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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Making Templates for the buildings.

In our recent games we had a little trouble with placing our figs in the
building/shanty templates. The roofs were a bit to angled to give
the bases a good footing so they kept sliding off. I probably should
have made the roofs removable (a major pain) or the buildings themselves
(less dioramic). My base was also pretty thick (I got some 20 sheets of this stuff for free).

So I had to come up with something to make a template base so that we could move the building bases around on. (Does all this make sense?)
Anyway, someone suggested felt, fortunately he did it via email so I could not
strangle him. (I like to think that I've left my felt terrain days way behind).
Then the other day I was at HomeDepot and found this stuff for roofs, flashing.
A real thin piece of aluminum. So here you are. If anyone has a way to cut it
without bending it all out of shape, please let me know.


Flash sheets



Painted flash sheets



Add Buildings


Add Trees




3 comments:

VolleyFireWargames said...

LOOKS GREAT - OUCH ON THE FELT THOUGH - I STILL USE IT - DO YOU KNOW WHERE I CAN GET HARVEST GOLD - GREAT FELT TEXTURE COLOR GOT TWO PIECES AND CAN'T FIND ANY MORE

VolleyFireWargames said...

MIKE
ALSO SEEING THE MARTIAN KROOT ON THE ENGLISH WEBSITE ENCOURAGED ME
DID YOU GET MY EMAIL
DAVE

Chris Kemp said...

My tin sheet bends in the same way when I cut it with tin snips. I just bend it back by hand, whack it with a plastic tent peg mallet, and press it between heavy books if it is too bad.

Kind regards, Chris.