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on the workbench Fields and Gardens

Time to improve terrain. Fields and gardens on an old piece of hardboard. Corrugated paper then textured and spray painted. Plants from scatter static grass on lines of PVA. Grass tuft in rows and green paint soaked sponge and pieces of clump foliage.  Fences a mix of plant ties and bamboo skewers for the hurdles and garden thyme stripped of leaves to be the brush in the brushwood fences.  a mixture of open field and fenced gardens  house at the cetre of a fenced gardens and crop fileds  Patchwork of fields - the irrigation ditch is scratch built from acrylic sheets  Vines in a ploughed field - vines scratch built from pipe cleaners  Patchwork of gardens the pigsty is bought from Hovels yonks ago  Brush wood fence some scattered static grass used for young crops  Ploughed field with orchard trees  A series of the fields to make a patchwork close to a village ploughed field with shredded sponge cabbages  A mix of lants made of clump folia...

Scenario and AAR Second Battle of San Salvo. San Salvo station 2-3 November 1943

Scenario 2 0430  Attacking the San Salvo Station 2 nd battalion Lancashire Fusilier made a crossing of the Trigno on the 24th October and established a bridgehead so that the Sappers could work unmolested mine clearance on the banks and on a bridge. On the 25th October they had attacked San Salvo railway station. Trying to advance against stiff mortar and machine gun fire several attacks had failed. https://www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk/gallerynew/WW2/2ndBn/2bnww2.html The attack across the Sangro was resumed after a few weeks by 36 th brigade. On the 2 nd of November the 11 th brigade began its attack. The 5th battalion The Buffs had the job of securing the right flank by seizing San Salvo Station and the 5 th battalion the East end of the Li Colli ridge overlooking the Sangro valley. This is the account from the War diary. “The attack started before dawn with B Coy (MAJOR W H FEWSON) as right forward Coy, D Coy (MAJOR D MILTON) left forward Coy followed by advance RHQ C ...