38. Basic Tilean HousesThese are 'film set' houses for the backgrounds of my campaign photos. I churn them out by necessity, and so they are very basic. Sometimes they feature in the games also, but a lot of the time they only have one or two functioning sides (thus 'film set' in style) as that is all I need in a photograph.
A lot of these houses were made from very cheap wooden boxes. Sometimes the box starts out like a house, like this ...
But strip off the silly fairy-toy stuff and stick some old GW windows on and paint you get a silly wargames' house ...
Sometimes you can use several boxes ...
Reposition, saw and fiddle about a bit ...
Slap some plasticard roofs on, paint, and get something more elaborate than a box shape ...
Sometimes you can get lucky and find a pottery building, in this case a candle holder, that makes for a great building once painted up ...
Sometimes you find a ceramic candle holder tower that with a bit of work also makes for a nice model ...
Here you can see the completed tower between two other towers - a Citadel one and a pre-made resin one ...
If you find a kit-form building at a good price, then just paint it to fit in with the others ...
When you want something part tower, part building, get the wooden boxes out again and add plasticard roofs ...
You can make really basic houses with cardboard boxes and plasticard railway model stone walls stuck on ...
Here are three more - a larger plasticard one, another multibox one, and a very basic box-style one ...
Sometimes I want something real fancy. In this case I took a single malt whisky box and made it into a palazzo front ...
And here is the project I just finished today, which prompted me to make this post. I wanted a street, and thought why not just make the whole street side in one go. So I stuck boxes together ...
Stuck roofs on and bits of cardboard and plasticard stone here and there ...
Undercoated ...
Then using Gesso (lots of the above where gessoed as it allows you to fill gaps and add a texture) and painting and washing on some dirt ...
And to get two film sets for the price of one, make the back of you set count as well ...
Then slap them on the table together ...
Here are some story pics featuring some of these buildings ...