I was pretty happy with my Burmese battlefield but our Experiment in Ningthoukhong proved I needed more. More temples. More houses. More roads. More bunds. All this kit can do duty in the Burma Campaign in WW2 and most of it is good for Vietnam.
More Hindu Temples
You might recall my Custom made Manipuri Hindu Temple for 14th Army. Well one is never enough, right, so I got two more. I’m sure I can use three temples in any refight of Bishenpur, Potsangbam and Ningthoukhong. The original had a red trim. The new ones have blue and green trims. As with the original Hindu Temple, I designed the kit and Warbases laser cut them from MDF.
More houses
I’m pretty happy with the houses I featured on my Burmese battlefield. But I ran out of houses for our Experiment in Ningthoukhong so I need more. I tried not to be excessive so only three extra houses – all of them on stilts – from Sarissa Precision: Far East 15mm.
More bunds
I got a bunch of straight Crests in Crossfire in preparation for our Experiment in Ningthoukhong. These aren’t actually crests; they are for walkways inside the village; apparently the whole village was crisscrossed by these raised walkways. Outside the village the same features serve as higher bunds between the rice paddies. Unfortunately, when setting up the game, I realised I didn’t have enough straight pieces and had to use a few of my curved crests instead. I have rectified that and got a whole bunch of long straight bunds.
More low roads
Having used my Modular Raised Roads sections for Burma, I realised I needed low sections of road to match.
The road I use most often is a low dirt track. It is fine and I’ll keep using it. The trouble is that the old dirt track is quite stylistically different to new raised road. I painted the new road so resembled a dusty hard seal road. The old track has deep hoof marks. The two don’t match.
So I made a bunch of low road sections in the new road style.
Observations and conclusions
Obsessive idiot.
You’ve done a great job on those. I’ve generally found that time spent on terrain is rarely wasted!
Beautiful and inspiring, thanks for sharing!