For a period of time, I have been toying with the idea of wargaming bush wars, in Rhodesia and South Africa.
I looked into 28mm and 20mm.
I opted for 20mm, convincing myself I could use die cast vehicle’s that were readily available.
I could use HO scale buildings.
I could buy and use 1/72 scale plastic aircraft models.
I was then inspired by Ash’s thread on this site (wow, there is some great work on that).
So, where to begin ?
Here’s my first play at making shantytown shacks.
I bought mdf buildings off the Internet.
Not bad at £5 for 3 off, so I bought a couple of sets.
I wasn’t happy with the roofs, so got hold of some corrugated plastic sheeting.
After posting images of the final shacks on FB, a great comment came back, that tyres and rocks were used to hold down the corrugated sheets, so they were duly added.
First try at a shack.
First shack with walled painted.
After this first shack, I started making the roofs a little more untidy.
Half way there with the group of 6.
Individual shacks coming along.
So, at this stage I thought I was finished, before the comment about adding the rocks and tyres on the roofs.
Plastic tyres incoming.
Finally tries and rocks added to the rooftops.
One finished shanty town, for now.