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Roman Villa

A very simple Roman building I made when Gangs of Rome First came out. Oh how time flies by.

For this you will just need some 5mm thick foam-core, MDF for the base, some card and other easily available scraps. These buildings are heavily inspired by the Touching History series of books that are now sadly long out of production.

First up cut out a base of MDF and using Foam-core make the structure of the main building.  I found it easier to quickly sketch out the footprint of the entire building and then use that to measure out the lengths of each piece.

Once the basic structure was finished, I used cardboard pre-cut paving tiles, available from model railway stockists, to create the paved areas of the courtyard.

Next, I used PVA mixed with brown paint to seal the paving down and made the roofs by gluing corrugated cardboard to pieces of MDF cut to size.  The join in the main roof was covered with a barbecue skewer.

The walls were plastered with poly-filla.

The roofs were undercoated brown, and the walls undercoated white.

The roofs were then dry-brushed with terracotta paint and the walls weathered up.

A red stripe was added to the bottom of the walls and the paving was painted.

The base was flocked, and an insert created for the central courtyard area.

A water feature was created for the central area.

Which of course can be changed out to a garden area and a completely different side garden.

All up this was a very simple build, and the same process can be used to create all kinds of buildings.