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Making Dunland Hovels

January 15, 2025

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I have wanted to make these ever since I first saw them in the fantastic Battle Games in Middle Earth Magazine (Issue 67). They are made from Foam board, MDF, toothpicks, tissues, PVA glue and spackle.

You can replace the Spackle with sand for a similar effect.

Unfortunately I lost most of my WIP pictures due to a PC issue and haven’t had a stable internet connection for about a month so it’s a little late but here goes.

This is the most important step. Vary up the walls a little, later in the Project you will see how you can make the buildings unique just by angling the building one way or another. Replace the card base with an MDF one.

While I didn't do this I have included it for completeness. I achieved a similar effect with toothpicks which I will highlight later.

Cover glue the corner wood on first then cover the walls in spackle. leave a few little gaps and remember, the patchier the better, these are dirty hovels.

Again I did this a little differently. I glued broken off paddlepop sticks on the roof then layered on toilet paper or tissues soaked in pva glue to create a papier-mâché roof. My advice is to put some PVA and water on the paddlepop stick, lay on some paper and then apply more PVA and wat rather with a brush rather than soak it as you would traditional paper-mache.