Arabic vilage (15-20mm)

Here are some pictures of one of my older projects: a small 15-20mm Arabic village. The village consist of a house, minaret and mosk (yes, it's very small :p). It was built to serve in the Middle East during colonial and the worldwar era's.

The entire projects price was under 5 euro's

The tools:

- Stanley-knife

- Scissors (to cut out the cartonboard entrance of the mosk)

- Saw (to cut the bases)

- Hot glue gun (for attaching the houses to the bases)

- Sandingpaper

The materials:

- Filler

- Sand

- PVA

- Pieces of dry moss (collected in the Ardennes)

- Paper tape

- Tooth picks (to hold the walls together)

- 3mm MDF

- A plastic bowl ( for the mosk's roof)

- "Isomo" the cheaper polystren with the little white balls.

- Ironwire and paper (for the palmtree)

- A piece of a napkinholder (for the minaret)

- A isomo ball (for the minaret)

- Fly mesh (for the windows)

- Canvass (for the ground texture)

- Paints (black, green, brown, dark grey, light grey, light blue, dark blue, light sand and dark sand,)

The building:

1) Cut pieces of isomo to form the basic form of the buildings.

2) Glue them together with PVA and toothpicks.

3) Add details suchs as doors, windows, special roofelements...

4) Texture the building with the filler!

5) Glue them to the base.

6) Texture the base with sand, PVA and canvass.

7) Paint the building sand colour, the pavement dark grey and the doors black.

Finished buildings:

A shot of the mosk, house and minaret.

Here you can see the top of the minaret (made with a napkinholder, isomo ball and the top of a medicine bottle which you can't see on the picture!)

A close up of the mosk (watch the details such as the tapistry, bushes and palmtree) and the nice dome. Just a pity, I don't took a picture of the back of the mosk where there is a big window!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and information!

For more information, just ask!

Greets,