapes.
With enough of these (I'm *mostly* done, I have maybe 5-7 smaller ones left) I hope to approximate most of King Street and Queen Street leading north out of Trenton, where much of this battle took place.
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