Stalingrad Project - Ongoing...

This is a post about a project that I started back in the Fall of 2006.  I worked on it off and on until about January 2008.  I've dabbled in it a bit off and on since, but am getting the bug to get back to it again.  It is currently a 4'x6' area with a 2'x4' section being the new part I'm working on.  Ultimately, the entire board will be 8'x16'.

It is modeled off of the Red Barricades factory area of Stalingrad and I used the map from the old Advanced Squad Leader module Red Barricades.  I blew up a digital copy, printed them out and taped them together into 2'x2' sections.  Most everything, except for trees and the railroad tracks (N scale BTW), was built from scratch.

Here are a few key photos of the project.  The rest of the photos can be found here:  StalingradProject

The maps:

The base foam.  I picked 2" thick because I was originally going to dig cellars into it, but gave up on that idea...  :)

Then I started transferring the paper map to the foam which was mounted to hardboard:

Then I started laying out the roads and the rail lines.  There are some shellholes in this pic too:

This is a long view with some of the houses placed to get an idea of how it would look:

In this pic, I've glued the houses down, and started laying down the base material (dried clay soil from my backyard...)  Ballasted the tracks too:

Some shots of buildings:

A couple shots of the factory buildings on this part of the board:

This is a long shot of the original 4'x6' section I have "finished"...  I still haven't added rubble or details to any of it yet...  :(