October was Avrupan month and I decided to concentrate on painting figures and models and making scenery, rather than try a game, though it has to be said I am still trying to find a set of rules that meets my tastes. Anyway, I have now finished all the figures I have for this project, have only a few models to go, and produced a lot of buildings and scenery.
Here are photographs of the latter, made from all sorts of domestic plastic/metal food containers, with various odds and ends added from the scrap box. Grey, or at least various shades thereof, is my default colour for Avrupan scenery. The bases are usually card or thin wood or plastic, finished off with fine sand/gravel, it being an arid/desert world. All, by the way, are for 25mm figures.
I confess I rather balk at the price of ready made sci-fi scenery, hence the homemade route, but they do for me. I probably could do with more signs, symbols, labels, numbers, etc., but as most of those available commercially are in English, they do not fit my ideas for Avrupan, where that is not a language.
A standard habitat on the left; a blown up one on the right. I am coming round to the fact that you can never have enough destroyed structures in modern or future warfare! The original piece for the buildings was an air freshener.
Some sort of factory/admin building on the left - mainly bottle lids -
and storage tanks on the right - three tonic cans.
Rocky outcrops for scattering about the tabletop.
These are made from those foam packing things that look like "Wotsits".
A storage area and various items of equipment made out of the scrap box. The pipes are paintbrush protectors, there is a cotton real, some tyres and a container spare from models, while the boxes came from some sort of equivalent to "Lego" that I have had lying around for decades. The walls are plastic figures bases surplus to requirements.
Two more factory-style buildings - the main structures were dessert tubs.
More factory buildings - dessert tubs again, with various bottle lids, although the round top on the one to the right is the head off an old roller deodorant.
Another blown up building - a few odds and ends inside.
A defensive point on the left, something industrial on the right.
Power towers perhaps? These were supports left over as surplus when we had
a new shower tray some years ago.
Another factory/admin building - the main part is half of an index card box.
Some heavy duty pipework for an industrial area. These came from an old children's toy found in a charity shop which involved putting them together to make a wind instrument!
A general picture of some of the end products. I really do have to have a game now!
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