11.03.07

What size buildings?

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:27 pm

If you look at Grant’s book, The War Game (and if you haven’t why not!?!?!) you’ll find this picture:

 The footprint of the buildings he has here are pretty small. The cabin I built looks like this:

The doors and windows on the cabin are low and small for the 25-8mm range. Initially I thought they were too small until I looked again at the Grant buildings. Those windows are lower and the doors even smaller!  A few other Old Schoolers have used different methods. Here’s a few (pictures used with permission.)

Stokes Schwartz Duchy of Alzheim

Phil Olley Phil’s War Cabinet

Phil Olley Phil’s War Cabinet

These are super examples of OSW style buildings. I think that one factor all have in common is that the footprint on the table is small, limited to a company size element at most, but they are taller than the figures (note where the bottom of the roof is). I think that this is the secret to having a good looking OSW building, despite what scale it is.

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04.17.07

Buildings….

Posted in Fictional Countries, Terrain at 9:32 am

This is a resin, six piece building that my friend, Brent Collins, designed and sculpted for our use as a for retail sale, stand alone, wargaming item. This is a fast painting job on the building but I think it still came out looking boffo! I used a black gesso for priming the roof and then dry brushed it with Red Gore and Bright Red. The walls were glued with Super Glue, then primed with grey auto primer in several light coats. The rock sections were painted black and then dry brushed with two colors of grey. The wood was painted with Bestial Brown and then lightly dry brushed with Vermin Fur. The panels were painted with Bleached Bone and then I used diluted Skull White to give the whiter color towards the center of each panel.

The roof comes in two sections and does not have to be glued so the roof can come off. We are looking at having separate detailing panels for the interior.

We are looking at selling this for a retail price of $19.95. Comments would be appreciated.

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