Painting Buildings

by **Undave** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:03 pm

Both kits slot together quite well so you can assemble most of it without glue to be going on with and then come back to painting when you have time. I've glued the roof sections, as you don't really need brush access to the insides of these, and assembled easily removable three or four section "chunks" of wall. Now I can break either building down into a paintable state but it holds together well enough for transport and gaming.

by **Smokeouse** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:00 pm

Re: Painting Buildings
by ZombiEd » Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:30 am

Smokeouse, I'm curious as to how much you painted before you assembled the buildings. It looks like it would be a lot easier to paint first, then assemble.

Hi Ed,

I actually received the buildings pre-built from Warlord, the only piece that I 'dismantled' for painting was the roof on the Storehouse (so that I could get in afterwards with the scalpel to remove the roof cut out sections).

Regards

Smokeouse

by **ZombiEd** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:19 am

OK, I think I will assemble the walls but won't glue them to the base until painted. I can then paint all the wall sections without worrying about ruining the floor or vice versa.

by **Klingsor** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:14 pm

I made a start on mine this evening after spending the afternoon assembling some of the SF laser cut buildings from Sarissa. So far so good. The only problem is as ever of my own making, I don't want the holes in the wall so I have been trying to fill the cuts around them with PVA, trying both thick and thin to see how it goes, as a result work has ground to a halt. I will see how well, or not, it was worked tomorrow.

by **johnm** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:57 am

Going slightly off topic, a friend of mine is assembling my building for me, he scratch builds his own buildings, is is using the WG buildings as 'plans' for this 20mm Rorkes Drift buildings lol

by **Klingsor** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:18 am

I am not surprised at all. I could well seem myself doing something similar, not copying them exactly but making other buildings in the same style to match them. Perfect for colonial actions well into the 20th century and beyond - I was given the DVD of the series Heat of the Sun for Christmas and it seems spot on for this sort of thing, I can watch it again and call it research. Which reminds me of the chap I met, a retired teacher who had been a lieutenant in the KAR and then, in the CCF had Tim Collins as a cadet.

I suppose the same style would do for Australia too, possibly even India and the other colonies as well. Maybe not New Zealand though, that strikes me as a place where you need a good waterproof roof, a bit like here but with more interesting fauna - if you like birds, bats and bugs. Australia seems interesting, you have the Russian invasion scare that led to the construction of some coastal defence batteries, seeing one in Mission Impossible II is pretty much the height of the film but could make for a very different alternative history game. Perhaps more rationally there is always Ned Kelly.

I am slightly embarrassed to admit that if I ever get the buildings finished they will probably first see service with Warmachine. Which has had the interesting side effect of suggesting a deserty camouflage scheme for the warjacks and may revive my ambition to build a river steamer for the tabletop. The stern wheel is the tricky bit but now I think I could get one laser cut which brings us nicely round to the beginning again. I have to be careful with that sort of thing, my father is a retired marine engineer who will pick up on any errors, he pointed out that some barges I made lacked the 'starved whale' effect of the plates over the frames which turned a quick and dirty project into a bit of a farce.

by **Undave** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:30 am

Klingsor wrote:I made a start on mine this evening after spending the afternoon assembling some of the SF laser cut buildings from Sarissa. So far so good. The only problem is as ever of my own making, I don't want the holes in the wall so I have been trying to fill the cuts around them with PVA, trying both thick and thin to see how it goes, as a result work has ground to a halt. I will see how well, or not, it was worked tomorrow.

Oddly enough you might find the best thing to fill the cracks in the walls to be the smooth on filler you use to fill real cracks in real walls. A small tub of ready mixed filler won't cost you much and it also works very well for texturing bases. It makes pretty convincing snow too. I love the stuff.

by **Klingsor** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:48 pm

A good idea. The PVA was mostly to make sure the removable pieces stayed put, some sort of filler will certainly be needed afterwards.

The thing has stalled again. I got started and then decided that painting them before assembly would be a jolly good idea. A very busy time but next week looks clearer so I should get them prepped.

by **mudcow304** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:06 pm

I assembled them before painting. There is still reasonably good access with a brush etc. However if you paint then assemble then the filler will have cracks in all the corners. Granted a lot of corners would be cracked in real life but I'm not sure how visible it would be to scale so would rather keep the cracks small (except round the removable bits). I'm hoping to get some time to progress mine soon, once I get settled back in the UK and have some time to paint!

by **Megawombat** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:28 am

Over the next week I'll do a guide for the barricades, mealy bags, carts, out buildings, kraals and all the other assorted gubbins that comes with the Horns of the Buffalo set.

Smokehouse,

Have you posted this yet? You building guide was very useful and I would like to have you advice on painting the rest...

Thank-you

David

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