BUILDING STAND-ALONE GARDENS AND ALLOTMENTS OPERATION MAKE-A-GARDEN

It’s all well and good creating a fantastic-looking house for your wargame table – but if you want to stop it looking like it’s just been plonked on the table, you need a garden!

By Joe Bilton

Adding a garden or yard to a house makes a significant impact on the appearance of the piece on the table. It helps to ‘place’ the building and tells a story about the location. It also provides visual interest and tactical options. It can be tempting to attach the house to a larger board and build a permanent garden around it. While that does produce a very realistic terrain piece where the building and the garden are joined together perfectly, the downside is it’s more difficult to store a building-base combination. The other issue with this approach is that it reduces the flexibility of your terrain collection, as you lose the ability to use the building in a different setting. One compromise is to create a bespoke garden board for a specific…

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