Sunday, August 21, 2016

Great Northen War, Norweigan Artillery and more buildings

Time to introduce the Norweigan artillery. In the comming gaming campaign Trondheim 1718 the Norweigans needs a number of fortified artillery redoubts. The redoubts are stil in the works, but the artillery is ready.....well some of it at least.
This artillery piece is manned by a crew from the National Norweigan artillery. In 1718 the Norweigan artillery had red coats and purple cuffs(at least according to my main source: "Notes about the Norweigan army 1700-1720" by Daniel A Schorr). The miniatures are from Ebor miniatures and their 28mm WSS range.
The unit above is an artillery crew from the Trondheim artillery company. Most probably this was a unit that manned the fortifications around city of Trondheim itself. The uniform has almost reversed colours compared with the National artillery units. The uniform also comes awfully close to some worn by Swedish units in the same theatre of operations. The miniatures are from Reiver Castings.
A "Hebre" - Scandinavian storage barn. The idea behind placing a barn on stilts is to keep roaming wildlife away from whatever is stored inside. The model is originally a souvenir piece that I repainted and added some minor details to it. The moose head was made from small pice of balsa wood. The platform in front of the door was reworked as well as the door. Finally I mounted the model on a piece of foam core, repainted it and added some  snow flock from Game Workshop.


This cottage is scratch built. The design is a bit different than the last cottage I built. This one is not timbered. It is still typical for region and the period. There are still such cottages standing in parts of Scandinavia, although nowadays often painted red with white frames. The red painted cottages are typical for Scandinavia, but not very common until the mid 18th century, thus the grey colour scheme.

11 comments:

  1. Stunning work matey !

    Really looking forward to see this on the gaming table at the club.

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    1. Glad you liked It. The terrain will soon be available for all club members

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  2. Stunning work and lovely to see.

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  3. Nice work, beautiful winter landscape, and magnificent colors.
    These buildings are really stunning...

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  4. Nice. What is the moose-skull on the härbre from? I assume the scratch-built house has an card-board or something core?

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    1. The moose skull is cut out of balsa wood and them covered with paint. I suspect that green stuff can be used as well. The inner walls of the scratch built cottage is made out of foam core, then covered with thin sheet of wood panels made out of wooden spatulas.

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  5. Nice. What is the moose-skull on the härbre from? I assume the scratch-built house has an card-board or something core?

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  6. Looking great and the terrain will work well for Frostgrave :-)

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    1. Thank you Joakim! :) Frostgrave is another possibility. In any case you will soon be able to use this terrain.

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