Small Concrete Store - Warbases

 At Warfare 2024 I bought a number of Warbases' World War 2 buildings. One of them was the small concrete shed. The plan was to use them for Modern and When Nightmares Come games.

Something in the shed is attracting the attention of some vermin.

By design, the roof appears just to rest on the top of the building. Unlike many of Warbases' buildings, the floor does not have a step, it rests within the building (which lead to a mistake in construction). This, and my idea to place the building on a scenic base gave me the idea that I could use the "floor" as a plug within the building to hold the roof securely. So it was glued centrally to the roof piece.

Having assembled the building, I realised I had put the wall with the door on upside down, there should just be one concrete plank at the base of the door.

However it did lead to an idea for the buildings function, to contain a pump system. To prevent the ingress of flood water, there is a double raised lip, and the lower concrete planks are sealed with bitumen paint. Fuel is supplied in drums, but he suppliers are a bit lax in removing the empties, so they get left outside. 

The door and window are still to be decided

At Warfare in 2024

Scotia-Grendel Ruined Greek temple

Another item I bought at SELWG 2022. 

The kit comprised a circular base, five full height pillars, one half heigh pillar and three cap stones.

The pillars are plain.

Two of the pillars were pinned by drilling through from underneath, the other four were just glued in place. A circular infilled was cut to fit the inside.

Milliput was used to fair in the base of the pillars and to add some rocks and additional pieces of masonry. The ground was covered in a mixture of Woodland Scenics fine Cinder Ballast and some generic granite ballast.

The underside was sprayed with Citadel Mechanicum Standard Grey (I had run out of Halfors Grey Primer) The visible surface was sprayed with Citadel Zandri Dust, with a Zenithal spray of Humbrol Desert Tan.

It was then extensively dry brushed with Citadel Tyrant Skull followed by Citadel Terminatus Stone.

Once fully dry it was shaded with Citadel Agrax Earthshade. Another dry brush with Citadel Terminatus Stone brought up the detail.

Gamers Grass 6mm Dense Beige Tufts provided some plant life on the ground and a mixture of Woodland Scenics fine and coarse Burnt Grass turf created the greenery growing on the stones.

An Oathmark Human Infantry figure for scale.

The Infantr7yman retreats before the Living Statue

Overhead view.

TT Combat Slum Blocks

 At Salute 2021 I bought the TTCombat Slum Blocks building kit.

The kit builds five small buildings, that also stack.

The set comprises three laser cut sheets of MDF.

A set of walls.

Walls and a roof.

Roofs and accessories.

This is the first assembled building.

The white plastic "skirting boards" cover the indentations that are part of the stacking system. The walls are going to be covered with a skin of Milliput for a concrete affect.

William Killian and a Stargrave zombie for scale.

Spiral Arm Studios building accessory sprue provides an AirCon unit and a door.

Plus a ladder and a ventilator.

The roof has a panel of Slaters anti-skid textured plastic.

Liquor Store - Warbases

At Salute, I planned to buy some Wild West buildings from Sarissa, but they did not have any stock. So I was looking through the Warbases models.

The first building I have started is the Liquor Store model. 

Interestingly, there is a number of circular "holes" in the sheets - the company name probably answers the question, I assume that they are bases that have been removed.

The building as supplied will sit "flat" on the surface, but I thought it would look better (and deal with irregular surfaces better) with the base raised using lengths of 4mm square section bass wood.

The outer ones are full length, the middle one is in two parts.

The roof has a noticeable groove where the two panes join, a length of 1.5mm diameter plastic rod was added to smooth that over. Three lengths of single ply tissue paper was then glued to the roof to act as tar paper.

The walls were painted with Vallejo Old Wood, the floor and frames were painted with Army painter Oak Brown.

Additional tidying up is required and it needs weathering.

More ruins for Frostgrave

 This is another of the Renedra Ruins (frame A). This is based on a Renedra oval base.

As supplied it is slightly longer than the base, so I cut the end of the wall off and rotated it by 90 degrees.

The gaps where the parts were cut off were filled with Milliput.

Platikote Rust Effect spray paint was used as a base coat toggle the surfaces some texture. It was then sprayed with Citadel Chaos Black.

The whole thing was dry brushed with Citadel Mechanicus Grey, followed by Citadel Terminatus Stone.

And here it is with some Gnolls.

The Gnoll Linebreaker skirts the ruin.

Ruins in the Frozen City

Some additional photographs of the two pieces of ruined buildings.

More Ruins in the Frozen City

So another piece of ruin for the Frozen City.

 Like the previous one, this is built from two pieces from the Renedra Ruins Frame C and a Products for Wargamers Scatter Terrain laser cut MDF base.

 Two pieces were assembled, and then alternate end blocks were cut out so the two pieces interlocked.

An Oathmark Human Infantry figure for scale.

Desirable Property - Medium Dacha

At SELWG 2019 I ordered a couple of the Sarissa Precision Russian village houses.

The Russian Village House #1 is slightly larger than the Russian Village House #2 in the previous post.

The kit comes as two sheets of laser cut MDF and one sheet of laser cut greybeard, plus instructions.

Once again, as this was going to be a "modern" dacha, I plated over the roof with plain plastic card, and then added ribs from plastic strip. This roofing style is similar to the dacha in the photograph here. It also covered up the gap where the chimney should have gone.

I probably should have increased the overhang a bit to hide the double thickness roof.

The walls are painted Citadel Zandri Dust (spray can). The roof is Army Painter Chaotic Red (spray can again). The window frames and door frames are Army painter Skeleton Bone. The door is Army Painter Oak.

It needs weathering.

 Sarissa Precision Picket Fence (27mm tall) provides some cover.