This Part 31 of a series I have been running during October in support of the #Terraintober initiative. Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun clutter in 15mm. So no master classes here, just quantity to fill that table with things to enhance immersion, that is what immersion markers are for.

As stated before nothing I will be doing is particularly original or difficult to do and I hope it will have some use and give some kind of inspiration to do some immersion markers yourself. I will try to discuss how I did each piece but it is really mostly about splicing some coffee stirrers, eyeballing it and Rock and Roll a One modelling. Some items will be more specific to the theatre I am aiming for, a rural Sweden in 1943, but I think you will find most items useful as generic clutter anywhere with a few modifications.

Here is a link to the individual blogposts, the objective was a total spend of less than £30, we hit £25 (with perhaps a little bit of cheating), it could have been significantly less. I Hope some of them might inspire you to either have a go or seek out commercial alternatives. Clutter leads to immersion, immersion enhances the game!

1. Pigsty
2. Root cellar
3. Log piles
4. Pile of Planks
5. Dog Kennel
6. Cellar Entrance
7. Composter
8. Small Pond
9. Planter
10. Wheelbarrow
11. Well
12. Hunting Tower
13. Road Signs
14. Washing Line
15. Some Boxes
16. Outhouse
17. Swedish Hayrack
18. Haywagon
19. Play house and a See-saw
20. Scarecrow
21. Charcoal Burner
22. Bee Hives
23. Chicken Coop
24. Mile Stone
25. May Pole
26. Bushes
27. Charcoal Burner’s Hut
28. Big Stones
29. Tree Stumps
30. The Belfry

My top 5 have been the following ones

• The Charcoal Burner (and the hut too)

• The Chicken Coop

• The Pig Sty

• The Swedish Hayrack

• Dog Kennel

The next step of the project is to start getting some of the stuff on the table for the What-if 1943 invasion, plenty of Germans eager to jump the border. I have more than enough to do a varied amount of scenarios – for both sides.

These pieces of clutter will really add a lot of character to the stuff I already have.

So putting the new Clutter into some practice with a few quick shots, planned to do a game today but got an opportunity to do something better with the family so a few “staged” photos instead, but I hope you get the idea. Battle Mat from Geek Villain ( https://geekvillain.co.uk/ ).

Many thanks

/ Hope that was of some interest, I really enjoyed making this series. Now I do not want to see Coffee Stirrer for at least a week. If you do end up doing some of the clutter yourself please share your experience and pictures – I would really appreciate it. Or let me know which one is your favourite.

This Part 30 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. I have also added a section with links to all the other posts in the first one. Today will be the last entry as I plan to do an overview presentation of what has been done to date tomorrow.

I grew up in the Village of Sågmyra in Sweden and the picture below show the main building and the Belfry. I was baptized in that Church and I always liked the look of it, not as intimidating as other churches. The Belfry was built after WW2 but serves as an example of many similar ones that would have existed during the WW2 era.

They are very common in the region and if you Google “Klockstapel Dalarna”, you will find may varieties (the one burning is Swedish, but not from Dalarna, it burnt down 4 years ago).

Anyway, here is my version (not a copy but like more “heavily inspired by”).

I think you get the gist from the pictures, I am using techniques already shown in previous episodes – base material is nylon floor tiles, then clad with coffee stirrers, cut lengthwise. Some cardboard for the shutters. I made it to fit the base size I used for the other items made as part of the project.

So final spend rounded up at £25.

See you for tomorrow’s finale..

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This Part 29 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today and tomorrow (when we make some tree stumps) we are doing yet again some really easy scatter.

This clutter simply adds a little bit of interest to a flat area and will hardly cause any visibility issue, some tree stumps. I based these in threes and in retrospect very orderly and dense – you might consider during yours as individuals or less ordered on a, perhaps, bigger base.

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do some tree stumps…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 28 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today and tomorrow (when we make some tree stumps) we are doing yet again some really easy scatter.

Today some freestanding stones, basically made these from blue foam, based them and painted them up.

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do some tree stumps…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 27 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. In a previous blog post in thsi series (Re-Clutter your Life (#Terraintober Immersion marker Project) Part 21 – Charcoal Burner) we did a Charcoal Burner, The Charcoal burners would work in shifts and monitor the charcoal burner from a hut, often with a window toward the burner so they could observe it during the night. They came in many different shapes but I found this one inspiration and decided to use this one as a basis for my hut (form somewhere in Sweden, but not sure where exactly). Search on Google using the word “Kolarkoja” and you will find a lot of different huts.

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 26 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today we are making some bushes, not the linear terrain kind of bushes but some bog standard ones to clutter your battle field and making it look at little less flat and interesting.

Ok here we go.

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 25 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today we are talking May Poles, or Midsummer Poles, as we call them in Sweden. The video below shows how they were installed.

Sorry for anyone who got an early version of Part 25 yesterday, a new version will be out on Friday (I finished a few items this weekend and this week is busy so most of it is already scheduled for issue, but I messed up Part 29, instead of scheduling I published – just life!).

Anyway some good memories of going to the local celebrations at Midsummer.

Lets make one (this one being a large one in 15mm and a small one on 28mm, sizes of poles just like in real life varies)

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 24 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.

MIlestones have been used throughout history and initially, at least in Sweden for the 17th century, were used to enable the administration to pay its staff for various cost relating to travel. Many materials were used including wood, stone and from the 19th century in iron. The milestones were phased out in the 1890ies but remain in many places today.

So possibly the easiest piece so far, I just took a piece of blue foam, cut a shape and glued it (do not use superglue) on a small base and there you go,

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest

This Part 23 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.

Today I have been running around like a headless, chicken so let us get straight into it, you will mainly need coffee stirrers cut lengthwise separating each in three lengths.

Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers. Ok, the chicken and the fabric would have cost some cash if I did not have it at home so it is debatable and in that case the budget is blown, however I am leeting myself off the hook this this time.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest