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Well a tutorial is what we would like to have hehe. Since this is the first house we ever made from scratch. But it should be mentioned that we have been building wargame veichles and the like for many moons, so we are not unfamiliar with scratchbuilding as a concept, or conversions for that matter. The benefits of being Space Orc players
However, we primarely used what we know have been the staple material for this kind of modeling for a long time, foamcore for the exterior and interior inner walls and foamcore cut in half for the outer stone work. Primarely 3mm foamcore, but would use 5mm where appropiate. We then covered them with a thin layer of moddeling paste to give some structure and rough finish, and also to represent the filling material. I think however, that we will try to cover the cut foamcore and other materials with a different medium than airbrushing them with thin black primer, and try to go for a thicker colour, perhaps vinyl colour, to get rid of some of the surface roughness. We are still working on that part, and are trying to achive better results with upcoming buildings.
On same parts of the stone work, on the wall attached to the GW house for instance, we used 3mm depron. Very nice material, super for making walls, cobblestone, pavements, walls, brickwork, or what ever surface you fancy.
The pillars or supports are made of cut styrodur (floor isolation, in this case it was some sort of yellow type).
Roof is made from foamcore with added strips of cut lengths of cardboard (we used all kinds, what ever we had at hand, but that was of the same thickness). Styrodur is, as Kalle sayes, magical. You can cut it to look about as anything in a old building.
The windows are made from cut cardboard, and then we covered the back with insect net (bought very cheaply in a conveniance store). All made in Wolfgang style.
We have tried to keep the houses as simple as possible, with very few details added, to save time and effort, but still yeild a pleasant and belivable gaming enviroment. We will add furniture and the like when we have time, but for now, its really enough if there are a few central items to represent a "living" area in the houses.
When we are done with this pirate boards, we will start on a new project, and this have pretty much been the trial and error testground for that. We learn from our misstakes as we go along. Also painting and other techniques have been developing a bit. The greatest lesson have been the discovery of materials and how they work, and what can be made out of it, considering our limited skill and experiece.
We have spent many hours looking at other peoples work, picking up little tips here and there, and have tried to apply that to our own stuff.
I would recomend the Workbench area, its fantastic, also the Swashbuckling section. Loads of inspiration here. Another tip is Chianty´s Wargames Blog, its my absolute favourite.
31 May 2008, 08:19:05 PM