Thursday, May 24, 2012

Sci Fi Buildings in 15mm

I've been gearing up for some Tomorrow's War action and I needed to make some 15mm buildings for sci fi games.  I'd seen some other folks do buildings using electrical boxes and I thought that looked like a good idea.  So a took a trip to the lumber yard and for a little under $10 I had the start of six buildings.  I glued on some shapes cut from styrene, mat board, cereal box card stock and a few other bits from my recycled junk box.  You can see the results in the picture below, just before I primed them for painting.
The seventh, black building in the picture above was a frozen entree container I had saved quite a few years ago with just such a future project in mind.  After priming I painted them with acrylic craft paints and sealed them with a clear matte spray varnish.  I was pretty pleased with the results.





I wrote up a scenario that would use these buildings and the figures I currently have painted, based loosely on one of the scenarios from the rulebook.  More about that in a future post...

10 comments:

Chris said...

Just stumbled upon these when googling for buildings for my own project. Have to say that these look amazing. Can't believe no one has commented yet! I was prepared to read that they were from some expensive range, not made yourself. I love the idea of sticking. Scraps of card to the basic shapes. That makes a massive difference. Will be bookmarking this page and doing something similar myself!

Unknown said...

Very good, I will adopting similar for my 6mm Battletech project.

PatG said...

Very nice work.

Fred said...

Looks great!

Five Alpha said...

Very Nice

Marc B said...

What kind of glue did you use?

Bill Bennett said...

Hi, Marc. For gluing to plastic parts I used Loctite gel super glue, and for everything else my go-to white craft glue, Aleene's Tacky Glue.

Marc B said...

Thanks for the reply! Trying to closely mimic what you did here. Looks like most of the panel work is the Matt board and not cereal board, right?

Bill Bennett said...

Yes, that's right. Generally, the thinner card was used for the details on the matt board panels. Except for the doors, where the matt board was glued over the card to make the door frames.

DAVID KNIGHT said...

Excellent idea's great use of everyday item's my local building supplies is getting a visit for sure