Modern city

[Harrymason]

I have begun working on terrain for my zombie games. A small swedish town is the goal, with a few apartment buildings, garages, a gas sation, bus stop and so on. So far I have made the ground floor of two apartment buildings, and a first floor on one of them. Nothing is painted yet though.

This is a -70s concrete block of a building. Th outer walls will be covered in fine sand to get the right texture. I have built another floor of this, it is pretty much identical.

Details of the bathroom.



Another house I stared today.



If anyone has an idea for some other suitable buildings, please tell me.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

looking good so far.

 When you ask for other suitable buildings - do you mean types of buildings or ways to make them?

 If type, then anything that can hold goodies for the survivors to loot or that can further the story behind your game.

 What I did was to take a look at my local shopping area to see what buildings are around: petrol station, town hall, hospital, police station, supermarket, take away food places and so on.

what eureka miniatures did you buy? (I noticed the postage box in the photos)

[zizi666]

Nice.

I like the fact that your appartment building will be modulable..

As for suggestions : there are several paper model companies that have cool and reasonable priced building models.
even if you're not interested in papermodels, they can be used as templates for scratchbuilt buildings :
http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=19869&&it=1
http://www.scalescenes.com/

For the moment, I'm building a garage (fallout NV) and a TV-station (copy of a plasticville model).
If you're interested I can send you the templates.

[Harrymason]

@Sheerluck: If you have a good way to make buildings, please share! As for the eureka box, I think that is from a frind of mine. I don't remember what he ordered (lots of it though).

@zizi666: Thanksa for the links! While i won't be making a paper model town, they can certainly be used for inspiration. I am also planning on building a garage, and I would really appreciate tour templates.

[Centaur_Seducer]

Really look forward to this project, HarryM

Huddiksvall by night, now that's a horrible scenario for everyone involved

[Brummie]

Is looking rather cool if I say so myself!

[zizi666]

You can get my templates here :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12288625/tv-station.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12288625/Poseidon%20station.pdf
(this is a colored version, with a minor error on the first page where a grey and a yellow block were cut short, so you'll notice 2 small white blocks on one wall that shouldn't be there)

[Harrymason]

Made some stairs...

[Eldorf.Dragonsbane]

You can get my templates here :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12288625/tv-station.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12288625/Poseidon%20station.pdf
(this is a colored version, with a minor error on the first page where a grey and a yellow block were cut short, so you'll notice 2 small white blocks on one wall that shouldn't be there)

Not to hijack the OP's thread, but sweet and Thank You Very Much. Not sure if I will use the Poseidon Station one, but the TV Station will come in handy, already printed the template out on cardstock and going to trace it on foamcore as soon as I pick a sheet or two up.



Edit12JUL2011: Picked up a cheap sheet of Foamcore from the local Dollar Store to do a quick mock up of the TV Station. Building went together fairly easily. Will get some better foamcore and build it again (and decorate/paint it) for use in my ATZ games, due to the size of the interior will probably use the THW Building Interior rules released in I, Zombie (Building Interior Rules are available for free on the THW website, just click on the link for the product description for the Building Interior Tokens).

[Harrymason]

Made another floor...


And a garage.

[zizi666]

Neat !

[Stu]

The thing about WIP threads like this is I get all enthused and stop working on whatever I should be doing. (don't stop posting them though)

[zizi666]

The thing about WIP threads like this is I get all enthused and stop working on whatever I should be doing. (don't stop posting them though)

True ! new (stolen) ideas roar their heads and you want to strat on them before they fade... 

[Sheerluck Holmes]

that garage is awesome - I might "borrow" the design to make a self-storage place 

[mattblackgod]

Great work. Keep them coming.