WARGAMING WITH NAPOLEONIC MINIATURES
Rafael Pardo
a cemetery
During the urban figths in the Napoleonic era, the cimeteries (graveyards)
sometimes played a distinguished role. This one is my last addition to the
urban scenery for the Campaign of Leipzig
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A view of the materials: 2mm cardboard,
water-based paints, liche, sand, stones (litter cat), white and
cyanoacrylate glues, wooden matchsticks and LITEPLAST paste |
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The walls and the
foundatios are cut into the cardboard and then glued with white-glue,
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The walls and gate are glued onto the surface of the cimetiere along
the four pillars of the corners |
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Some graves are added,
leaving space for a least seven infantry bases, and the walls and
terrain are covered with modelling paste |
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The exposed soil is covered with white glue and then sparked
liberally with sand. After drying (around two hours) the excess of sand is
eliminated |
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The soil is primed dark brown, whereas the walls and pilalrs are in
light grey |
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The soil and foundations
are covered wuth
white glue and sparked with static grass |
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The crosses are made from
spared plastic sprues adn placed into position with superglue and a
pin |
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The pillars of the gate are
made with matchsticks glued over the carboard into a prism shape |
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The iron grilles of the
gate are made by inserting pins into the carboard priming in black
and painting in gun-metal |
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The crosses are painted and
then some decorative paint flakes and plants are added |
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French Light Infantry
deployed in the cemetery |
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TERRAIN
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