Affordable housing for happy Soviet peasant collective farm!
Oct 15, 2019 9:45:24 GMT -9
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Post by alloydog on Oct 15, 2019 9:45:24 GMT -9
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Battlefieldin from a Box
About a year and a half ago, I bought the Flames of War Stalingrad starter set.
As well as some tanks, it comes with some "top-down" terrain card pieces: an Orthodox church, three farm houses and some fences/obstructions.
You can buy 3D model sets for both the Rural Farm Buildings and Rural Church.
Soon after, I decided to make some 3D farm houses myself, using card and wall paper. That didn't go too well. It wasn't that the idea was flawed, more the execution. The base card I used was too soft, the window shutters were too fiddly and I couldn't find any suitable wallpaper to use as the thatched roofs. The completed wall sections have remained that way for about a year now...
A couple of weeks ago, I came across Dave Graffam's Long House model.
Rather than try to replicate the FoW models, I decided just go for something similar. I also felt that the model kits seemed a little bit too small to be houses people would live and the Long House seemed just right,size wise.
I used the base texture (no wood, stones or bricks) for the plastered walls and the thatched roof option. I took a copy of the door and shuttered window and made a separate image file with many doors and windows, so that I could put the door where I needed it and have more windows all round.
I didn't bother to worry about accurate scaling and printed them up at 50% normal size onto A5 paper.
Although the roofs are a bit rough - I cambered the roof ends as well, to match the models, I'm quite happy with the results:
Even though I made some buildings for my 15 mm fantasy war games at 45% of full-size, the new additions will still match - I will make all new models at 50% from now on.
I'm making the long house wooden version next, because when I googled for wwii russian farm house, nearly all images showed wooden houses, not plaster-walled ones. After that, I may attempt the Orthodox church...
One request, for you chaps and chappesses who do these building models: I noticed in the models, the wood planks for walls always seem to run vertically |||. However, nearly every wooden house I have seen in real life has the wood panels running horizontally =. Could someone please, please, pretty please do a ye olde looking style house with horizontal beams. Did I say "please"?
Battlefield
About a year and a half ago, I bought the Flames of War Stalingrad starter set.
As well as some tanks, it comes with some "top-down" terrain card pieces: an Orthodox church, three farm houses and some fences/obstructions.
You can buy 3D model sets for both the Rural Farm Buildings and Rural Church.
Soon after, I decided to make some 3D farm houses myself, using card and wall paper. That didn't go too well. It wasn't that the idea was flawed, more the execution. The base card I used was too soft, the window shutters were too fiddly and I couldn't find any suitable wallpaper to use as the thatched roofs. The completed wall sections have remained that way for about a year now...
A couple of weeks ago, I came across Dave Graffam's Long House model.
Rather than try to replicate the FoW models, I decided just go for something similar. I also felt that the model kits seemed a little bit too small to be houses people would live and the Long House seemed just right,size wise.
I used the base texture (no wood, stones or bricks) for the plastered walls and the thatched roof option. I took a copy of the door and shuttered window and made a separate image file with many doors and windows, so that I could put the door where I needed it and have more windows all round.
I didn't bother to worry about accurate scaling and printed them up at 50% normal size onto A5 paper.
Although the roofs are a bit rough - I cambered the roof ends as well, to match the models, I'm quite happy with the results:
Even though I made some buildings for my 15 mm fantasy war games at 45% of full-size, the new additions will still match - I will make all new models at 50% from now on.
I'm making the long house wooden version next, because when I googled for wwii russian farm house, nearly all images showed wooden houses, not plaster-walled ones. After that, I may attempt the Orthodox church...
One request, for you chaps and chappesses who do these building models: I noticed in the models, the wood planks for walls always seem to run vertically |||. However, nearly every wooden house I have seen in real life has the wood panels running horizontally =. Could someone please, please, pretty please do a ye olde looking style house with horizontal beams. Did I say "please"?