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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: TacticalPainter on October 26, 2020, 02:48:04 AM
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I'm playing a Chain of Command campaign set in Singapore in 20mm and need to represent a house belonging to a rubber plantation owner. I have one of the 20mm Sarissa colonial houses and I've done some work on that to make it suitable for the Far East. You can see how I did those modifications in a longer post here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2020/06/sarissa-20mm-colonial-house.html
For the campaign I wanted to add a base and so I've recycled a base I had made for a house in French village. For more tropical flavour I've added a couple of palm trees.
The car is die cast and from Oxford. I sprayed it with matt varnish and gave it a dry brush just to make it look less toy like.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/N7zOFe.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmN7zOFej)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/mMZ9Os.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnmMZ9Osj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/o4PKHd.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poo4PKHdj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/3tRUKI.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm3tRUKIj)
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That looks great.
All the little touches like the palm trees, and plant pots.
It has all the flavour for Singapore.
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That is amazing.
I am going to borrow some of those ideas for Vietnam.
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Very nice. it would work for Indochina just as it is too.
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Very nice. it would work for Indochina just as it is too.
My thoughts too, though I would want it in 28mm.
Also do for Viet-Nam.
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My thoughts too, though I would want it in 28mm.
Also do for Viet-Nam.
Sarissa do the building in 28mm.
I only have the single story version, but mine are not as nice as Tactical Painter's.
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/11/another-building-for-vietnam.html (http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/11/another-building-for-vietnam.html)
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/10/more-buildings-for-vietnam.html (http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/10/more-buildings-for-vietnam.html)
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/04/at-salute-i-bought-number-of-mdf-and.html (http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/04/at-salute-i-bought-number-of-mdf-and.html)
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That looks amazing! I love a good conversion.
If you guys are looking for more South Asian buildings, https://www.dragonfroggames.co.uk/ (https://www.dragonfroggames.co.uk/) sell MDF shops in both 20 and 28mm. They are nice kits, though the upper floors are not full height, so they come up shorter than other manufactures.
(https://i0.wp.com/www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MDF-Asian-Shop-Houses-8.png)
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Thanks Joekano. I wasn't thinking of streets, rather an isolated plantation house.
The buildings seem very nice, & I might have been tempted, but all the 28mm ones
are listed as, 'Out of stock'.
Thanks also Ultra. You do yourself a disservice, your building is well done.
I might even have a Sarissa one hiding in the MDF hill. Not as big as the
lead mountain, but still quite big.
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Ultra
Your buildings are just great.
I love the dangling air con unit on the damaged building. That is a lovely touch.
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Thanks.
@Tactical Painter, where did you get the car and how did you do the walls and fencing? I looked on your blog post and it only covered the building.
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The car is die cast and from Oxford. I sprayed it with matt varnish and gave it a dry brush just to make it look less toy like.
Oxford are a company who do ready made 1/76th vehicles.
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As has been said the car is from Oxford Die Cast (1/76 scale). I sprayed with Matt varnish and then gave a dry brush.
The walls are made from cork floor tiles available from hardware stores.
The fence is an eBay purchase from a Chinese supplier doing model railway scenery, lots of choices in styles and in OO scale which is 1/76 or 20mm.
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Superb and very inspiring work, thanks for sharing. :o :)
I have bought this same house but I still haven't begun to work on it...
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Oxford are a company who do ready made 1/76th vehicles.
Thanks.
At some point I had forgotten that this was 20mm and not 28mm ^__^
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If you want similar in 28mm, try Solido.
Sometimes e-bay has them cheaper than brand new.