Exotic Location Sets

[Chris Abbey]

Saturday at Hammerhead was the first chance that we had to put together an Exotic Location set with 4 x Rick's Place sets to have Rick's Place, Museum, Riad & Souk all on the table at the same time.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Saturday at Hammerhead was the first chance that we had to put together an Exotic Location set with 4 x Rick's Place sets to have Rick's Place, Museum, Riad & Souk all on the table at the same time.

That looks really great, Chris.   

What sort of paint did you use for the walls? Did you undercoat first?

[Dr Mathias]

My sets showed up yesterday, midwest USA. Very cool.

[Chris Abbey]

I am looking forward to seeing some photos of sets our backers have put together!

I painted my Locations using household emulsion.
The outside walls were painted with PVA glue and sprinkled with fine sand. When dry I used household white emulsion with a little brick red stirred in to base coat followed by a heavy drybrush of white emulsion.
I did not prime.
It is important to get all the painting done before gluing the floor coverings in place.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

I am looking forward to seeing some photos of sets our backers have put together!

Will do!

Thanks for the tips on painting, that's very useful Chris, cheers.   

[Wolf Girl]

Awesome!!! 

Saturday at Hammerhead was the first chance that we had to put together an Exotic Location set with 4 x Rick's Place sets to have Rick's Place, Museum, Riad & Souk all on the table at the same time.

WOW!!! 

[Big Martin Back]

I've got as far as sticking together 2 of the basic sets and the extra bits for the Riad and Museum. It's been a bit of a busy week for other things.
Hopefully I can get the other bits assembled and start painting next week. Will post some photos once I've got somewhere.

[Dr Mathias]

I've got as far as sticking together 2 of the basic sets and the extra bits for the Riad and Museum. It's been a bit of a busy week for other things.
Hopefully I can get the other bits assembled and start painting next week. Will post some photos once I've got somewhere.

I started mine today, it's going to take some serious time to get it all built!

[Chris Abbey]

It will.... but it will be worth it. These sets are very versatile and can be re-arranged in lots of different ways.

I would not do it all it once, we did not when we were designing it. We have had loads of great games using a single building as the center piece of games table, so if you start with Ricks Place Location and then set dressings, you can be playing a game on it after a weekends model making.

[Dr Mathias]

Chipping away on my sets

Chris, do you happen to have any close-up shots of a wall with a large lattice window? It looks like they are supposed to have a thin sill on each side. The lattices are a bit smaller than the window though, and I am wondering if there is something meant to keep them in position and fill the slight gap?

[Chris Abbey]

Yes, very slightly smaller to allow for thickness of textured paint and pva glue to glue them into position. 2mm square window sill glued to either side of wall.

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[Dr Mathias]

Instead of being a good little LAFer and working on LPL entries, I finished painting the Exotic Location terra blocks for Rick's Place, Museum, Souk, and Riad. Set dressings are in progress...

[Chris Abbey]

That is coming along very nicely.
I do like your doors, I might need to go back over mine and give them the two tone treatment.
Are they just painted with Acrylic?

Any one else started building their exotic locations?

[Dr Mathias]

That is coming along very nicely.
I do like your doors, I might need to go back over mine and give them the two tone treatment.
Are they just painted with Acrylic?

Thanks, some of the innner doors are one tone- although most are painted like the ones shown above. The doors were primed with a reddish auto spray primer, then painted with acrylic. For the brass look I do a layer of dull yellow green, followed by gold. The texture on outer walls is done using the 'Phipps Method' (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=15132.0). His process takes a while but is worth it, and matches the rest of my North Africa terrain.

It will be nice to have some gameable interiors.