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Against all the odds there has actually been a bit more progress on my little 15mm township. Based on past performance this post is several years ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

The majority of the buildings that I’m planning to use will come from either our\u00a0Desert Dwellings<\/a>\u00a0or Desert Domes<\/a> ranges. However I thought that it would be interesting to see how easily buildings from our other ranges could be made to fit into the town as well.<\/p>\n

The first one that I chose is the Large Garage<\/a> from our Advanced Buildings – because I like it the best.<\/p>\n

As the surface of the garage is quite smooth with rounded corners I wasn’t sure that my approach of using a variety of washes to paint it would work that well. So before anything else it got a spray of textured paint to add a bit more detail to the surface. The paint in question was just something that I found in a local shop. It’s from the Stone<\/a> range from makeityours.co.uk.<\/p>\n

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Apparently it gives the “natural look and feel of stone”. I’m not too sure about that but it does give a nice splattered look to the model rather the normal gritty finish of similar sprays.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the model was mostly bits and bobs from different ranges. The walls are from the 6mm Desert Buildings<\/a> with part of a JumpGate<\/a> used as the arch. The two storage containers are tanker wagons<\/a> from the 6mm monorail sets.<\/p>\n

So all in all I’m happy with the results – it fits in nicely with the other buildings. And it didn’t actually take very long – a little over a day from start to finish (again very unusual for me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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