I have completed the village for my Italy-themed table. The impression I wanted it to give was narrow streets, plastered walls, terracotta roofs, short lines of sight, and big enough that it could comfortably hold an infantry platoon plus support, and take effort to clear if players want to get involved in a street fight.
This had to be tempered by needing to use it in a game, with streets and buildings sized around the Flames of War base sizes, so the streets aren't as narrow and winding as they perhaps would be in reality, but I think it's captured the flavour I was after.
The village itself is 40cm by 40cm. Buildings were made from 2.2mm card, plastered to give texture, with roofs from HO-scale Spanish tile patterned styrene sheet. The roofs are removable to allow access into the buildings, and the buildings themselves are removable as well, located on pegs, so in theory I could put together another base in future and reuse the buildings in a different arrangement.
The smallest buildings hold two medium bases, with others holding three or four per floor.
Some alleyways are large enough for large bases, while others will only fit medium bases.
The current state of the table is this:
I have put some hills under the base cloth so the table is not quite so flat, but I still need to put together the bridge and the stream, and it probably needs some other bits and pieces just to break up the colour. Three weeks to go until the competition, and I'm back to work on Monday, so could be tight...
