Well, Covid has finally grabbed a foothold in our fortress of a house, putting me out of action for a week. Although really only the first day felt like anything other than a crappy cold-type situation. Anyway, this was a great opportunity to sweep up some odds and ends that have been laying around for years. I had some resin castings that I picked up from eBay plus a Sarissa MDF house or two and a nice Hovels bridge. I decided to make a centre piece for a town with a proper river section sunken down into the board. I had a nice piece of 3mm MDF to mount it all on, and used lots of polystyrene to build up a few layers. Cobble streets were made with modelling clay and my cobble textured roller. There are two more houses to go at one end of the town which are 100% scratch built and not quite completed. I dressed up the MDF houses with new roof tiles, floorboards and chimney pots. A little bit of work goes a long way. Realistically i think this will be the town centre for a much bigger layout (maybe a battle for Caen or something), as i can surround this with more houses, rivers and roads to cover a whole 5 x 8 foot table. Next up will be finishing the last two houses and then can texture the open ground with glue and sand before painting. I have also started making bricks and rubble as I am going to need quite a bit of it to decorate the place, considering all the ruins!!






Crikey, Will, that’s an impressive looking board so far! π Reminds me of the town at the end of Saving Private Ryan! Will be good following your progress on this!
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ah yes that amazing scene. now making piles and piles of bricks to add to the ruins. then will have telegraph poles, street signs and other details to add. Maybe a sandbagged position too would look good, or a pill box or something…..
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I buy my brick cheaply from https://www.knightsofdice.com/product/bag-of-bricks-200g/ – makes the task quite easy!
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wow thats a good deal $12 for 200gms – i did buy some Juweela bricks but they are a bit pricey. I am already bored using my tedious methods so i think i will grab half a kilo of these MDF ones. Thanks for the tip!!
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All sounds good! π It’ll keep you busy!
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Amazing work Will , love it, making bricks is crap work, I would buy them also!
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they are super bricks too – on the big side for 1/72 but i mix them with smaller stuff and it looks great!!
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ππ»π€
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