Buildings for Pirate Wargaming

[Rhoderic]

Don't forget the possibility of making shanty towns as well. Something like a secret pirate port full of rickety terraces and catwalks. No templates needed, just start sticking strips of balsa together until you have a sufficiently wonky-looking town.

[Malamute]

Overlord - splendid looking table. :love:

[tsar1701]

This is exactly the table I hope to create one day ...

So, back to the workbench  

[Gluteus Maximus]

Hmmm, very nice but rather expensive.  

I get mine from Hobbycraft in the UK: http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/index.asp

4 fronds on each artificial fern costing £1.69.  Just over 40p a tree.  :mrgreen:      Just add garden twine and a suitable base.

Aha!

That's much better  

Thanks, Overlord.

[PeteMurray]

Don't forget the possibility of making shanty towns as well. Something like a secret pirate port full of rickety terraces and catwalks. No templates needed, just start sticking strips of balsa together until you have a sufficiently wonky-looking town.

I used craft sticks. I spent one night in front of the TV just splitting them with a box cutter.

I'd also recommend checking out some of the various paper building sets. I've printed them and then glued them to foamcore, and the only change I've made has been to recess the windows and doors to make them look nicer. My buddy has printed them to big label sheets and skipped the gluing step and it works just as well (probably better in the long run). If you base the foamcore buildings, they'll hold up just fine over time.

It is a really nice looking table, there.

[Argonor]

Fantastic stuff!!

Plastic ferns are a good idea for fronds.

Speaking of ferns, BUSCH makes scale plastic ferns that may come in handy for jungles/prehistoric settings....

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/bus/bus1203.htm

Hmmm, very nice but rather expensive.  

I get mine from Hobbycraft in the UK: http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/index.asp



4 fronds on each artificial fern costing £1.69.  Just over 40p a tree.  :mrgreen:      Just add garden twine and a suitable base.

Rather nice - would be great to have one of those stores around.

I got a whole bunch of cake deco palm trees from Pfeil & Holding (I think they're called) in the US. VERY inexpensive: 0.50 Dkr. per tree (£1 is about Dkr.10), including postage. And all I have to do is glue them onto a base with a glue gun and drybrush the trunk  :wink:

[Arteis]

This article I wrote several years ago was aimed at Peninsular War gaming ... but would be pretty applicable to pirates as well:

http://www.fusiliers.net/wargaming6.htm

Here's one of the pictures from that article:

[SgtPerry]

Impressive, both of them!

Olivier

[Gluteus Maximus]

Roly,

Beautiful village!

It would indeed be perfect for pirates    

[Arteis]

Here's another picture of the village, with a few new buildings I've added since (they've got temporary cardboard roofs in this pic, which were later replaced with pantile-textured plasticard like the earlier buildings).



More pics of the village are here:

http://www.fusiliers.net/wargaming37.htm[/img]

[twrchtrwyth]

[Malamute]

Great stuff.

[Lindegaard2007]

Hi Again!!

What about the roof tiles!! Do you guys make them yourself or buy them somewhere??

[PeteMurray]

Beautiful!  :love:

[Operator5]

I love it.  

Great little town there and perfect for a raid by scurvy dogs!