ACW Naval Terrain Draft

 A start to the terrain for my upcoming Historicon games.  The fictional naval battle will take place in the "eastern bay portion of the Chesapeake Bay - it's near where I live.  Doing a fictional battle does give one a bit of "artistic license" and I think it will be fun to build the shorelines for areas that I often sail in.

 The test game is a bit crowded as it's on a 4 by 8' table.  The game will be run on a 6x10 space which is almost twice as big.

The land cut-outs of 1/8 thick white styrene.  I like using styrene plastic for sectional terrain bases and it doesn't warp and is both cheap and easy to work with.  A few years ago I bought two 8x4 sheets from a sign manufacturer and have only used about 30% of the material.

 I've also rebased all my ships using clear plastic bases - that makes matching the water effect simple.  I'll add ship names to the bases over the next few weeks.

 A look at Tilghman Point.  It has a shape like portrayed but there isn't really a fort there - there's that ol' artistic license again....

 More Unions ships on they bran new plastic bases.

Another shot of the fort.  Once the weather warms up a bit I'll take the sections outside to base paint and then scenic.