"city blocks" Topic

any suggestions for easy scratch building of 28mm city blocks?I have a lot of ruined stalingrad type buildings…but my wood plank battleboard is all nature based…love gelstone.

Not technically "scratch" but have you looked at the Dust Tactics "Warzone Tenement" sets. Fairly affordable wall kits for urban settings. I did mine up in more of a near-future/modern style, but it might give you some ideas.

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Thought about these?

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I have the admin and HQ buildings, great table fillers and easy to mod/extend as required………..mine have been re-floored for use with 20mm figures……..got my eye on the factory now!

When I did my Victorian London layout, I could not find buildings that I liked to use for my Whitechapel pub and row/terrace houses so I scratch built them. When scratch building I like to work with plastic (probably because I grew up building plastic models and I'm comfortable with that medium). I began by building the inner core or skeleton of the building with Duplos. That gives the building both strength and uniformity in terms of the height and length of the walls. Once the knobs are cut of the upper most row of Duplos (thus a flat surface), I glue the Duplo skeleton together and then I cover it with plastic sheet cut to fit in the pattern I desire. In the case of the Whitechapel buildings the pattern I used was the brick pattern by JTT Plastic. Once the outer covering was completed I made the doors and windows out out Evergreen plastic. You can see the outcome in pics 47 (the pub, three row/terrace houses and two passageways) and pic 17 which is a close-up of the pub at link

Hi

Find a copy of the old GWS 40k codex call cityfight. It is full of modeling ideas and layout for ruins. I did a huge Stalingrad layout using there ideas.

That's real nice work ordinarybass: kudos.

John T

Thanks John,
Having seen your work I consider that high praise.
Made a couple more recently, but they're a bit cyberpunk'ish.
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Not quite suitable for a ww2 layout ;-)

Autoblinda,
Again it's not scratchbuilding, and it's a touch American in style, but the "Ameri-town" line of o-scale kits has some nice urban options and are actually quite affordable.
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You want matakishi's teahouse link

Robert

The Matakishi teahouse method is fairly simple, although the cork I was using had to be glued to a backing to keep it from bowing. Of course I was doing Medieval stuff (I grabbed a bunch of Gothic windows from a steam punk Pegasus set). Its the details, windows, doors, staircases and the like that I find hard. "O" scale kits would be great but expensive to do a city with. Have you considered paper? I ran across this site with plenty of info and links;

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Cardboard works well……..