Jenny's Wargamer Scenery Plus

Okay by now you will have realised that my models are not pristine like the ones built and photographed in the White Dwarf.

So what. Personal Opinion Here: I think a building should look lived in and a bit dirty. Have you watched films about medieval times. Ugh. they were not clean, there was horse, cow, pig**** and guts on the ground never mind what the humans left. Tarmac roads did not exist and not a lot of cobbled ones either.

So..... I try to piant my buildings as if they were real places. Got to admit it does not always work, some of them just look !!!!!!! unmentionable. They still get used in games though. (Fills up a space.)

Enjoy the pics and my tips, even if they are not organised and numbered. More fun to search for the info..

The two story house has balsa wood and the one story building has the laminated cardboard wood. I also used watered down polyfilla or equivalent on the panels(Buy what you can afford). This gives the look of plaster or wattle and daub. (Hey look it up in the dictionary, I don't have a lot of room here)

This half timbered building is made with cereal packets, the windows have wire mesh to make them look like 16th Century glass windows.

Grant you this type of building would probably only have shutters. Glass was for the "well-to-do people.

Scenery for Necromunda

Graveyard

Graveyards are fun. You can be as creepy as you like.

Love graveyards.

Ruined building suitable for 40k plus

All the buildings are made from cereal packets and polystyrene packaging. If you don't have access or can't afford foam board etc there are definitly alternates out there.

See the Castle to the right. >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Chapel

To get ideas for scenery look at buildings when you are down-town.

Don't walk into the lamp post.

Yep you've guessed right, I have.

Ignore the comments and the funny looks.

They are not on a quest....

BETTER BUIlDINGS and LANDSCAPES.

Yep again. I am a bit of an anorak as far as scenery is concered.

Don't know anywhere near it all though. Still learning, even at my wizened age.

Tudor buildings are a pain. The wood is annoying (that's the polite version) For the wood you can use either balsa wood and shape it or if you can't afford it (not all of us can) you can laminate strips of cereal packet together and then shape that. Takes about 6 layers to get a decent thickness. I like hanky box cardboard for this.

Tudor House

Don't make the filler too thick or watery. experiment but remember you have to paint it afterwards.

Even if you use cheap brushes you don't want to damage them too much with very rough surfaces. Don't use your best brushes for scenery building.

Front: -AEL Mining

In AEL Mining the wood effect is strips of cardboard. They were used both horizonally and vertically to create different effects.

Back: AEL Mining Company

Alternate veiw of Necromunda Scenery

Gun emplacement

Back of ruined building

The castle above is made from:Stackers Tubes, Cereal Packets, Glue, Polystyrene Packaging from a washing machine, Matchsticks and a lot of boring but great fun work. Roof tiles are a pain and making 20 or more arched doorways can last a loonnnnnnnnnggggggg time.

By the time I had finished my fingers were dripping glue and the nerves were worn to a frazzle. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Floor plan used as basis for castle above

Graveyard design for Higher Art Project

Detail for the gateway of the graveyard above

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