Making a 10mm Village base

[mollinary]

Fantastic!   Love the look, and totally agree with the 6mm buildings for 10mm figures equation.  Great work.

Mollinary

[cameronian]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55665103@N03/5158035132/in/set-72157625347117602/

I use very underscaled buildings, narrow but relatively high, doesn't mess with the ground scale and looks good en masse.

[Techno]

Awesomely good ! 
Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

Figures will look wonderful on that!

[sam scott]

Now starting on a large outlying farm.



I hope to have a few of these of varying sizes that can either stand alone or be used to add to a village.  They won't all be this big.

-Sam

[sam scott]

Progress on the farm:





I'm now working on blending the buildings into the base by flocking the seam between the building and the base and adding occasional bushes as well.  The point is to soften the hard line there.  I'll also add trees and some bushes delineating the farm yard and path.  I leave enough space for a unit base to be set down later so that they can be visually "occupied" during a game.

-S

[sam scott]

The completed farm:









And a (blurry) shot of how it could fit with the village base to make a bigger town:



-Sam

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

definatly lookin good

[Leon]

These really are very nice.   

[mollinary]

Sam,

Love it!  You have a real talent for this part of the hobby.  Hope. To see many more, and a few shots of them in action.

Mollinary

[nikharwood]

Very nicely done 

[Arsenus]

Very nice work!

[lentulus]

Lovely stuff, couple of questions:

How thick is the styrene?

Do you do anything to "prep" the styrene?  I've had issues with paint adhesion?

What are you using for adhesives for the flock?

[sam scott]

On to village number two.  This one is what our German friends might call a dorf, or what we in the US might call a one horse town.  I love the little church model.



Here it is on its primed .04" styrene base.  I just use regular hardwarestore spraypaint for primer.  This base is about a third the size of the other village.  I have pre-drilled the holes for trees.



When I flock it, I mix paint with PVA glue, and then pour the flock over.  After it's done I spray liberally with Testors Dullcote.  I find this really help secure the flocking to the base.

It looks a little dinky on its own, but I think with a few small farms nearby on the table-top it will be effective.

-S