Monday 12 November 2012

ACW signal tower

Inspired by a blog post from Christopher at Bunker Hill back in January I decided to have crack at making my own signal tower.  The tower itself is made from twigs from the garden glued together and then bound with cotton soaked in PVA and then painted.  The figures are all spare artillery figures from Foundry.






Might look at doing a Union group and another tower one day but this would be after our large Gettysburg game.

29 comments:

  1. Very nice and unusual, I really like it!
    Phil.

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  2. That is a very impressive looking bit of kit. Will be shamelessly copying it soon!

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  3. Really terrific, Rodger. Its amazing what you can do with some twigs from the garden. The soaking-with-PVA trick is a must - and it really works brilliantly.

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  4. Very nice models , good look and good paint .

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  5. Out of sight Rodger! Great work and something interesting. Well done.

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  6. Looking splendid Rodger !

    Best regards Michael

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  7. What a great job Rodger, superb Sir!

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  8. Great work! IMO scratchbuilt projects, in most cases, always seem to take the model's scenario-scene-ambiance to uplifted heights. This project is a high-up-one, Sir.

    Painting the troop bases the same color as the tower's platform is a winner.

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  9. Fantastic piece of work, you have inspired me to do some gardening.

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  10. Scratchbuilding and cheap too, damn good work Rodger!

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  11. I've not seen one of these done before. Bloody brilliant work here sir!

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  12. What an excellent job, well done that man!!

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  13. I'm happy you found something inspirational from my blog post and turned it into something of your own. Very well done Rodger and it is a great example of creativity. Super work!

    Christopher

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  14. Very clever - a nice diorama for your games

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  15. Very simple and very effective, Rodger. Looks good too. It would make an unusual HQ/command element for pick-up games, or a feature of campaign and scenario battles. Very handy.

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  16. That is very effective and clever, great table piece

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  17. Nice indeed....it's got some multi-period potential, too. If only I had twigs in my garden...

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  18. Excellent idea and brilliantly executed.

    What else do you have planned?

    Russell

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    1. I have some buildings planned but other than that just a heap of Rebs to get painted at this stage.

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    2. Thanks for all the comments guys I really appreciate them.

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  19. As usual, bloody brilliant.
    Now you can get a good look at your damned rebs as they skeddadle off the table.

    Hancock

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  20. Very cool the figures and the tower look amazing great work

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  21. Nice scratchbuilt tower and painted figures!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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