Over the summer, I have prepared and now finally painted some more terrain pieces. I have added more Scandinavian style fences to my collection. They are 20 cms long and I did seven in one batch, i e 140 cms. I now have something like 3-4 meters worth of these with the ones I have built and painted previously. They were scratch built from plant sticks, which I split down the middle and glued together. They are a bit tedious to build, but quick to paint up. For a pre-modern Scandinavian farm landscape, you really cant have enough of them, as even the smallest patch of land was enclosed by such gärdesgårdar.
I also painted a dung heap – essential for any rural landscape 🙂 – and a couple of haystacks. The latter look like they could perhaps more accurately be described as very large bundles of grain sheaves, I am not too sure. Both haystacks and dungheap are resin pieces made by 1st Corps miniatures, if I remember correctly.
Below these pieces are a couple of plowed fields (made out of flexible rubber) which I bought somewhere online a few years ago. I havent really used them and feel like I ought to paint them in a more suitable color, especially the lighter, reddish-organge ones (I have 5 or 6 of these in total). Ill try and experiment with different color combinations, washes and drybrushing. But I suspect they will require a fair amount of paint.
Some nice work and interesting to know about scandanavian landscape. I have an interest in the Schleswig wars where the field boundaries were equally distinct humps of stone and earth as I recall
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Yes, this type of fence was not used in Denmark and probably not in the duchies either. They are a typical feature of the parts of Northern Europe where you still had predominantly forested areas, so Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia. How far they were used into areas like Prussia, Poland, Russia and so on I am not sure.
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