"Pillage Yourself a Village from your FLCS" Topic

Irrational Number Line Games' Idea of the Week is a tutorial for pumping out a decent number of "filler buildings" for a generic 16th-20th century European village. Not centerpieces of artistic delight, but functional and sturdy, as well as easy and cheap to acquire.

A few options on what to use and additional detailing gives some flexibilty in style. Genericity also helps you pick these buildings up and drop them in a decent range of different milieux (examples given).

great ideas ! I'd picked up a stack of those at michaels, at a buck a pop, eearlier this year. This will motivate me to do something with them. hadn't thought of combining units ?

Great tutorial! I would be curious to see what someone could do with these talking the detailed path. You've made a brilliant case for the quick and easy. Thanks for sharing.

dropzonetoe did a more detailed treatment of the same kits.
TMP link

I have a stack of them I need to work on some time too…

Thanks for the compliments and the link to the other treatement.

I have a few spares (and the bigger house kit, too) and will probably get around to them after a couple of weeks.

If anybody else gets around to theirs (or goes and gets some more -- it's a great little craft to sit around the table with family and do (and honestly, some of them I did are achievable by a first grader)) I would love to see them here … other paint scemes, mods, bits to add, etc.

I've got five of the villas on the table right now – 1 fortified stone building for 28mm, 1 stone church (w/cross added) for 15mm, 2 Tudor-esque houses for 15mm, and a North American wood fort building for 15mm. The stone was done with textured spray paint I picked up out of the remainder bins at Michael's. A few roofs were enhanced with card shingles.

I've used some of the birdhouses too, more for less-serious Songs of the Splintered Lands projects. I'll try to get some photos up on my blog of the current state of the projects.

I've used round paper mache (sp?) bird houses to make generic African native huts. The pots scattered in the village are pre-painted plastic beads glued to 1/2" metal bases.

link

I also have a pair of paper mache boxes that will eventually be made into a generic North African/Middle Eastern building.

Jim

Great caption, made me smile :)