Santa Claus to the Rescue

I've long wanted some wheeled pieces of scatter terrain to decorate my gaming table. The main trouble is, wheels in the proper scale are hard to come by. When I was at the Vasa Museum in March I contemplated buying some 25mm pewter cannon sold at the museum shop for such a purpose, then put the idea off. Later, when I received a plastic Warlord Marlburian WSS gun, I tried to make copies of the wheels, but the space between spokes of the copies was too narrow, even for my sharp needle files.

In the meantime I built some barricades and other scatter terrain which I posted here, and then, come pre-Christmas sales of decorations, my wife and I went to a local Interspar and she pointed out this lasercut Santa Claus train which was at half price and had no less than eighteen wheels per set, all well scaled for 28mm figures!

I promptly bought two sets for the total princely sum of about five Euros, so now I have all the wheels for a lot of hand and horse carts, even perhaps a Gulay-Gorod for my Cossacks.

You can see the first three items built of my newly found resources, a wheelbarrow, a small hand cart and one with a resin barrel attached, assembled, placed on 30mm round bases and coated with PVA.