Mexican town

[6mmfan]

Hi all

This is my first attempt the upload pictures so here goes!

This is a village I scratchbuilt last year for our LOTOW games. The buildings are made from foamboard and card board and covered with a bathroom sealant (from a tube). The doors and the roof on the church is plasticard as is the cobbled roads.



The town entrance named after a old hip hop song from the 80s (i think)



An overall photo of the town



A slightly blurry photo of the front of my church



The town from a different side



Serving girls outside the cantina

Cheers

[Grimm]

  COOOL  :love:  :love:  pease tell us mor abaut the making of  :mrgreen:

[fatgoblin]

very nice!  and very useful too!  lots of fun games in the future I wager

[Malamute]

Excellent - I really like the church.  :love: I was palnning making one myself. I might have to steal your ideas

[Zoogla]

*argh* How cool is THAT?  
Yeah, please tell us more about the 'making of' ;-)

Z.

[dominic]

Beautiful!  I love the church and the Cantina!
Tell me how to make them!! :love:

[Boggler]

Excellent!

I like the paved roadways and the town gateway...very nice.

[6mmfan]

Thanks for the comments

Heres some simple instructions on how I made the buildings.

Firstly I cut the foamboard up, cut out the doors and windows and then I add some pieces of plasticard for the patches of exposed  brick and the doors.
Next I glue it all together and then cover any of the bad joins with acrylic sealant and use the foamboard offcuts to reinforce the joins on the inside of the building.
Then I add the sills around the windows and doors which are made from cardboard.
Then the wooden shutters are made from balsa wood and I tried to make it look like they are weather beaten.
The iron strips on the door are made from cardboard and I added some rivets made out of green stuff. The roofs are removable but I havent needed that for any of our games.

Then I cover everything (except the shutters) with acrylic sealant and them I use my finger to texture it by dabbing it. I had to repeat the this a few times depending on how bad the joins were   Next I painted them with some cheap poster paints


The church has a removable roof (made from plasticard) and the front comes off as well (you can see the join on the front of the building in the background of the first photo). This was to make it easier to transport and I'm planning to use a roof with a dome to make it look like a mosque. The cross on the front is also attached to roof so it comes with the roof.
The rest was the same as the smaller buildings but it was hard to make the roof fit properly because the building wasnt very square.


Anymore questions let me know


Cheers

[Malamute]

Hi 6mmfan - Thanks for the info. The pantiled roof on the church you said is plasticard. Is it available to buy like that, presumably in strips? I have never seen specific sets of pantiles as nice as that. Where did you buy it?

[majorsmith]

The town entrance named after a old hip hop song from the 80s (i think)

i left my wallet in el segundo, by a tribe called quest


nice town, very nice!

[LeadAsbestos]

Just beautiful! I can't wait to steal those ideas! :roll:

[Skrapwelder]

Suntuosa!

Beautiful work. Are the tiles the vacu-formed kind you get for model railroads?

[Neldoreth]

This is very inspiring for many reasons. The buildings are great, and the detailing is awesome. But what strikes me even more is that this table looks fantastic as terrain placed on a tablecloth. You managed to make it look great without having to take time and money to build a textured board to put it all on.

This really sways my views in my current debate: should I abandon my tablecloth scheme for textured boards? I think this definitely shows me that with a little extra effort (the roads and the wall there) one can make a great gaming table without having to worry about building and storing a large textured board!

Thanks for the inspiration!
n.

[Malamute]

Neldoreth - We play Western games on a beige bedsheet that has been stained with coffee and tea and liberally sprayed with sand and light earth coloured paints.
With some lichen  thrown on and hill tiles placed under the sheet to give it some contours it looks very convincing.  

[6mmfan]

Malamute and Skrapwelder

The tiles are from Plastruct and are called "Spanish tiles" in G Scale (1:24).
http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineProductDetail.lasso?-op='eq'&CCode=PS-116
IIRC I gave them a very light sand so they didnt look too smooth and I used thick paint to try and add some texture. I glued them to some cardboard to make them stronger and then glued a strip of cardboard along the top followed by a single strip on tiles over that.

Neldoreth

I was also thinking about making textured boards, but since I play at a club, its not practical to carry them around. But in saying that, the games are only played on 4x4 or 2x4 table so it wouldnt be too much hassle. BTW the mat was from Hotz mats who I had an interesting experience with

Cheers
Kieran