Greetings 6's!

I know this happened over a year ago, but I didn't want withhold it from you!

So some 2 years ago I made a Waterloo table to be played witn the CnC Napoleonics system, much like I did that same year for the battle of Dresden - See my postings elsewhere.

I decided to use different board materials then I used for Dresden: Poster boards! And I can only advice you not to do this, as the boards will warp!

So let's see how it was done!

I used a map of the battle with contours to design my hex-board

Then I used this map to make contours with the poster boards.

Then I added my pushpins to create the hex grid for CnC Napoleonics

Add filler to smooth the contours and make sure that structures fit

Paint it some earth brown

Tape in the roads

Create different shades of green, so we can use to identify what is up and down hill!
Dark-green for the clear areas, Woods even darker, sandpit, some light brown gravel for towns and paint in a stream.

Next level medium-green and some light-green tops...

Remove the tape

Fill the roads. I noted the low areas around Hougoumont were nto clear enough so gave that some extra dark accent.

Add buldings and trees

And test the troop deployment!

Check the Gallery area for images of the Convention (Recon 2016) and actual game play!

Rene

WOW

very inspiring. i have allways wondered, how to get the roads right, buy them or what, but you solved that problem fr pretty good:)

whats the meassurements on this battlefield?

Approximately 5000m (3miles) EW by 3000m (2miles) NS.

This makes every hex some 200-250 yards accross.

i meant in cm, how big the board is:). 

100 x 60 inches, so approximately 250 x 150 cm

thanks mate:)