Borneo Trading Post

[marianas_gamer]

I have posted some photos before of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Kampala Ltd trading posts for my Borneo game before but I just bought some store interior casting from "savingsthrow" on eBay so I can show you the interior as well.  here are the new shelves and the counter


Here is the trading post coming in from the surf.


Here is Factor Van de Veld in the trading post - Nope no guns or opium to be seen here


Stir in some Chinese pirates, Dayak headhunters, KNIL troopers, Malay pirates, the nefarious North Borneo Company, and renegade Filippino troops and things may get interesting.  Cheers, I'm off for a Pims cup!!

(I'm always looking for gamers on Guam)

[Argonor]

Nice little operation   

What did you use for the roof??

[Regulator]

How you did those palms?

[Chairface]

Very very cool!

[marianas_gamer]

The trading post's roof is made of Non-skid rubberized plastic shelf lining that you can get in dollar stores. The brand I get is Japanese and I can't read the label so I can't help you more than that. It comes in a particularly vile green, So I repaint it in a green I like, ink it brown, and dry brush it yellow. The final look is very much like braided coconut leaf thatch a few weeks after is laid down.  The front palm is a plastic one that I got off ebay. I usually paint most of the vegetation that I put on the gaming table. The trunk is painted a reddish brown and heavily dry brushed in grey, the leaves in a dark green and dry brushed with yellow. The palm in the rear is one of the great creations from the incomparable Grimm.  The bananas in back of the trading post are scratch built from paper, masking tape, and wire.
LB

[Rhoderic]

Heh... now that you say it, I recognize that non-skid stuff as being exactly that. I have some of it too (same vile green colour, I suspect) and, being a consummate wargames modeller like everyone else on this forum, I naturally considered using it for some kind of modelling project. Didn't find any good application for it, though. I'd been thinking more along the lines of modelling ferns and bracken with it, but it didn't look quite right.