Attack of the Wonder Material!!

ARGGG, the hand is back! keep a lookout...

    So that answers my last question, cardboard buildings it is! Having idly drawn some designs on the backing of some old exercise books (made of cardboard), within short order I had put together some rather nice 15mm dwellings.

My first attempt, nice and simple. The windows and doors were stuck on and each wall was cut individually

    The results are astounding.  The white thing was the work of one, maybe two, hours. Maximum. Really I used it to test out the idea, experimenting with the roof (which wasn't so great) and the details like windows (which worked out well I think). I also needed to test out the painting system as I currently only have four pots of paint, black, white, brown and beige (or brown and brown).

    Pleased with a simple model I then proceeded with something more ambitious....

Mk 2

    A vast improvement for which I added open windows, a nicer beige finish and a properly painted roof.

Some added intrest out the back

The inherent advantage of using the cardboard this way is that you get a nice hollow middle for putting models in....

    I also experimented with cutting the walls out in one long piece which meant I could get all or the windows at the same height and was incredibly convenient. I decided on adding a shed-dy bit around the back to make the building more interesting.

   A good experiment I think, and one that has left me with some nice terrain to use in the future. I will do another post later on the actual method but it is not that tricky.