Kicking it second edition style with ramshackle adobe huts with surprisingly regular checkerboard markings, this building was conceptually simple yet ran into some problems because of my eagerness to get to work rather than think about it. It is made up of two differently sized Dollar Tree Christmas gift boxes overlapping each other with one of them covered in shaved popsicle sticks and corrugated paper. Wood dowels were shoved through the main building to make overhanging support posts. The orky face rune was 3D printed as was the water tower and pipe setup on the roof. The door, archway, and exposed brick sections were scratch built out of foam. The windows are from the same MDF collection I used in the last building, coming from the shiftinglands Kickstarter.
The real work was covering it with spackle with sufficient depth to make it look like the raised exposed brick sections were actually an underlayer. The initial was rather lumpy and unconvincing so I sanded it down and hit it with a texture spray paint. The painting was fairly simple but somewhat laborious because of all of the built up brush layers and trying to make sure I didn't show any brush strokes. I did a bunch of extra work rusting the exposed metal and then of course free-handing the checkerboard pattern.
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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