Dropzone Terrain Project
A building test
I’m waiting for a few bits to arrive to finish off the landing platform and I need primer to get started on the bits and pieces to slot into the foam so in the meantime I had a bit of inspiration for a few smaller buildings.
This one is a test and I was sort of going for the look of Star Wars tatooine buildings.
It is made from a Johnson’s cotton bud container lid, a random plastic dome, a few bits of plasticard and a couple of leftover windows from 4Ground kits. The door is made from a mantic games 25mm infantry base and I grabbed a couple of lights from my 40k city’s of death stuff for over the door.
One tip for cutting the curve into the plasticard to go flush to the building is to use a sharpie on the rim on the lid and press the plasticard to it while it’s wet. Then simply cut along the line.
To paint I used a texture spray can I got from my local diy store a while back, making sure to table up the windows and door/lights, which were then just painted by hand
once the texture set I dry brushed it a few times with different shades of brown and desert yellow and ivory sand. I’m pretty happy with the result and they are quick to produce. I might paint them differently to better tie them into the colour of the foam mountains, Schmaybe… I haven’t decided.
I can build about 8 of these with the plastic domes, so I might experiment with different sized buildings.
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