Geezers - Underneath the arches......

[Auton]

Are you at Devizes both days? I'll be there on the Saturday running a demo game but not sure about the Sunday yet..

[Overlord]

Yes, I will be there both days.  Come & have a chat/game if you get a chance.   

[Auton]

Will do! 

[Overlord]

Apologies for another bout of threadomancy. 

The Geezers are back, and this time its the waterfront!
(Hopefully in time for Colours: http://www.colours.org.uk/index_files/Page518.htm )
I'm adding a 4'x2' section to my layout comprising a dockyard/warehouse.

I first rescued a section of hardboard door, measuring 24"x6", that I had previously cut off to make my baseboards:


Once I had cleared off the cobwebs & liberated assorted spiders I covered the edge with a thin strip of wood then added some stonework-embossed plastic card & wood piles (Hiding the joins between pieces of plastic card).


I added a strip of foam PVC which I embossed as a row of edging blocks. I then painted the stonework before gluing pre-coloured sheets of embossed styrofoam cobbles to the top ( From Antenociti's: http://www.barrule.com/workshop/scratch%20builders%20paradise/sheet%20materials%20-%20Styrofoam.html )


Finally a close-up of the finished item


I also built a 2'x2' basebord from hardboard & wood to match the height of the existing baseboards.  Part of this was also edged in the embossed plastic card to form the second side of the dockside.

Next up a warehouse...

[Malamute]

Luverley, the Thames. or down by the canal in 'Enders

Can't wait to see it next saturday

[Michi]

It took me an hour to get through this most impressing project. Extraordinarily good work and 100% of what I had in mind to build by myself, from the railway arches to the terraced houses/shops with backyards. I wonder now, how this will be to combine with my own underground level London efforts. It would save me a lot of scratchbuilding if I could get castings of your surface level buildings!

[Hammers]

I was wondering where the hell you were spending your time. Apparently wisely, anyway. Smashing as always, Tall Paul!

[Overlord]

It took me an hour to get through this most impressing project. Extraordinarily good work and 100% of what I had in mind to build by myself, from the railway arches to the terraced houses/shops with backyards. I wonder now, how this will be to combine with my own underground level London efforts. It would save me a lot of scratchbuilding if I could get castings of your surface level buildings!

Thanks for the compliment Michi.

A few of the buildings are available as castings of just the frontages from Outpost Wargame Services:
http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/buildings.html (I made the masters for them).
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=10047.0  has further details.
I hope to produce a few more shortly, including end gables & roof to enable you to assemble complete buildings.

Ever since I saw your excellent castings of the Underground tunnels I have been thinking about combining them (Particularly as I have already built the surface station).  However, I have significant reservations in using them for Geezers.  Armed cops (albeit 1970s ones) running around the London Underground is not a comfortable idea for me (and others) in light of fairly recent events.  However a Pulp (a la Mummy 2 in London) or KKBB/Spy setting would be more acceptable.

I was wondering where the hell you were spending your time. Apparently wisely, anyway. Smashing as always, Tall Paul!

I've been busy with other things since the end of the last LPL.
Now that my slave labour force has returned from the summer holidays its full steam ahead. 

[uti long smile]

Fantastic work as ever - can't wait to see the docks!

[Overlord]

Now for some WIPs of the warehouse:

This is the largest building I have made for this project, on an MDF baseboard measuring 17"x12".
The walls are of 5mm thick Foam PVC.  The brickwork at the bottom of the walls is plastic card.
The windows are 6mm wire mesh with lintels of 1mm Foam PVC.

Roof construction is 3mm MDF with 5mm Foam PVC bracing underneath.  The MDF was then covered in plastic sheet embossed as corrugated iron.  The apex is right-angle plastic strip.  Random smaller pieces were added to add some variation, as if the roof had been repaired over time.

The doors (which open & close) are Wills corrugated iron, with runners of various angle & U plastic strip.

The design was influenced by the warehouses made by Matakishi: http://www.matakishi.com/factory.htm (I also saw the original on Ebay) & Auton: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=6370.0

Front:


Back:


Overhead:


The roof (in 2 sections) removed:

The plastic girder running the length of the building determined the maximum length of the warehouse.

Close-up of the back storeroom & loading dock:


The loading dock can be removed:

Made from various off-cuts of Foam PVC, brick-embossed plastic card & embossed styrofoam cobbles.

Reversing the Transit in:


Loading up:


Leaving via the back door:



  Thats yer lot fer now.  Clear 'orf 

[Ray Rivers]

Absolutely spiffing!

Your work never fails to amaze!

[Hammers]

You've really got a knack for details, Paul. You should build miniatures for the movie industry. Being right in the middle of Life on Mars series 2 DVD box I think it's spot on.

[gamer Mac]

Brilliant stuff.
Great inspiration.
Some very nice detail, especially the doors. 
Looking forward to seeing it painted

[Malamute]

Smashing

[Auton]

Excellent mate, fits the part perfectly!