After a night's sleep my internal editor decided that The Defence of Vim Fuego had a load of unecessary building pictures. So, in the hope anyone will be interested, I split the post in two: first part the troops, second the buildings.
Each building was designed to be wargame friendly: large doorways, plenty of windows, flat, removable or shallow incline roofs,
I scratch-built all the buildings from balsa, foam-core, wooden rods, coffee stirrers, adhesive floor tiles, tequila bottle cap & kebab skewers. The walls are plastered with a mix of sand/PVA glue which dries rock hard and then painted.
The timetables are real old-time Mexican ones I found on-line and scaled down.
I got the church bell from a haberdashery stall in Birmingham's Rag Market.
The tiling on the church and station is corrugated card, top layer removed, cut into strips; soaked in mostly PVA with a drop of water and then placed onto the plain roof piece. Once in place put another one on and so-on until you've covered the roof. Allow to dry, trim and then paint. Remember to start from the the lowest roof edge and work upwards!
Each building was designed to be wargame friendly: large doorways, plenty of windows, flat, removable or shallow incline roofs,
I scratch-built all the buildings from balsa, foam-core, wooden rods, coffee stirrers, adhesive floor tiles, tequila bottle cap & kebab skewers. The walls are plastered with a mix of sand/PVA glue which dries rock hard and then painted.
The timetables are real old-time Mexican ones I found on-line and scaled down.
I got the church bell from a haberdashery stall in Birmingham's Rag Market.
The tiling on the church and station is corrugated card, top layer removed, cut into strips; soaked in mostly PVA with a drop of water and then placed onto the plain roof piece. Once in place put another one on and so-on until you've covered the roof. Allow to dry, trim and then paint. Remember to start from the the lowest roof edge and work upwards!
Vim Fuego Station, track-side
V F Station, side view inc Ticket/Telegraph Office
V F Station, Main Entrance
La Cantina, rear elevation
La Cantina, Front & Roof
Peasant Dwellings 1
Peasant Dwellings 2
Church of St. Wonky
Bell Tower
Church Interior
All the best!
Paul of http://plasticwarriors.blogspot.co.uk/ said:
ReplyDeleteMake it five, how could one resist when a blog contains a town called Vim Fuego!
I love your buildings. Inspirational.
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