Syrda Beach Rescue Part 3 - 6mm Team Yankee* the terrain and LCUs

This article shows some of the terrain and components that were custom-made for the Syrda Beach rescue mission.

Dyrnah Beach: I made 4 feet of beach using items from Bunnings and Spotlight: sand/stone-coloured vinyl tile cut into four 12x4" sections for the beach, thin transparent plastic 'tablecloth' sheet, painted varying shades of blue acrylic house paint underneath for the water, and Selleys to help join and blend the two components and form waves.

US Marine Landing Craft Utility (LCUs): My gaming mate did a fantastic job of hand-crafting these LCUs for the Marines to land their non-amphibious armoured vehicles (the M60s, LAVs and HMMVWs). After careful research, he made these by hand out of card and hand-painted them. They feature individual crew members and moving ramps: he really put in the effort on these models.

Dyrnah city and the Clinique Chirurgie Dyrnah hospital: Dyrnah city is composed of printed cardstock high-rise buildings, shopping malls and paved roads from Just Paper Battles on Wargame Vault, and my own middle eastern/north african village buildings and palm trees made from Weetbix boxes, vinyl tiles, Selleys, pipe cleaners and various house paints. The hospital sign didn't turn out so well, but it is magnetised, held up by another magnet inside the building so the building sign can be changed for different scenarios.

Dyrnah city at the height of the battle.

Magnetic hospital sign.

Syrdan State TV broadcast tower: The TV broadcast tower was the US Marines' secondary objective for the scenario: if they destroy it they can temporarily block Syrdan government propaganda and temporarily prevent the Syrdans broadcasting any interview that might be filmed between Syrdan officials or the President and a captured US Marine Forward Observer being treated at the local hospital.

The broadcast tower was made from toothpicks, with card struts, held together with Selleys and card brackets on a base of balsa wood and vinyl tile, with a paper terrain service shed.

The service hut is actually a rooftop component of a Just Paper Battles high-rise printed terrain set. The miniatures are all GHQ.