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Post by NKL AeroTom on Sept 21, 2016 11:24:29 GMT
Turning a box into a building, even in death it will still serve our table:  Gluing the base solid. It will be 3 levels, and the top 2 levels will come out to allow you to move units through the building. Made to accomodate Ostfront bases. Lower level walls and the 2 floors have been cut and glued, and tomorrow I will glue the ground floor walls in. |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Sept 22, 2016 5:40:23 GMT
 Gluing ground floor walls in |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Sept 28, 2016 8:53:50 GMT
 First floor in and with battle-damage and miniatures for scale. Second floor gluing on the right |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Sept 28, 2016 8:54:43 GMT
 With 2nd floor in. Next step is painting! |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Oct 1, 2016 11:01:49 GMT
 Undercoated black - next step: grey drybrush |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Oct 3, 2016 15:19:59 GMT
 A bit of paint thrown on, and some graffiti. Next step: Snow Flock |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Dec 22, 2016 5:27:01 GMT
Putting together some buildings to make a Shanghai table - trying to use color photos of period buildings, but not too easy to find. Once I found some suitable images, I printed them out, and glued them to some cardboard boxes I had lying around (mostly from having miniatures shipped to me...) I knew I kept them for a reason! A quick and easy way to make your own buildings at home. Applying PVA glue with a brush - you dont want too much, just a very thin coat so the paper doesn't warp  Some of the buildings with miniatures for scale. Not perfect, but better than no buildings:  |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Dec 26, 2016 5:48:24 GMT
Making sandbags from modeling clay (use gloves so there aren't any fingerprints when you work with them). Make sure its an air-dry type of modelling clay. don't want to have to bake things....  Some of the sandbag positions with buildings (and a few 1:76 1930s cars from Oxford Commercials)  This is the kind of scene I'd like to end up with, next step is to build some ruined buildings, and paint the sandbag positions.  |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Dec 27, 2016 13:07:39 GMT
Gluing down the dried clay sandbags. They don't adhere to the cardboard so need some PVA. Some of them break apart too, so glued any parts that came apart. Could be fiddly in places!  Make sure they pass the "drop test". I accidentally dropped the whole lot, but thankfully not too many broke... |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Dec 29, 2016 4:32:39 GMT
Some of the finished sandbags and buildings in a Shanghai 1937 display with Chinese forces:  |
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Dec 30, 2016 7:59:37 GMT
Here's some of the printable PDFs I used to print these building from, feel free to download and use yourself. There are city textures, and ruins textures. Some of the ruined building textures come in 2 parts - a front and a back. Cut these in half along the centre (length-ways) Glue one side down to solid card, allow to dry then cut around the outline of the building (removing the more modern background buildings in some cases) with a sharp stanley knife / craft knife. Then you can cut around the back image with scissors and glue it in place - it should fit precisely on the back, as its a perfect mirror image of the front image. Here's the PDFs you can print from: www.mediafire.com/file/r9d7lpxu5blxzu7/PRINTABLE_TEXTURE_PDFs.rarBeware its 60MB for the lot - mostly high quality full A4 size images. Here's some of the double sided ruined buildings in action, as well as the wooden plank textures put to good use - building some today: Textures glued to large piece of card: (double sided textures already cut out and assembled by this stage - only concrete, roof, wood remain)  One of the double sided ruins:  Back side: dont worry about being messy, any mistakes can be covered with paint - I will blacken the buildings in places to make them look burned.  Another view:  The 3 other ruined sections I put together in the same sitting, a bag of off-cuts and some of the balsa wood "bricks" visible - for use in future ruins:  Inspiration for the wooden planks - a real photo of Shanghai in 1937:  |
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