Spanish village setup - help needed!

[traveller]

I am collecting buildings in order to build a Spanish village suitable for Peninsular/Carlist/SCW scenarios. As my resin hoard is piling up I start to plan for the setup and face a problem .... Which one of the following options would YOU recommend:

1. Put a texture base under each bulding and do the village setup on a felt or maybe painted, textured wallpaper. Very flexible but less realistic.

2. Build a terrain board for the setup and leave untextured areas where to place the buildings. Looks better but is less flexible.

Maybe there is a third option?

Any advice much appreciated!

[Sinewgrab]

Maybe a mix? What I did for my Fallout board, was to base every building on a CD, and then left slight depressions on the board where the CDs were to be placed. I spray textured the boards to begin with, and taping CDs in place and then removing them is how I did that. Maybe it would work for this application as well, if you were to decide on a certain base size that all the buildings are on, and then you allowed some flexibility on where they go.

You could even put small buildings into place by making the base they are on match in a generic manner to the rest of the board, so that it could go in the north corner, or the south. Am I making sense?

My Fallout thread is HERE. The information is in the first four pages or so.

[former user]

I do not understand why the village plan needs to be permanent

could You please elaborate?

[traveller]

Thanks for your comments!

Sinewgrab,
I like your idea. The problem is only the varying size of the buildings and the fact that I also have walls that should connect some buildings. If I could come even close to the fantastic result you did with your fallout board I would be ecstatic..

former user,
It should preferably not be static. The first alterantive is a non-stativc solution and the second a more permanent setup.

Maybe alternative 1 with a very lightly textured board could be a good solution.

[former user]

OK

here are my thoughts, because I had a similar problem:
Houses without bases, ending with the wall
separate bases, with ot without sidewalk, garden, courtyard etc
seperate street/underground/board

I f You need a fixed setup, You make the inbetween base layer, or make a new one which is easier than a whole building

how about that?

[traveller]

Thanks former user,

2 questions
-please explain "ending with the wall"
-why have separate bases not connected to the houses?

[former user]

the house model ends where the house wall is, and not beyond with a base

the base is a courtyard or sidewalk board and detachable to allow for switching it with a different layout and combination of houses