SanchoPanza Rides Again - ReVamping Gangs of Rome

The Domus Amet, the Domus Voluptati, the House of Fun, a pleasure house where it is said that the ladies read to their clients upstairs, well thats the rumour, no hanky-panky in there, snigger, where the crowd taberna on the ground floor is full of men wait to be read at. The Domina of the house, The Lady Serena, keep the men in order and has been know to “help” with the readings too but is mainly found wondering around the taberna ensuring everyone is happy. The rumours as that she is a head of a crime gang but no one wants to ask her.

This is the fifth building that has been revamped and upgraded for my Gangs of Rome games and with an upgraded roof and pavement but also this time I have tiled the floor inside the taberna too. The building itself is from Sarissa Precision’s Streets of Rome range, and is called a Lower Rank Insula Corner and it is a lovely kit. Its goo to have these corner buildings as it means you can have these house blocks to add interest on the table.

I have added the fridge liner pantiles to the floor and this time besides adding a pavement I also added a floor inside the building using the Sarissa stencils.

This series of pictures is showing the method used to create the tiling on the taberna floor. It is rather simple and the mixture I used was a woodfiller mixed as a bit of PVA to give it a little flexibility and strength. I masked off the area I wanted to be filled with the floor as there was a pavement to be added and you did not want it to go under the walls either, so left a gap there. I simply spread the woodfiller/PVA mixture, rather like spreading butter, ensuring the stencil is held down tightly, I actually use a cake palette knife, no hobby tax there, for this. Once spread I careful lift the stencil up and leave it to dry.

I did the same process for the cobbles/paving stones outside and then painted it to match my bases for my gangers for Gangs of Rome.