Up until now I have been getting along with my old WWII housing stock for my Peninsular games but a couple of days ago decided it was time to build some specific Iberian Peninsula buildings for my Napoleonic gaming. These won’t be fine models, just scratch built buildings meant to look good at a certain distance on a wargame table. I have developed a process for these over the years, and its all very ad hoc, felling my way and mostly inventing as I go along.
This has partly been inspired by the fact that my right eye abandoned me last week and it may be awhile before I can paint miniatures again. So its mostly to simply keep me amused!
Here are some pics to date:
I started with a few high precision sketches of what I thought I might do.
Chose this for starters.
Cut out a bunch of pieces from black foam core and pinned them together. I knew I wanted a foot print roughly 2" X 4". Trimmed up the wonky bits and sketched in features (windows, doors etc.)
Unassembled the pieces and cut out windows and doors.
Did some preliminary detailing, mostly involving ripping off layers of the paper covering the foam core, carving bricks into some of the exposed foam core, scribing lintels across doors and windows...
Glued it all back together (used pins to support some of the weaker bits)
Another angle of it glued together.
More to come!