Building buildings

To start:

Earlier this I picked up a copy of Spectre Operations, I had been playing with the idea of buying it for quite a while and after reading some battle reports of the game I went for it.

Reviewing the game could be for another post but after reading the rules it looks awesome. I have yet to play a game.

So this is where I start, all my terrain is 15mm, spectre is for 28mm so rather than spending a small fortune on buying buildings I decided I would build some.

Materials

To start I gathered up all the modelling stuff I have buying over the years but never get round to using,

-craft knife

-metal ruler

-glue gun

-5mm foam board

-cork granules (or sand/small pebbles)

-PVA glue

-pen/pencil
-fine grade sandpaper

-polyfiller

-lollipop sticks (or the coffee stirring one's Costa let you have free, although do get the odd look when they think your stirring your latte with 30 odd sticks)

-really thin MDF (had to buy this one)

And the most important bit,

-imagination

To get a building design either doodle one down of go on Google images, once you have something you like then your set to start building.

But, my method is to look at Google images and find something close to what I want and doodle down the changes, But then add and change things as I'm building it.

Building it

Firstly I made the outer walls, they are 70mm high, doors are 40mm high and 30mm wide.

Windows between 20mm and 40mm in height but width can be anything you choose (forgot how wide I done mine).

Then glued them on with the glue gun.

Interior walls are 45mm high.

Then I cut out a roof section (access hole 20x20mm) and glued in lollipop sticks on the inside of the exterior walls level with the interior walls. This creates a lip for the roof to rest on.

Then mixed water, PVA and polyfiller into a paste and coated all the edges where the foam is exposed, filled in unwanted gaps and gave the exterior walls a thin coating.

Let this dry and give it a light sand down.

Brickwork note! Slice off the card exposing the foam and using a pen/pencil draw a brickwork pattern and push into it as you draw.

Roof note! The flat roofs tend to warp when you paint them, so I glued some lollipop sticks to the bottom for extra strength.

Then covoured the floor in PVA and sprinkled in the cork, plus a few chunks of foam board to add texture.

Once dry I then painted the whole building in a PVA and water mix. This bonds it all together.

Then I sprayed it with a black undercoat, This is where you find out if you have any exposed foam as the aerosol tends to melt it.

Painting it!

I gave all the outside walls a coat of heavy ochre 72.150.

floors got a coat of German camo beige ww2 70.821

inside walls had a coat of field blue 70.964

brick areas had ochre brown 70.856

Once dry I gave all surfaces a second coat,

inside walls dark blue grey 70.904

outside walls dark sand 70.847

And give floor a second coat.

To make areas look mucky I added some Agrax earthshade.

paint bricks stone grey 70.884

I then highlighted all walls with stone grey 70.884.

lastly add varnish.

And there you have a nice building to hide in/storm and blow up.