These easy to build hot-glue and cardboard with card stock roof tiles. I could have left them at that, or original plan of pva strips of card stock as planks before painting brown.
Reclaimed some old strips of flaked plywood from a weathered tabletop which I rescued from a skip in Cheltenham in 1999 and left outside over winter of 2020-21. Cut into average 4mm strips it looks more realistic than faking old wood from lollipop sticks.
The process took several days to complete the whole batch of buildings during which I realised sticking them to paper or stick card and cutting that to shape to stick to the corrugated buildings after hot-gluing them into shape would probably save a lot of time.
Currently pondering what colour to paint the tiles and whether the wood actually needs painting, either with wood varnish to strengthen the old plywood strips from crumbling or 50/50 pva and acrylic with tan-grey drybrush highlights and a black-brown wash as is traditional method found on many YouTube crafting tutorials.
They are quite small.
The scale of the buildings is 1”x2” 1.5”x2” 2”x3” not using precise measurements however the height is universally exactly 2”
There are lean-to’s added as well as overhangs on the first and second floor buildings.
This enables the ground level to have a lot of exterior space for character models to wander around and between the buildings. None of them are intended as internal locations. None of the rooftops are flat either so climbing along rooftops like ninjas is not intended for this aesthetic scenery.
Doors and Windows are not actual holes. Making interior props would be a waste of time for these little guys. Doors and Windows are stuck on, using matchsticks for frames, the flaked plywood strips for doors and shutters.
For such a simple and affordable process the result is something I’m pleased with, it looks quite professional.
This method will most definitely be replicated in future for city builds, Tudor-style buildings using pva and baking soda to texture the card as wattle&daub between wooden beams.
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