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by Lee Sheppard
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After making a couple of smaller buildings for
Mordheim, I soon wanted to have a go at something that was a
little bit bigger and thus more challenging. This building
represents a ruined former manor house, complete with a walled
yard (with gates through which wagons and/or carriages could be
brought). The modelled damage is meant to represent the building
having been hit by a large chunk of debris when the comet struck
the centre of the city. |
| The house is made of the standard foamcore, balsa
wood, 3mm MDF (for the base), cardboard, sand and sprue rubble
materials I use for all of my buildings. As can be seen from the
photos, both the roof and first floor can be removed to allow
access for the placing of figures. As with my other Mordheim
constructions, all steps are built large enough to hold a
miniature (useful for my Dwarf Warband, who seem to very rarely
make it all the way up or down any building in less than 2
turns). |
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Each part was completed and painted separately,
starting with the ground floor and walls for the yard, then the
first floor, and finally the roof. After I had made the first
floor I found that I could still see gaps between the base of
the first floor and the top of the walls of the ground floor. To
rectify this, I added strips of balsa wood to the base of the
first floor, which then fitted snugly over the outside of the
ground floor walls, hiding any gap. |
| Painting took some time, with lots of drybrushing
of stone walls (the gritty stone effect is created by dabbing
pre-mixed "polyfilla") and wooden floorboards and
supports. I'm very pleased with how it turned out in the end. |
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