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With my Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a> hat on, I recently put together a number of smallish towns and villages for the club’s 2016 show game, The Road to Homs ’82<\/a>. Having been asked in the past for painting guides for our Small Scale Scenery<\/a> range, I thought I’d go through the steps I took in making the scenery. I’d been given a brief by Paul, who was making the rest of the game, which included the number of built-up areas he needed along with their size and the positions of any roads. I drew these out on 40thou (1mm) plastic card and marked off the roads. Each block was also numbered to correspond to his plan so that laying the terrain out at a show was straighforward.<\/p>\n

I cast up a large number of buildings, mostly from the Middle-Eastern village<\/a> set, but also mixing a few buildings from the Mediterranean<\/a> and Roman building<\/a> packs, even a couple of barns from the Normandy pack, plus of course some Mosques<\/a>. The largest town was mostly left empty as I wanted to add a number of apartment blocks which at this point hadn’t even been moulded ! After cleaning up any mould lines, I started by spraying all of these in Army Painter Bone – in fact this was unnecessary as I ended up spraying them again, so you can ignore this step ….<\/p>\n