There was a bonus round on the Analogue hobbies painting challenge (AHPC) called "defensive terrain". As I have decided NOT to spend any money on new figures for the challenge, but just to slowly reduce the lead mountain I was a bit stuck as to what to do for Defensive terrain. And being a cheapskate I decided that I would actually make some tunnel entrance markers for my Vietnam collection. 2 MDF round bases with rectangular tunnel entrances painted black. And yes they are hard to see deliberately. Then just painted to look like all my other Vietnam bases. So just some very simple indicators of where the tunnel entrances may be. I will not actually be building the tunnels so I only need a marker for the entrance, As you can see in the first picture they are quite small and very well disguised as the lady in question holds a trap door over her head and once in place would be very hard to tell from the jungle floor. 
But some were found and the US army had a specialist unit (which I will not be representing on the battlefield) of "Tunnel Rats". The Latin motto is in no way rude and does not include Rat or arse in it WHEN translated. But I will leave it to you to translate.On a side note I have really struggled with Blogger today to the extent I was about to start the whole blog again. But luckily some luck and a little patience has seen it restored back to how it should be. Morale of the last paragraph is do not click buttons too fast! But Panic over and "Normal service is restored!"
Very novel but smart looking counters there Clint.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carl. It is just a little extra depth (pun intended) to a Vietnam game.
DeleteAnother clever solution Clint, very nice Sir.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael. It should be something I can use.
DeleteWhat a great idea and well executed mate :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Simon. Tunnel entrances do need to be marked on the table some times but rarely need to be explored in game.
DeleteGreat idea for an in game marker.
ReplyDeleteYou'd never get me down one of them though.
Cheers,
Pete.
Thank you Pete. I cannot see myself going down there either
DeleteClever, clever, clever.
ReplyDeleteThanks Irqan. I did not actually NEED any tunnel markers, but now they are done I am sure they will get used.
DeleteI think your excellent piece could just as easily have been named "Japanese sniper" it's so difficult to see (just like it should be). BTW the way to reducing your lead mountain is to stop puchasing more lead (and plastic) imo - but that's easier said than done isn't it ?
ReplyDeleteI empathise with you about Blogger as I'm a bit of a technophobe and I'm very wary of hitting any buttons etc. -hence my blogs rarely change once I have them 'working'
Thanks Joe the lead mountain is getting smaller. Hardly bought any figures last year. And none so far this year.
DeleteI did sort blogger out in the end and have put something in place to rectify the problem should it occur again.
Are you *sure* that there are hidden tunnel entrances on these markers? They just look like regular dirt to me :-) ...
ReplyDeleteThanks C6. I will of course need t get a specialist involved to make sure. But the intention of a tunnel entrance is there.
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