Stalingrad (15mm part VI)

This is sixth part which is covers all my already buildings in some sort of temporarily Stalingrad.

The district near the tractorfactory!

The small ruin in the workersdistrict.

A birdsview of the workersdistrict, check the small fences made of matches in the left bottom.

A small part of stalingrad in all it's glory, you can see the tractorfactorydistrict and the workersdistrict.

How to storage all that terrain? can't have a game my playingtable is now also a storingspace for my algrowing collection of terrain pieces.

Stay tuned for more Stalingrad!!! Buildings such as Pavlovs house, the grain elevator, the central station, the warehouse, the Mamev Kurgan, more ruines and rubble, ...

Stalingrad (15mm part V)

This is the fifth part of my Stalingrad project, this part will cover 3 burned down workershouses.

I still need to paint the burning damage but I haven't a clue how to do it?

The remains of the workershouses after a fierce fire, the only thing that's remaining are the brick chimneys. the German soldiers called those burned down districts, the graveyards because of the distinctive shape of the chimneys and the little cover you could find in those areas.

Another picture of the houses, the chimneys were made of pieces of polystrene. The actual buildings are remains were made of pieces wood.

A birdsview over the graveyard.

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Stalingrad (15mm part IV)

This is the already the fourth part of my stalingrad project. This part covers 4 ordinary stone houses and 1 ruined stone house to fill up some space on my battlefield.

Here you can see 2 of my houses, these were the easiest to make just a square shape of cartonboard, a flat roof and some windows and doors in the frontside.

The other 2 buildings, ...

The 4 houses lined up, these are forming a niece boulevard!

The same boulevard after an German airraid, check the second house which was been bombed by a Stuka bombdiver, ...

The bombed house, a bit closer. Behind the bombed house, the tractorfactory building and a small ruine.

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Stalingrad (15mm part III)

Here you can see the third part of my Stalingrad project which cover trenches, fountains and rubblepiles.

A small fountain made of a angel candle, textured with PVA and sand. The entire fountain was based on a cd. The ring around the angel was an empty tape ring.

Another fountain made on the exactly same way as the first. However i used on this fountain some 15mm soldiers which I cutted up. You can also see the rubblepiles on this pictures, these were very easy to made just cut out a irregular shape of MDF, sand it. Then add a pile a plaster and put some pieces of wood, polystrene and bricks in it. Paint it and ready to rumble, ...

"Bricks in 15mm scale you can make by cutting up matches with a scissor or stanleyknife."

Here you can see one of my 3 trenchpieces, these were made by making a base shape of the trench with polystrene. On this baseshape I added the supports and after that I added plaster, wood, pieces of polystrene to resemble rubble.

A picture of my 5 rubblebases and my one of my fountains.

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Stalingrad (15mm part II)

Here you can see the second part of my stalingrad project which covers 2 ruined appartment buildings. These building are not based on some real buildings from stalingrad but were build based on my feel of a ruined appartment.

The 2 ruined buildings based on MDF of hardboard textured with a canvass (for painting paintings on) and pieces of textured wallpaper (free examples at your local shop). The same basics as the other building,thes buildings were also textured with PVA and sand.

Picture from another angle, where you can see the rubble inside the buildings. The building were made of cartonboard cut out with a stanleyknife and taped with tape to hide the corrugated side of the cartonboard.

Picture where you can see pieces of the remaining floors.

On this picture you can clearly see the textured base and rubble.

And at last a birds view, I really like this picture!

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Stalingrad (15mm part I)

Here you can see the first part of my Stalingrad project. This part covers the tractorfactory bureau which was my first piece for the stalingrad board. i tried to keep it standard so I can also use it for other setting like Berlin, Vietnam teth offensive, Paris, etc

Original building, ...

And my building in all it's glory with some trenches and a homemade fountain inspirated by the real fountain featered in the film "Enemy at the gates". You can also see some russian propaganda posters with slogans like "papa is todt" and a picture of the great leader "Stalin".

The building was made of cartonboard, textured with other pieces of cartonboard and sand. the rubble was made of cheap plaster and pieces of matches I cut to look like bricks. on this picture i still need to attach the pillars.

The backside of the building with a big hole, those damned german invaders!!

Another picture of the artillery damage and inside rubble,...

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Large fortified mansion (28mm)

Here some pictures of my massive fortified mansion (the colours on most of the picture are wrong due to flash, wrong lighting, etc.) The real colours are more subtile.

A picture where you can see the entire mansion with on the left the entry gate and on the right the tower with entrance. The ground was a big piece of hardboard which was covered with filler, sand, PVA and stones and siliconekit to create the interior place and road.

Here a close up of the mansion, with the outer defence wall and the mansion itself. On the corners of the outer defence wall I added piles of earth and pikes to protect those weak points in the mansion's defence.

Here you can see my most favourite part of the project the interior of the watch/guard tower.

This tower's stone part was made of isomo or polystrene, then covered with cheap thick cartonboard to cover up some mistakes :). And then it as textured with PVA and sand for the stony feeling.

The watchtower's roof made with a frame of thick cartonboard and tiled with cartonboard tiles. You can also see a chimney made of polystrene.

here you can see the entry gate with the pikes on the corners. (again to much light, I'm a bad photographer)

The most consmunig part of the project the mansion, this was made of a basic shape of 2 blocks of polystrene covered on the backside with cartonboard and textured the same as the tower. the front was covered with wood and filler to create the old medieval feeling. The windows and door were made separately of a cartonboard basic shape covered with woodstrips and attached painted afterwards.

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Cardboard warhammer 40k titan (part I)

Here you can see some picture of my new project a warhammer 40k titan scavanged by an ork Waaaagh. However on this picture you can't see any signs of orks, on this post I just show the basic legs of my titan entirely made of cartonboard (how cheaper how better)!!

Here you can see the enormous legs of my titan, on his right foot you can see a 28mm napoleonic figure for scale.

Here you can see the middle section where the legs are attached to, I made a flame motive because it was easy to cut out and it was appropriate with the 40k universum of fire, death and war.

Another picture, the legs were made of cartboard and detailled with cereal and pizza box cartonboard. After that I attached plubs of woodglue or PVA that represent rivets.

The final model will be ready in the coming months, it will be painted in a dark grey then drybrushed with a ligter and then I will add some metal colours on the plating like it chipped off.

Also I will try to paint on some ork warcries and some ork patterns with black and white.

So stay tuned, ...

Walled samurai house (28mm)

Here are some pictures of my walled samurai house in scale 28mm.

On this picture you can see the interior of the house with a ricepaper screen. The used materials of this project were cartonboard, filler, wood and some sort of cheap ricepaper. The fencing or walls around the house were made of thick cartboard and the tiles were made of straws (very time consuming!!)

Here you can see the entrance to the house, with a vine crawling up the walls. The vine was made of some sort of dried plant I found when my mother was making floral decorations.

On this picture you can see the japanse garden which is my favorite part of this project!

In the left corner you can see a red tree and all over the garden you can see tiles made of slate.

These slates were painted with a cheap hobbypaint (like all my projects) called "gobi" which is a standard grey after that I drybrushed the slates with "tenerife" a light grey.

Here you see the flocking in all its glory, the pattern was simply to made with 2 sort of static grass purchased at a local toyshop (and a german modelshop when I was on vacation for only 1 euro a bag!!). I just made some shapes ith the lighter grass and then I filled the gaps with the darker one.

Here you can see my house with the roof attached, I'm not so pleased with the drybrushing of this roof. But it's good enought for my standards, you can also see some flocking on the roof to look like moss growing on this poor samurai's house.

And at last a total picture of the project!!

ps: the figures on the photos are "heroscape" samurai's which I acquired when I bought the basic playset of the game "heroscape".

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