Author Topic: [WW2] French Village (work in progress) (Read 31339 times)

SgtPerry · « **on:** October 07, 2007, 04:17:31 PM »

I decided to build a french village for my WW2 games. I wanted to be able to set up streets like these ones

I looked first at products from existing manufacturers but I didn't find anything really interesting except the Carentan range from Grand Manner (but far too expensive as I want 6-8 buildings.

Finally, I began to build them from scratch in foam card. After 3 weeks of work , I assembled 10 buildings ( houses, barn, shops, garage).

I textured them yesterday with the Walktapus Magic Mixture ( water and ceramic tile glue ) and they look great.

Next step now, the painting!

Olivier

Agis · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2007, 04:20:06 PM »

Whoahh! What a project. :love:
Cool start!

Hopefully you have the stamina to finish it! :wink:

Prof.Witchheimer · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2007, 05:38:55 PM »

god

that's a lot of bildings...

Poliorketes · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2007, 05:45:42 PM »

Looks really promising!

Hammers · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2007, 09:29:55 PM »

Gotta love huge projects.

Plynkes · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2007, 10:11:00 PM »

I love them too. When other people do them.

Looks great. Can't wait to see the finished versions.

matakishi · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2007, 11:24:55 PM »

Now that's what I like to see :

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Looking forward to seeing them painted!

Boggler · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2007, 08:31:33 AM »

That looks great...just like the real thing

SgtPerry · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2007, 09:07:58 AM »

Many Thanks!

Now I have to do something great! I hope I would begin to paint them soon.

Olivier

Hammers · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2007, 09:53:17 AM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

I love them too. When other people do them.

Quite right.

Howard Whitehouse · « **Reply #10 on:** October 09, 2007, 03:44:35 AM »

I like the look of these a lot.

I'd like to make not only a WWII French village but also some Victorian British stuff, which is essentially similar in shape, although not in detailing.

What have you done for texturing the roofs and walls? It's fear of putting tiles and brickwork on 10-20 houses that keeps me from starting?

SgtPerry · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2007, 07:45:45 AM »

For the roof, I finally used Wills products, textured plastic cards that I bought from Antenocity's workshop.

For the walls, there's no stone or brick walls yet only rendering ones that are textured with a mix of water and ceramic tile glue.

Walktapus used it for his bricks buildings and it's very nice :

Olivier

PeteMurray · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2007, 02:37:55 PM »

Great work, Olivier! It really does have that French village look!

SgtPerry · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2007, 05:24:01 PM »

Here are the first buildings painted : a farmhouse and a barn.

Olivier

PeteMurray · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2007, 05:33:56 PM »

Very nice! Are the roofs tile in real life? And do all the barns have windows on the second storey?

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