I'll be needing to sort Chinese/Indian/generic Oriental buildings in future so...
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... I've quickly sorted a village. Basically, made too many of the Arab type buildings so just built over the top of some of them!
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A lot of village huts seem to have had verandahs so I thought I'd make one like that as well.
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The walls and roof tiles are simply downloaded and printed pictures from the internet rather than 'bought' items. In order to give a bit of variety in the planking I used horizontal planks for the front and rear of the buildings, vertical planking on the sides, doors and window shutters.
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One of the downsides of using a wet PVA glue like school glue is that it causes leaching of ink. This does sometimes give strange looking colours - compare the colours here - but overall I actually like the effect! The greens and yellows just look like weathering.
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OK, to sum up. I now have a small general far eastern village. Not well made or totally realistic but the overall effect is acceptable. They were also quickly and cheaply produced using materials I already had lying around (do the previously completed Arab buildings count as 'materials'?)
At some time in the future I must extend the building programme to include buildings with courtyards, plus more with verandahs.
These look good Rob - coincidentally, I have a few sheets of pantiles sourced on the web that I recently printed off at work with a view to doing something similar for my Pulp games in the Orient - so I may well pinch some of your ideas here!
ReplyDeleteThe main thing I find with card buildings is that can be fragile and benefit from a solid base. I've got hundreds of Weston business card boxes lying around spare - when Garrison was in operation I stored figures in them, many are no longer in use for that - and they are a perfect size for 20/25mm buildings. I just build the building around them.
ReplyDeleteNicely done indeed!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThe buildings look great, the glue seems to have worked in your favour, the tiles look weathered and much more realistic.
ReplyDeleteI like card as a building material, it's lightness is quite often it's strength.
Agree with both points. I like to use card a lot for things, especially if it's for a one off use for something that is later disposable.
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