Saturday 22 July 2017

Late War Buildings 2


In this post, I would like to show  how a few different annexes and a bit of extra detailing can make the same basic model look a bit more interesting.



I bought four of these for about 20 quid on EBAY. It is a nice, but fairly basic "German style" cottage seen from front and back. Nice enough, but pretty boring en masse. The first thing I did was to add some extra timber work to a couple of them. Just styrene strip, but effective at this scale.



Here are the two side by side. Just the timber work and a different roof colour, but it makes a difference.


Here on the right is another cottage with timbering added plus a small extension made from plastic sheet and styrene strip. Not a huge difference, but again enough to give that extra bit of something. As well as varying the buildings themselves, you can alter the appearance and add a fair bit of  visual impact with different garden annexes. Here are a few that I have already made, but I am sure I will make more in the future as it is such a cost effective way of ringing the changes when making up a village/town layout.






There really is no end to the variety you can work into your basic building modules. Another option I would like to explore, when I can find the time, is annexes linking 2 or more modules together to make different looking streets using the same basic buildings.



2 comments:

  1. Excellent work ad usual Steve. Are we using these when we try out the new draft rules for WW2?

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    1. They are indeed. Just working on the terrain boards at the moment.

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