A blog dedicated to wargaming - especially Bolt Action WWII games. We aim to play the whole game - figures, scenery, terrain and the story - for players and spectators in demonstration and public participation games.
Sunday, 18 January 2015
The Building Personalisation Project
Everyone helps out. But there's a cost. Girls add pretty bits.
As you may have noticed looking over our blog, we have quite a few buildings from a number of different companies. One issue with this is having our buildings stand out and have more of a personalised nature. Through various means, we have collected many 4Ground terrace houses and they all look pretty much the same. So, in preparation for Cancon 2015 we have finally sat down, done the work and put our own touch on the buildings.
The paint we have used is all from sample pots purchased from the local paint store. We asked the store clerk for any colours which would match the WWII period. It is a sort of restoration, we explained.
Now there is daily Mass at our St Michael's church.
The Church needed some long planned customisations. We built an inner wall with two side doors leading to the rear changing rooms and church office. Then we added a stone floor to the church and lots of different touches such as the stained glass windows and crucifix. My son looked at the bare church and thought, "Why not?" and constructed the altar and sanctuary and then went a little over board and created the altar cloth, candles, host and chalice too. Add in a few religious pictures and of course Saint Michael, patron saint of paratroopers, and the church was finally complete.
Then my wife and daughter got creative and looked in my son's box of many colours and selected lots of bright colours. These made the doors and window sills very special.
A good place to hide a bazooka team
If you are visiting Cancon next week, pop over and you will see lots of special touches. There are carpets and rugs in some of the houses, chairs and tables, glass in some windows, edges highlighted, smoke from chimneys and more. Basically, we wanted to create a town in which people would live so the battle makes a lot more sense.
We did a short video walkthrough of some of the personalisations.
Enjoy.
Looks fantastic Dave. See you at Cancon.
ReplyDeleteReally looking forward to seeing you guys at CanCon again, well done on the personalisation of the buildings. It is the details that tell the story.
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