Housing Build: 2nd Block Roofs and Windows

Following yesterday's post I have added the roofs, windows and doors to another bock of 2 houses. So I have partially finished a "street" of four houses. Pictures of the fronts and backs above. Again the roofs are a bit rougher than I had intended them to be but all things considered they meet my wargaming "looks good from 2 feet on the table" standard.

I have another block of 2 houses and a small warehouse type building yet to do, I'm running low on foamboard so I'm not sure If I will manage to finish the warehouse any time soon.

Thanks for looking.

Housing Build: First Roofs/Windows

Just finished putting the doors, windows and roofs on the first two buildings. I'm not really happy with the roof's they look much rougher than I wanted them to and despite careful measuring there both not as neat as I had expected either.

Ho hum hopefully the next ones will look better, still lots to do.

Housing Build: 3 quarters of a street

Just a quick update on my progress on the housing estate. I have now managed to get 6 houses part built and based on their wooden base boards. These can be set out back to back as shown so an alley way runs down the backs of the houses. Or they can be lined up with a narrow alley running down the backs of the houses. Most of the houses are in light red brick, but one set is in darker older looking brick as I was running out of the light colour.

I don't think its an issue. One  small problem I should have considered, storage, I will need some pretty big plastic boxes to keep these safe!

Hope to get the roof's on these by the end of the week, and then get the ground work done. Lastly I will be sticking on the doors and windows. As ever they will be print out jobs, although I either need to get cracking in paintshop myself or beg the wife to do them!

I am also working on a small red brick warehouse on a base the same size of these so it can sit on the same "street".

Sorry for the crappy pictures its late, and there is not much light.

Housing Build: First fix

Started a new terrain project today (as well as having spent the morning doing some 1:1 modelling in the Garden with my father putting up a fence).

I need to buy more MDF and print some more textures, but I'm going to do a couple of 30cm x 30cm blocks like this with two houses on them. The plan is to leave an alley way running along the back (in the foreground of the picture) and then have a pair of these back to back so there is a car width alley between the rows of houses.

I know that having the houses fixed on a base like this limits there use a bit, but I wanted to easily incorporate an alleyway and path etc between the houses so they look better on the table. My compromise is this so you can move the blocks around and use fewer or more, but you don't have a load of separate road, and path and other stuff to get bashed about and knocked during the game.

They are based on 6mm MDF which is a touch thicker than a single bit of foam board, some probably won't like the lip it leaves on the gaming table, but I like the strength the MDF gives the terrain, and solidity it gives it on the table so people leaning in to move troops cannot easily knock a house over or what ever.

I'm undecided at the moment as to whether the roofs will be removable or not, I'm thinking not at the moment.

R.E.C (Rear Echelon Chaps)

I've pretty much finished my little VBCW style Diorama thing for my forum entry. Still might add some little bits like labels to the crates, but in the main this is finished. I will probably take some more pics of it as well, as I noticed the red ball looks much shinier in the pics than it is in reality (probably light shining off it or something when I took the pictures).

Anyway for what it is I present the R.E.C (Rear Echelon Chaps). Having unloaded the supplies these two decided the next most important thing to do was to crack out the croquet set and have a quick game. The war will wait after all.

I'm pleased with how this turned out, mainly because it gave me a use for these figures who would otherwise have languished in the lead pile for ages or been painted and never made it out of the cupboard. I will be popping these down with my supply vehicles and the like at future games, and most certainly at Partizan in June (which I'm quite looking forward to now).

Zombie Reporter

And now a word from our correspondent in the field.....................oh it seems we are having technical difficulties, up next Survivor.

This is another of the Studio Miniatures plastics which I have modified. The original figure has a massively torn shirt, which i decided to cover up wit this Kevlar vest. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out, although I wish I had worked a bit longer on the vest there are some silly mistakes in sculpting it which even I could have fixed.

My writing of TV on the front and back didn't come out as crisp as I would have liked but it looks okay.

Mr Brown, another pin stripe fellow

I some how managed to paint this figure up in just 3 hours 45 minutes this evening, given the short time it took me to paint I'm pretty pleased with how it looks. He will be accompanying the figure in the black pin stripe on my VBCW diorama thingy.

I'm glad I managed to get this out of the way today as I'm pretty busy for the next couple of weeks and didn't think after today I would have much time to paint him up.

Here's both figures together.

Thanks for looking, and sorry the pictures are a bit poor I wanted to get this uploaded tonight as I'm busy tomorrow.