"Small 28mm ECW buildings" Topic

I have been making a fair few ECW buildings for my 28mm collection for a while now and decided that I needed some small generic buildings that could be used for anything from small cottages to stables and workshops.

With that in mind I decided that some small stone buildings would be good as a starting point and as it happened I had 6 small blocks of polystyrene ready cut in the shape of buildings. I wrapped these with stone effect paper and glued them with PVA and then glued on the roof sections which were wrapped with tile or thatch effect paper. Once dried the the widows and doors were glued in place and chimneys made from polystyrene carefully wrapped with stone effect paper were also glued on.

This completed the basic building stage and I then cut out some hardboard bases of various sizes rounding off and sanding the edges in the process. The building were glued in place and courtyards and paths were also glued down. The buildings were all left to dry thoroughly and then varnished with acrylic varnish to protect them from wear and tear. Again they were left to dry and the bases were scattered and finally some small bushes added for effect.

All in all a really easy build which took only an afternoon to complete and cost next to nothing to make. There are more pics here on my blog: wargamesdesigns.com/ecw-blog

Nice!

Very nicely done.

Excellent work!

Superb!

Thanks guys, the feedback is very much appreciated, I will post some more pics of the growing ECW collection of buildings very soon!

Those are great. Any particular source for your stone work files?

The stonework paper I created myself using Microsoft Paint and sample photo's of actual stonework I found on the internet. The rooftile & thatch paper files were purchased from Wargames Vault and were really cheap. I am however currently working on my own versions of rooftiles & thatch from photo's I have downloaded from the internet.