{"id":966,"date":"2012-07-24T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2012-08-08T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:39:12","slug":"sf-desert-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/sf-desert-township\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Desert Township"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve started out on a project to build a 15mm township from our desert buildings<\/a> range (we finally have enough spare castings to let me do this – we’ve been selling them as fast as Phil makes them !). At Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a> we seem to have settled on a near-future, terraformed Mars as the setting for our 6mm\/15mm\/starship games, using the Modified Mars<\/a> site as a guide.<\/p>\n

I haven’t named my little township yet – since I’ve been fielding German ONESS forces in our two campaigns so far, I’ll probably stick to that and come up with a suitably Germanic moniker for it.<\/p>\n

Having picked out the models I needed (one of each of the ten models that we make, with duplicates of the three smallest houses) I ran the bottom of each model over a sheet of coarse glasspaper to smooth it off and flatten any irregularities (do this in a ventilated place, preferably outdoors, and don’t breath in any of the resulting dust – wear a mask if necessary).<\/p>\n

The next stage, as with all resin models, is to give them a good wash in soap and water – washing-up liquid (dish soap) is fine – this removes the dust from the previous sanding, and also cleans off any residues from the casting process. I just chucked the lot in the washing-up bowl with lots of hot soapy water and gave them a scrub with an old brush, then sat them on some newspaper to dry off.<\/p>\n

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I’ll try to give a blow-by-blow breakdown of the whole process of making the township, including painting, basing, detailing etc. I tend to be fairly erratic and have bursts of activity followed by periods of nothing happening, so you might need to be patient …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve started out on a project to build a 15mm township from our desert buildings range (we finally have enough spare castings to let me do this – we’ve been selling them as fast as Phil makes them !). 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