This piece was a very long time in coming, owing to my laziness and indecision about how to paint it and early unhappiness about the quality of the patio and roof sections. I rebuilt it several months ago but finally got around to repainting it this week. Is intended to be a tropical colonial Villa on the frontier somewhere, as you'll notice it's small windows and relatively few access points. I intend to use it as a building in colonial Pellucidar, but I think it will serve in many other hot and sunny locales from 18th century Mexico to early 20th century Morocco to some arid frontier world in the 41st millennium.
The building is made out of cheap styrofoam packaging material, glued together to form the main sections of the house, with the side extension and yard added on later and made out of chipboard. The whole thing was then covered roughly in spackle, sanded, sanded again, then finally sprayed with a texture spray paint to hide the unevenness. The roof supports were again made out of chipboard or corrugated cardboard cut at an angle. I used some plasticard roof sheets and a brick sheet for the patio, as both were superior to the corrugated cardboard and carved foam sheet that I originally tried. The windows are MDF from the Shifting Lands Kickstarter I backed some years ago, and the doors are 3D printed resin. The propane/water tank is from a Dollar General toy tank set that I bought years and years ago specifically to use in terrain.
I got these cool 1920s/30s era cars at the flea market today. They are too big at 143rd scale, but they look pretty good next to heroic 28 mm, which are probably around 1:50 scale.
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