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Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Bravo Six on July 15, 2007, 05:55:49 AM

Hey guys,

Thought I'd show off the final product of my terrain work over the past few weeks. I did some buildings in 20mm scale for my modern Afghanistan operations. I plan to use the same techniques to do so a whole town for Egypt for pulp use.

(http://www.mcgrathcanada.com/temp/AfghanVillage1.jpg)

(http://www.mcgrathcanada.com/temp/AfghanVillage2.jpg)

Let me know what you think.

-Todd

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Big Guy on July 15, 2007, 06:16:18 AM

Very nice and superb inspiration.  What are they made from?

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Bravo Six on July 15, 2007, 06:30:22 AM

The long and short of how I did it is this: it's foamboard covered with spackle/drywall mud and the bricks are just random splotches of Miliput carved into bricks while the Miliput is still soft. Once dry I spackle the whole building and leave the brickwork exposed. Once the spackling has dried, I wet my finger and smooth all the dried spackle out. I do the roof seperate using hardboard as the base and a sliced up styrofoam ball (gotten from Dollar Shops) as the dome. Then spackle and smooth that out.

Next time I'm going to try using HO and O scale brickwork styrene sheet and see if that speeds up production a bit as I find Miliput needs overnight to dry. Too long for my impatient self once I get on a "building-roll" and don't want to stop.

-Todd

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Big Guy on July 15, 2007, 08:41:53 AM

Thanks for the in-depth answer,  I've made similar if cruder out of some cheap polystyrene packaging dug out of the bins at work, but its nice to see the vast improvement a little bit of effort makes.

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Grimm on July 15, 2007, 11:24:35 AM

:o  :o  :o Cool  :o  :o  :o  

very nice work  :love:

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Lowtardog on July 15, 2007, 01:59:34 PM

Lovely stuff Bravo, I may appropriate of of the ideas for my 28mm village. Currently I have a lot of Monolith buildings but to add to it I was given some of the Pictor Studios blanks (from Sebastian Rogers - Salute BH Down game) I plan on converting some of these. :D

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Bravo Six on July 16, 2007, 02:55:55 AM

Thanks for the comments guys. I always wanted to do a 28mm pulp game set in some Indian or Egyptian town (populated of course by the lovely Eureka Indian Civilians) but the options for buildings seemed quite expensive and way out of my budget. Since virtually NO ONE seems to do Aghan buildings for 20mm I decided to have a go myself and was quite pleased with the result. Doubly pleased when I saw the long term advantage of being able to dublicate my efforts for a possible 28mm project as well.

-Todd

Title: Afghan Village Buildings
Post by: Zoogla on July 16, 2007, 08:04:22 AM

very very very nice. Reminds me that I have get back to build some scenery.


Z.