Scratch built buildings based on old Warhammer Townscape templates

[tomrommel1]

This is a very god start to a nice building collection!!!

[Blue in vt]

thanks all...

Looking really good! How are you going to to the windows?

This is one I haven't completely figured out yet.  I didn't cut out holes in the foam core for them...so I will probably put a thin piece of painted card in each window frame...cover that with a piece of blister pack, also cut to fit ...to give it a "glaze"...and then some sort of wire mesh to look like leading.  What that mesh will be...? I dunno...I've looked at some options but have not been too impressed.  Any suggestions appreciated!

In the mean time...I tackled a couple of smaller projects just for fun last night.

I made the Dog house and the Out house...fun little models.



Frustratingly they "grew" too much when mounted on Foamcore and are now out of proportion.  It works for my two headed friend fluffy here....but that doghouse would be HUGE for most dogs!  The Outhouse as well...unless it is the rare outhouse that is Oldworld Wheelchair compliant...



So I will probably remake those on thinner card to have ones the proper scale...but it was good to have a couple of quick small projects for Sunday night.

Cheers,

Blue

[Blue in vt]

Doors look great. Not so sure about the roof. As you say it has no grain and the planks are very thin. Perhaps remove and retry with balsa?

Certainly a possibility...though one I would like to avoid if possible....hhhmmmm. I may give it a test paint and see how it looks.

Thanks for the advice.

Cheers,

Blue

[Blue in vt]

While I'm still waffling around trying to decide what to do with the roof of the Stone barn I decided to get stuck into a third building...the Half Frame House.

This was certainly the most complex building to date...and the timber framing took a lot of time but I'm quite happy with the result.





Check out how many cardboard strips I used for the shingles!!!



So I started with the small roofs...



I also bought myself a good pair of detail scissors which made the rest of the roofing much more enjoyable.







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And here are all the piece to date all in one place.



Cheers for now!

Blue

[dampfpanzerwagon]

These look great - real olde skool.

Tony

[Lost Egg]

These are looking really cool.

For the windows you could trim some mesh then pour some water effects stuff over the top and leave to set. It should give a more natural look and be less flat.

[tomrommel1]

The buildings are gorgeous!!! Get some paint on them

[Malamute]

Looking great