Thursday 20 August 2009

40mm: Fort Zunder

After finishing my bridge over the river oudear I had a lot of 'minibrix' left over; I had a couple of fortress type guns sitting in the 'what to do with?' pile - aha ! a fort could be useful. I had enough minibrix left to make up a few wall sections and two gun positons - these were based on cardboard and sprayed with grey primer.

In the lower reaches of the province of Tripavia, in the south of the Kingdom of Wittenberg sits the small garrison town of Zunder. The fort is the local recruitment and training centre for the Wittenberg army; it is manned by a company of garrison troops. Currently in training are some replacements for the Boritzy Freikorps grenadiers (who suffered heavy casualties in the last raid by Saxe-Jarslberg), plus some artillery crew practicing on the fortress guns.

The fort from the sharp end (it faces a small gap in the range of hills that is the border with the Imperium).

A view from the side

A view down the main street of Zunder

[Figs: a mix of 40/42mm ranges; garrison company - Irregular Miniatures; grenadiers and artillery crew - cast from Creartec moulds; civilians - mostly Sash & Sabre with a couple of Eureka]

5 comments:

Bluebear Jeff said...

It looks good.


-- Jeff

Fitz-Badger said...

Cool!
Those are some big guns!

Mad Carew said...

Superb looking scenery.

littlejohn said...

Cool fortress! What are the walls made of?

old-tidders said...

Walls were made of some 'minibrix' which are no longer in production
[see http://www.architoys.net/toys/toypages/minibrix.html].

You could use the smaller Lego bricks to make buildings and walls

-- Allan