Colonial house for Singapore

[TacticalPainter]

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.

[flatpack]

That looks great.
All the little touches like the palm trees, and plant pots.
It has all the flavour for Singapore.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

That is amazing.

I am going to borrow some of those ideas for Vietnam.

[Etranger]

Very nice. it would work for Indochina just as it is too.

[has.been]

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.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

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/2019/10/more-buildings-for-vietnam.html
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2019/04/at-salute-i-bought-number-of-mdf-and.html

[joekano]

That looks amazing! I love a good conversion.

If you guys are looking for more South Asian buildings, 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.

[has.been]

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.

[flatpack]

Ultra
Your buildings are just great.
I love the dangling air con unit on the damaged building. That is a lovely touch.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

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.

[has.been]

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.

[TacticalPainter]

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.

[Patrice]

Superb and very inspiring work, thanks for sharing. 

I have bought this same house but I still haven't begun to work on it...

[Ultravanillasmurf]

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 ^__^

[has.been]

If you want similar in 28mm, try Solido.
Sometimes e-bay has them cheaper than brand new.