Saturday, 17 December 2011

40mm: Contructing a New House

I've been checking out my larger houses which I use for 40mm gaming and realised I could do with a couple more. I wanted something which was neutral enough for 18C and also to be used for my ECW gaming. I found a nice half timbered building picture in a book which showed the front and and one end. I scanned these, scaled then up and printed off two copies on 120gm paper. After some careful cutting I stuck them onto card to ensure everything was square and lined up.
Each section was cut off the card, then the house was assembled (with internal bracing) and stuck on a base.
I added a roof covered with some paper tilessheet, touched in the edges of the building and painted/flocked the base. Seen below with a couple of figures for size comparison
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7 comments:

  1. WSTKS-FM Worldwide17 December 2011 at 12:10

    Wow! That looks really, really good. Nice work.

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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  2. Mosstrooper17 December 2011 at 13:37

    I envy your ability sir !.

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  3. Bluebear Jeff17 December 2011 at 16:03

    Looks very good, sir.


    -- Jeff

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  4. Anonymous17 December 2011 at 20:34

    Excuse the OT but what's the name of the German railway company that makes the scenic backdrops you use?
    /andygamer

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  5. tradgardmastare17 December 2011 at 22:41

    Excellent work with the house. I too would be interested in hearing more of the scenic backdrops too.
    BTW do you scale the house up or down by trial and error or is their a simpler way I have not thought of?

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  6. tidders218 December 2011 at 06:17

    Scenic backdrops: if you go to http://www.gaugemaster.com/ and enter backscene in the keyword search you'll get a nice selection to choose from (OO/HO scale is about right size). My gaming table at the moment uses Gaugemaster's own backscenes(GM70x).

    House Image Scaling: I crop the image(s) so its just the house, the print preview on the photo processing software I use shows image size in inches/cms so its a quick resize then print

    -- Allan

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  7. Anonymous18 December 2011 at 12:01

    Thanks, Allan.
    /andygamer

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