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Title: Mexican town
Post by: 6mmfan on July 26, 2007, 05:10:55 AM: Hi all

This is my first attempt the upload pictures so here goes!

This is a village I scratchbuilt last year for our LOTOW games. The buildings are made from foamboard and card board and covered with a bathroom sealant (from a tube). The doors and the roof on the church is plasticard as is the cobbled roads.

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/town1.jpg)

The town entrance named after a old hip hop song from the 80s (i think)

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/town2.jpg)

An overall photo of the town

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/town3.jpg)

A slightly blurry photo of the front of my church

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/town4.jpg)

The town from a different side

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/town5.jpg)

Serving girls outside the cantina

Cheers
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Grimm on July 26, 2007, 05:38:35 AM: :o :o COOOL :love: :love: pease tell us mor abaut the making of :mrgreen:
Title: Mexican town
Post by: fatgoblin on July 26, 2007, 05:44:48 AM: very nice! and very useful too! lots of fun games in the future I wager
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Malamute on July 26, 2007, 08:25:50 AM: Excellent - I really like the church. :love: I was palnning making one myself. I might have to steal your ideas :)
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Zoogla on July 26, 2007, 08:28:26 AM: *argh* How cool is THAT? :o
Yeah, please tell us more about the 'making of' ;-)

Z.
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Post by: dominic on July 26, 2007, 10:20:32 AM: Beautiful! I love the church and the Cantina!
Tell me how to make them!! :love:
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Post by: Boggler on July 26, 2007, 11:23:07 AM: Excellent!

I like the paved roadways and the town gateway...very nice.
Title: Mexican town
Post by: 6mmfan on July 26, 2007, 11:47:03 AM: Thanks for the comments :)

Heres some simple instructions on how I made the buildings.

Firstly I cut the foamboard up, cut out the doors and windows and then I add some pieces of plasticard for the patches of exposed brick and the doors.
Next I glue it all together and then cover any of the bad joins with acrylic sealant and use the foamboard offcuts to reinforce the joins on the inside of the building.
Then I add the sills around the windows and doors which are made from cardboard.
Then the wooden shutters are made from balsa wood and I tried to make it look like they are weather beaten.
The iron strips on the door are made from cardboard and I added some rivets made out of green stuff. The roofs are removable but I havent needed that for any of our games.

Then I cover everything (except the shutters) with acrylic sealant and them I use my finger to texture it by dabbing it. I had to repeat the this a few times depending on how bad the joins were :) Next I painted them with some cheap poster paints

The church has a removable roof (made from plasticard) and the front comes off as well (you can see the join on the front of the building in the background of the first photo). This was to make it easier to transport and I'm planning to use a roof with a dome to make it look like a mosque. The cross on the front is also attached to roof so it comes with the roof.
The rest was the same as the smaller buildings but it was hard to make the roof fit properly because the building wasnt very square.

Anymore questions let me know

Cheers
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Malamute on July 26, 2007, 12:53:54 PM: Hi 6mmfan - Thanks for the info. The pantiled roof on the church you said is plasticard. Is it available to buy like that, presumably in strips? I have never seen specific sets of pantiles as nice as that. Where did you buy it?
Title: Mexican town
Post by: majorsmith on July 26, 2007, 01:28:52 PM: Quote
The town entrance named after a old hip hop song from the 80s (i think)

i left my wallet in el segundo, by a tribe called quest

nice town, very nice!
Title: Mexican town
Post by: LeadAsbestos on July 26, 2007, 02:12:59 PM: Just beautiful! I can't wait to steal those ideas! :roll:
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Skrapwelder on July 26, 2007, 02:35:28 PM: Suntuosa!

Beautiful work. Are the tiles the vacu-formed kind you get for model railroads?
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Post by: Neldoreth on July 26, 2007, 02:52:43 PM: This is very inspiring for many reasons. The buildings are great, and the detailing is awesome. But what strikes me even more is that this table looks fantastic as terrain placed on a tablecloth. You managed to make it look great without having to take time and money to build a textured board to put it all on.

This really sways my views in my current debate: should I abandon my tablecloth scheme for textured boards? I think this definitely shows me that with a little extra effort (the roads and the wall there) one can make a great gaming table without having to worry about building and storing a large textured board!

Thanks for the inspiration!
n.
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Malamute on July 26, 2007, 03:37:57 PM: Neldoreth - We play Western games on a beige bedsheet that has been stained with coffee and tea and liberally sprayed with sand and light earth coloured paints.
With some lichen thrown on and hill tiles placed under the sheet to give it some contours it looks very convincing. :)
Title: Mexican town
Post by: 6mmfan on July 26, 2007, 09:07:49 PM: Malamute and Skrapwelder

The tiles are from Plastruct and are called "Spanish tiles" in G Scale (1:24).
http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineProductDetail.lasso?-op='eq'&CCode=PS-116
IIRC I gave them a very light sand so they didnt look too smooth and I used thick paint to try and add some texture. I glued them to some cardboard to make them stronger and then glued a strip of cardboard along the top followed by a single strip on tiles over that.

Neldoreth

I was also thinking about making textured boards, but since I play at a club, its not practical to carry them around. But in saying that, the games are only played on 4x4 or 2x4 table so it wouldnt be too much hassle. BTW the mat was from Hotz mats who I had an interesting experience with :?

Cheers
Kieran
Title: Mexican town
Post by: simwork on August 02, 2007, 05:00:09 PM: These are really impressive.
Question: did you draw up plans first? Anything detailed that we could steal?
Title: Mexican town
Post by: 6mmfan on August 04, 2007, 03:09:29 AM: Afraid not. I just used a figure as a reference for the size and height of the buildings. I can measure them if you like?
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Post by: simwork on August 05, 2007, 03:54:30 AM: No problem, as I think I can eyeball them from the photos. Again, very nice work.
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Post by: Hitman on August 09, 2007, 03:05:01 AM: Great job!! The town just looks like it is itchin' fer a gunfight!!

By the way, where did you get the cactus models?
Title: Mexican town
Post by: postal on April 16, 2008, 03:44:29 AM: looks perfect for a magnificent seven game.
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Darkoath on April 17, 2008, 02:48:34 AM: Sweet town! You did a fantastic job! Reminds me of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! :)
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Post by: flytime on April 17, 2008, 07:01:12 PM: wow thats absolutly amazing :o !
Title: Mexican town
Post by: uti long smile on April 17, 2008, 07:56:23 PM: wow! Great work
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Roger Guy on April 18, 2008, 09:27:18 AM: Very & very cool. Such works, compel to sit down for a table and do new terrains.
Best regards,
R.G.
Title: Mexican town
Post by: Skunkape on April 18, 2008, 05:28:08 PM: Great looking town!

I need to do more work with foamcore than I'm currently doing!
Title: Re: Mexican town
Post by: HerbyF on February 17, 2009, 06:39:19 AM: I see you have some IMEX cacti. I used the little ones on my figure bases.
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Post by: Hitman on February 17, 2009, 09:51:33 PM: Great looking table set-up. Makes me want to jump right in and play. Are your buildings all scratch-built or are they pre-made from a company? Very inspiring...perfect for a "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" scenario. I almost started looking for them. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.