The Last War - The Old Artillery - Finished

 Good enough for me. Not 100% like I had intended it to be, but it looks the part :)

 

 

Review: Warbases Large Concrete Hut WW2-LCH (aka The Shed)

 I've picked up a number of Warbases items this week and I might as well make a review of some of them. or maybe all, eventually. I paid for all of these with my own money, no donations and I'm most certainly not getting paid for this review.

This is 28mm Large Concrete Hut WW2-LCH and cost me 5.83 GBP excluding tax.
Well lasered, very small connecting points so easy to push out and clean up. I noticed Warbases uses the edge of the bases to cut out round bases of various dimensions to make better use of the empty space. I think that is a smart and economical thing, although I like having those leftovers to scratchbuild and fix things with. 

I did notice the MDF does not have the same coating as Sarissa Precision does and in places it's a bit rough and fibrous, even more so after my method of painting (Agressive sponging).... but only really noticable close up. Cleans up as normal, takes glue and paint as normal. The doors do feel smaller than I'm used to and it doesn't feel as tall. Once I have more stuff finished I'll set it next o ther kits I have.

(And then I went and deleted the pics of the MDF layout cause of course I did....<sigh>)

Building was quick, I did miss not having nubs on the base to align with the holes, but this gives you the option not to use a floor at all (or glue it top the top and the roof on top of that so you have a box with an open underside as I know some people like that. I'm not one of those people). But with the floor down and the walls glued to the side you only need to slot 2 inserts, a door and the windowframes. They both come as a full sheet of the same thickness MDF that you can glue behind the opening. My preference would be card but thats more of a habit thing. The MDF parts for the window don't line up with the walls so you need to shuffle it a bit after adding glue. Easy and again no issue. It does leave a gap at the end but I sawed off an offcut of MDF and glued that in place. The door fits nicely, but the detail is only engraved on the front. It is not lasered through so you can't remove the door to leave it off or keep it slightly ajar like I like to do. Well, not easily anyway. It's nothing a proper modellers saw can't handle :) The result is though the inside lacks a door, but adding a rectangle of card would give a nice impression of one. I just did not bother this time.

With cleaning it took me maybe 15 minutes to build. I feel no battlefield should be without at least one shed. Like water and food they are a essential part of life. 

I added windowsills out of scrap MDF and used thin cardboard to enhance all of the vertical columns. I added scrap MDF strips underneath the roof so it lays in the same position. After painting I added overhead transparancies for glazing.

This meant for my Stalker build but is generic enough to fit everywhere (in a semi modern setting).

I'll give it a 7 out of 10.

And now the result.

The Last War - Scenery WIP 2

 All the wood is now finished, and craters made and spackeled. A few detailing bits to add like a shrine or a ladder and then it is time to hit the primer for everything and start making a muck mix for the top, as well as coil all the barbed wire.And then it is creature time, I'm already working on a few testers to see if I like the look etc.   

The Last War - scenery WIP 1

 I literally dropped one of my entries on the floor thanks to my brilliant hands and I gave up on them all. Seeing my hard work shatter in many pieces.....yeah.

So, I grabbed a sheet of free styrofoam and cut it into smaller bits and made 2 test pieces for The Last War.
Those came out really good, but 5cm was too tall so I recut everything I had made down to 4 cm. 

And that's how I have been spending my evenings. They are big, durable when dropped.

I'm doing them as tinned sheet and wood trenches. Everything completely in wood really nackered my wrists so that was out. I'll be adding details to some, but not all. I only need enough for a 2x2 area, but making more than enough to cover a 4x4 table for Killteam as well (might as well, right?)