Stuck at Home; Keeping myself sane

A couple of years ago I was awarded the prize of the Stoic Arms by 4Ground on the Beasts of War (now On Table Top) website.

I hadn’t gotten around the building the terrain piece because I knew it was quite a large building, and up until recently I didn’t have the space for it once built. It’s made from MDF and is pre-coloured. All the roofs/floors are removable allowing you to place miniatures and game inside the building. Which makes a far more interesting gaming piece than you average scenic building.

I found this at time quite a difficult kit to build, and I consider myself to rather experienced at model making, having been doing this since the early 80’s, starting with Airfix 1/72 kits before graduating to war-gaming and 1/35 scale models.

Now you can build this either with a wood glue or as I did super glue, though if you’re going to go down the superglue area you will get glue over your fingers. This will get rather dirty/discolored on your fingers from the MDF. It’s quite a pain to remove dried superglue from your finger tips.

A top tip before starting is to make sure you have enough pegs and rubber bands as these will come in useful during the course of the build. I suggest that once you’ve built one part of the floors, then whilst it’s drying make a start on the next floor. That way it won’t take as long to build. Have more than one floor on the go at any one time to speed things up.

The instructions could be a little clearer in places as it was difficult to see from the small photos they used to show you the step by step build. This took me several hours over about 4 days to build, a lot of that time was waiting for glued parts to dry. Many sections required to be left overnight for the glue to bond and dry. With it being such a large kit, this was what slowed the build down significantly.

Overall I enjoyed to the process of building this kit, though at times it was a little frustrating, but the end result was worth it. It will definitely make a spectacular centre piece on any gaming table, and could be used for both war-gaming and RPG.

I have to say thanks to both Beasts (On Table Top) and 4Ground for giving this awesome terrain piece as a prize.