Back again ! with Lugana Studio

Dear all, after many years of activity pause I now revived my interests with respect to the hobby!

I restarted with my interest on terrain making and wanted to share my activity with some friends and possibly with other hobbysts in my and other countries. To this end i created Lugana Studio with a facebook page and  an ETSY shop.

here are some pictures of my recent works on Minas Tirith walls. I plan to create specific blogs with the details of my work and to collect reactions and ideas.

thanks for the interest and cheers

Daniele

Terrain put pourri !

Here is some terrain complements I prepared some time ago after Fede The Young gifted it to me... they are basically Italeri sets of road signals, walls and anti tank defences... they make a nice addition to our tables....

Smoke markers

I made an attempt of constructing simple smoke markers for BA. I made two types of smoke: Black for destroyed vehicles and white for smoke screens.

To construct them I used some iron boater (once) used to clean dishes that you may find in some supermarket.

Once I modeled into the desired shape I glued with the hot glue the boater to an iron rove and painted with spry acrylic.

Terrain, terrain ! Part IV: road signals

I continue to build new terrain items and accessories to enrich our wargaming tables.
Now, thanks to our friend Fede Junior, I put my hands on an almost complete Tamiya 1/48 road signals box. I immediately started assembling and painting them and here you see the outcome!

In the background the low walls from Italeri









Two series of terrain: one with normal terrain and the other with road terrain...

Here you see also the street lamps and the palissade.

ready to be put on the tables!

Terrain, terrain! Part III : Russian/Finnish house For Winter War

Waiting the of end Winter War Kickstarter  (pledge here !!) I started building some houses and terrain to be used for russian and finnish terrain.

The design is broadly inspired by the 4ground building that appears in the kickstarter (I loved the pale blue windows idea)
and also in this case is build with forex. On top of that I used 1mm balsa wood for the timber cover...I am not fully happy of that. i should carve more deeply the balsa to have the effect of separate wood boards.

Terrain Terrain ! Part II: a 3-storey building !

More and More difficult ! After reading the inspiring post from Bob Emmerson on wwpd bolt action forum I started a new project to build some north-European town buildings. I started with this three storey building and I am quite happy about the final result... The process can be quite easily standardized an some other similar building can be built using the same system.

The building is enriched by some additional items like the street name plate, the building number and a couple of WWII posters i found on the internet and printed. Rue du Poulet is in honor of our friend Pollo (=chicken=poulet) who heroically keeps using german !

Terrain, Terrain ! Part I: an European 2 storey building

Bolt action (which we enjoy a lot) forced me to work hard creating terrain suitable for 28mm figures. I re-adapted my basement and created a large workbench. Then I started (re)-collecting cardboard, polystyrene, mdf, flock, balsa wood etc.

One of the first project I completed has been building a 2 storey European building.  To construct it I use 5mm forex that is easily cuttable. I draw the pieces on the board and then glued some floor textures I created with word. I am pretty happy of the final result although I did not attached windows and doors to increase usability with BA.

Command Post

Here is my scratch built command post in 28mm. I took inspiration from the Baueda command post and built it by using DAS putty for the sandbags and balsa wood for the wooden parts.

The whole command post is internally large enough to accommodate 4-5 figures or a single large 50-60mm base for an MMG or a light AT gun.


In the following you find some details on the construction of the command post, and some comments on things i would not redo in the same way... I hope you like it  (as my germans do) !