In the Teeth of the Enemy: more unusual scrap terrain
Bad Squiddo Russian Women of WW2 28mm figures and their unusual defensive position
“In many places they advanced in the teeth of stiff opposition.”
As a scrap modeller and trash puppy hoarder of scrap plastic, interesting packaging and old toys for future use, I often look at everyday waste objects and wonder how they could be useful in gaming.
This latest terrain feature started life as Christmas cracker scrap or magazine freebie – a cheap set of comedy false teeth. What else could they become, if not landfill scrap?
Could they become dragons teeth to stop enemy tanks? A stone wall to protect troops?
Truly “In many places they advanced in the teeth of stiff opposition.”
Strips of masking tape cover these holes – the gap is useful for figure bases to fit underneath.
Another cheap and cheerful bit of wargaming terrain.
Don’t forget to recycle your Christmas cracker scrap into useful gaming stuff – see my previous Christmas cracker scrap posts here:
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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6 thoughts on “In the Teeth of the Enemy: more unusual scrap terrain”
Really I should have photographed my cheapest Pound Store figures with plastic tat terrain for that whole Facebook super cheap wargaming group scavenged terrain thing … plastic tat to plastic tat (but not into landfill). If I get more, they will become snow blocks …
Pound Store Plastic Warriors 
Love it 🙂
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Thanks! Who knows what useful cracker scrap and plastic tat will turn up this year?
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I’m inspired to look 🙂
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Hope they have a stiff upper lip in the face of the jaws of death. A post to get one’s teeth into, splendid upcycling Mark.
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Really I should have photographed my cheapest Pound Store figures with plastic tat terrain for that whole Facebook super cheap wargaming group scavenged terrain thing … plastic tat to plastic tat (but not into landfill). If I get more, they will become snow blocks …
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This is brilliant! Your creativity is inspiring. In a million years, I don’t think I would have seen the terrain potential there.
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