Since it is the 250th anniversary of the war the Seven Years War Association, really the convention next April, we are planning to devote much attention to the revolution. With that in mind and a whim to do something a bit different I have started a Battle of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton project. I plan on these being "Toy Soldier" type battles with individually mounted figures.
Needing at least 10 buildings for Trenton and seeing the average cost of a 54mm building about $85 plus shipping I decided to make my own from foam core and chipboard.
These photos show the basic construction. I used the chipboard to cut strips and basically used that to make the wood planking. Not hard but very time consuming.
I used plastic strips that I bought to make the window glass frames. Not hard but again time consuming.
So I decided to make a stone building just using the foam core. Much fasted but a bit unstable.
For roads I had some crummy for lying around so I cut that to size, used packing tape on the bottom to give it some rigidity and use what we call spackle hear in the USA to make the road surface.
For troops I am keeping this project on a more economical level so I have been buying BMC figures which are really kids toys.
Simple block painting the painting on the dreaded "Dip" stain process.
Well that is it for now I have made some progress today will try to be better uploading some images.
Thanks for looking as always!!
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