Kesselforf buildings in the snow

[nevermore]

These were made for the battle of Kesseldorf by Tony from our club, he also created frozen river sections and a fully covered 6ft by 22 ft snow game table to battle on, these two pictures and others are uploaded "On the Workbench "  section.


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[Mason]

Gorgeous and so convincing that I can feel the cold from here.
 

[Fates Fickle Finger]

Very nice 
FFF

[Marine0846]

Makes me cold just looking at the photos.
Well done.

[pocoloco]

Very nice and cool (pardon the lame pun) looking table. Not sure though if the snow would have stayed on such steep roofs though. At least where the chimneys are... but that just a trivial thing that a Finn from "frozen" North would perhaps point out.

[Verderer]

Can I ask how the snowy bits were done? Perhaps baking powder + glue but what about the 'body' underneath? Looks nicely uneven at the edges from what I can tell.

[Christian]

Convincing! That's the word for it. Good job! 

[nevermore]

Can I ask how the snowy bits were done? Perhaps baking powder + glue but what about the 'body' underneath? Looks nicely uneven at the edges from what I can tell.

from Tony

Creating a Village in heavy snow.

I wanted the villages to be dark monochrome and covered with a heavy fall of snow.

The village was built on a 12” x 12” hardboard base.

The buildings were made using Kellogs cereal box card which I like the best. Each building was first drawn out on the drawing board and all the windows, doors and fixing lugs were drawn on. The buildings was then cut out and glued together. All the walls were backed with a second layer of the same card and fixed with pva glue but solid without any openings. Reinforcing ribs of the same card was then glued within the building to add additional bracing to the walls.
Additional porches, window cills, arches, fences, walls etc to add interest were added all still made from card.
The walls were then painted with diluted PVA and covered with grit and allowed to dry. I use birdcage grit but fine railway ballast would be fine. This was then painted, in my case, dark grey and dry brushed light grey to give the effect I wanted. The windows and doors were all printed off the Internet, mostly from manufacturers catalogues, sized on the computer, cut out and glued in.
To create the snow effect all the roofs, window cills, bottom of door openings and any projections including the streets were painted with a mix of interior polyfiller and pva glue. This was painted white and a layer of Woodland Scenics soft flaked snow applied.

Job done.

[Verderer]

Great, thanks nevermore. Interior polyfiller seems to be your generic type DIY filler? Have to look up something similar that's available locally.