Spanish Village WIP(Orange tree added added)

[The_Wisecrack]

  :ook now i need a tutorial of some kind and i second arcticmans question: what is the ornage stuff you used to create the doors and windows on the church. TUTORIAL. (and templates  )

[Lt. Hazel]

The orange stuff is air-drying-clay. Very cheap and works fine. I used this tutorial http://www.croebern-1813.de/40235.html . It´s in german, but if you scroll down you see the steps. You need cardboard (paper or plastic) or styrodur to build the basic structure. Then cover it with double-sided tape. Roll the clay flat and press it on the basic structure. Cut out doors and windows and modell some "extras" like fragile finery. For the doors and other woodwork I use woodsticks from McD.
Glue the house on a plastic-card base.   

[Argonor]

Love the way that clay cracks up 

[Lt. Hazel]

Love the way that clay cracks up 

Me too 

[Rhoderic]

Nice job! I've tried doing similar stuff with clay (packed earth floors out of DAS Pronto to be precise) but found it too hard to work with. It took a bit too much force to press as flat as I wanted it (which risked making the underlying material buckle) and once it had dried, I found it had shrunk enough to need retouching around the edges. That crackling effect is very cool though. I might just reconsider this modelling material again.

[Lt. Hazel]

painted

[Malamute]

Looking great

Can we have a shot of the whole village soon with fountain etc

[Regulator]

Looking great

Can we have a shot of the whole village soon with fountain etc

Yeah, a shot of the whole village would be great!

[Grimm]

Sooooo cool you are a Master of house building !!

[Dan]

That looks really good . Hope you dont mind me asking but why do you have leaping naked men on your wall 

[Lt. Hazel]

That looks really good . Hope you dont mind me asking but why do you have leaping naked men on your wall 

No problem! It´s a postcard a friend send me, the text is : "life is full of little surprises"
Makes me smile everytime I look at it (don´t know why  )

[Bako]

Very interesting stuff. Might have to implement something similar for some hovels later on.

[Westfalia Chris]

Absolutely swell. I hope to get my hazienda/monastery done until the meeting.

[Lt. Hazel]

Absolutely swell. I hope to get my hazienda/monastery done until the meeting.

That would be great!Next thing I will build is a windmill 

[Overlord]

Excellent stuff Lt 

Nice building, well painted. It really looks the part.