Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Beginnings of a Terrain Set

There are two sorts of terrain elements shown here along with some models for scale:


On the right some ice floe patches (with an Empire of the Blazing Sun frigate picking its way through) and on the left some basic islands.



The other minis are a Blazing Sun Bomber and some other mini maker's flying Aeronef of a thing ("Industrial Gothic"[?] maybe...) I have a bunch of the minis but I'm clueless as to what the game was or was about.

The islands are just slabs of foam that were too small to become hills for Warhammer Fantasy. They got re-purposed to a different scale. They are about an inch tall and so represent islands that stand about 100 feet out of the sea.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Deception Island

This is a map of Deception Island. It is a volcanic Caldera located in the South Shetland Islands. The South Shetland Islands are North of the Antarctic peninsula and South of the Falklands. It is the only place in the world where a sea-going ship can steam into an active volcanic caldera. What if this interesting place were modeled for war gaming purposes?

The various rectangles (red, white, medium blue and also the pale inset area) represent 4x6 ft (48x72 inch) standard gaming tables if the island was modeled at a scale of 1:1200. Note that the whole map is 10x10 tables. Therefore, if the entire map was considered one 4x6 ft table, Deception Island could be modeled on that single table IF the island was modeled at a  scale of 1:12000 (that's twelve-thousand) instead of 1:1200.

The triangles mark various summit locations and the tiny red dot in the entrance channel marks a submerged  hazard to navigation. The white/royal blue scale bars are (top to bottom) 7200 feet and 2000 meters long.