Fortunately I had seen a lot of grapevines in my time, usually from the window of the vineyard tasting room, or on the labels of the bottles containing their fermented fruit, so it was a relatively simply task to create the master. In due course I cast up some 30 pieces, twelve of them were mounted on strips and used in a game and they are still used in various games today. Half a dozen pieces were given away and the remaining twelve pieces languished in my spare bits box until I had a major clean up a few weeks ago.
Over a couple of evenings I had them cleaned up, painted up and based them up as a small vineyard. Of course, because the pieces are fixed to the base, it will have to be a piece of terrain impassable to all but skirmishing troops, which is quite fitting really since it would have been exceedingly difficult to maintain a battle line in a vineyard. I did think about making the gaps between the rows of vines wider to allow line troops to move along them, but it just looked silly. Here then is the finished piece.
That looks like a proper vineyard. Most of the commercial products look like clumps of foliage stuck in rows. Lovely work Mark.
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassingly I have seen quite a few vineyards in my time (and I am staying right in the middle of one over Christmas). The original plans was to take the master pattern and make three or four variants before casting off many more, but that plan never really came to fruition...or should that be never became a vintage?
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