Book Review of
Wargaming Terrain & Buildings
N. Africa & the Middle East
Author: Tony Harwood
Pen & Sword Books
ISBN: 978-1-52671-643-9
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-52671-643-9
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $22.95
The Middle East and North Africa have been the backdrop for many conflicts through the centuries, making them a popular setting for miniature wargames.
Whether you are fielding your Parthians against invading Roman legions, Crusaders against Saladin’s Saracens, retreating Lawrence’s exploits in Arabia, or trying to halt Rommel at El Alamein, this book will help you set the scene for your games.
Expert terrain modeler Tony Harwood takes the reader through a range of projects step by step, from selection of materials to the finished items. Each stage is illustrated with color photos. The projects have been selected to provide a useful range of features, but also to introduce materials and techniques the reader can then apply to further buildings and terrain pieces.
Included are a range of traditional mud-brick dwellings/shops, a mosque, a well, palm trees, rocky outcrops, a Bedouin tent, Sudanese huts, a colonial gunboat and El Alamein railway station (assembled from an off-the-shelf mdf kit). These projects are easily adaptable to different scales and suited to novice and experienced modellers alike.
The book contains a varied range of step-by step project in several scales and using a wide variety of materials. The techniques and skills explained can easily be adapted and applied to building an even wider range of buildings.
The book includes advice on tools, building materials, paints and tips for building your own collection of wartime terrain. Fully illustrated with details and step-by-step color photos.
THE AUTHOR:
Tony Harwood (aka Dampfpanzerwagen) is a very experienced maker of miniature wargame terrain and buildings and well known in wargaming circles for his informative “how to” articles and books. He lives in Droitwich near Worcester.
The book is soft-bound of 152 pages in 6 ¾” x 9 ¾” page format.
The cover shows a color photo of Harwood’s model of a mosque.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Notes of paint used.
Tools and materials.
Section One: Mud Brick Houses
1. Simple: 28mm Mud Brick House no. 1
Illustrated with 33 color photos. Built using foam-board and DAS brand modeling clay.
2. Intermediate: 28mm Mud Brick House no. 2
Illustrated with 49 color photos. Built using the dame materials as House no.1, but with better techniques.
3. Bir Acroma Well 28mm Mud Brick Hose no. 3. Illustrated with 32 color photos. Built with blue foam and insulation foam, DAS putty and PVA glue. A dome was added to the roof.
Section two, various scales
1. 15mm Gunboat Melik
Illustrated with 29 color photos. Built using 5mm thick laminate flooring foam onto plastic card, glued with PVA glue.
2. 15mm Middle East/African Mosque.
Illustrated with 36 color photos. Built using 5mm thick foam boars. The roof dome was made from half of a novelty pepper grinder. The minaret was constructed with part of a pen. PVA glue was used.
3. 28mm railway station at EL Alamein.
Illustrated with 26 color photos. Built using the Sarissa Precision Ltd. Kit no. N120 and superglue and DAS clay.
Section 3, African Huts
1. 28mm Generic African Thatched Hut.
Illustrated with 20 color photos. Built using corrugated card board and foam. Dome strengthened with strips of torn newspaper and PVA glue. Some green foam additions and DAS.
2. 28mm Sudanese Domed Hut.
Illustrated with 8 color photos. Built with corrugated cardboard, half of a ball and DAS modeling clay.
3. Rough Ground/Rocky Terrain
Illustrated with 20 color photos. Built with a rough oval of 3mm thick plastic card, an old compacted disc, cork bark, insulating foam, PVA glue, fine sand and small stones.
4. Oasis: Bedouin Tent, Well and Palm Trees
Illustrated with 30 color photos. Built with a 3mm thick plastic car base and tent, well was built out of foam and DAS modeling clay. Palm trees made from the leaves off artificial roses on a card base coated with DAS.
This is a neat book. It will be of great interest to wargame modelers.
Highly recommended.
Whether you are fielding your Parthians against invading Roman legions, Crusaders against Saladin’s Saracens, retreating Lawrence’s exploits in Arabia, or trying to halt Rommel at El Alamein, this book will help you set the scene for your games.
Expert terrain modeler Tony Harwood takes the reader through a range of projects step by step, from selection of materials to the finished items. Each stage is illustrated with color photos. The projects have been selected to provide a useful range of features, but also to introduce materials and techniques the reader can then apply to further buildings and terrain pieces.
Included are a range of traditional mud-brick dwellings/shops, a mosque, a well, palm trees, rocky outcrops, a Bedouin tent, Sudanese huts, a colonial gunboat and El Alamein railway station (assembled from an off-the-shelf mdf kit). These projects are easily adaptable to different scales and suited to novice and experienced modellers alike.
The book contains a varied range of step-by step project in several scales and using a wide variety of materials. The techniques and skills explained can easily be adapted and applied to building an even wider range of buildings.
The book includes advice on tools, building materials, paints and tips for building your own collection of wartime terrain. Fully illustrated with details and step-by-step color photos.
THE AUTHOR:
Tony Harwood (aka Dampfpanzerwagen) is a very experienced maker of miniature wargame terrain and buildings and well known in wargaming circles for his informative “how to” articles and books. He lives in Droitwich near Worcester.
The book is soft-bound of 152 pages in 6 ¾” x 9 ¾” page format.
The cover shows a color photo of Harwood’s model of a mosque.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Notes of paint used.
Tools and materials.
Section One: Mud Brick Houses
1. Simple: 28mm Mud Brick House no. 1
Illustrated with 33 color photos. Built using foam-board and DAS brand modeling clay.
2. Intermediate: 28mm Mud Brick House no. 2
Illustrated with 49 color photos. Built using the dame materials as House no.1, but with better techniques.
3. Bir Acroma Well 28mm Mud Brick Hose no. 3. Illustrated with 32 color photos. Built with blue foam and insulation foam, DAS putty and PVA glue. A dome was added to the roof.
Section two, various scales
1. 15mm Gunboat Melik
Illustrated with 29 color photos. Built using 5mm thick laminate flooring foam onto plastic card, glued with PVA glue.
2. 15mm Middle East/African Mosque.
Illustrated with 36 color photos. Built using 5mm thick foam boars. The roof dome was made from half of a novelty pepper grinder. The minaret was constructed with part of a pen. PVA glue was used.
3. 28mm railway station at EL Alamein.
Illustrated with 26 color photos. Built using the Sarissa Precision Ltd. Kit no. N120 and superglue and DAS clay.
Section 3, African Huts
1. 28mm Generic African Thatched Hut.
Illustrated with 20 color photos. Built using corrugated card board and foam. Dome strengthened with strips of torn newspaper and PVA glue. Some green foam additions and DAS.
2. 28mm Sudanese Domed Hut.
Illustrated with 8 color photos. Built with corrugated cardboard, half of a ball and DAS modeling clay.
3. Rough Ground/Rocky Terrain
Illustrated with 20 color photos. Built with a rough oval of 3mm thick plastic card, an old compacted disc, cork bark, insulating foam, PVA glue, fine sand and small stones.
4. Oasis: Bedouin Tent, Well and Palm Trees
Illustrated with 30 color photos. Built with a 3mm thick plastic car base and tent, well was built out of foam and DAS modeling clay. Palm trees made from the leaves off artificial roses on a card base coated with DAS.
This is a neat book. It will be of great interest to wargame modelers.
Highly recommended.
I would like to thank Casemate for sending this review sample. Their website can be found at: