Flames of War Stuff

I have been working on FOW Germans and Russians last year and need to continue to work on them. My cossaks are like halfway done. These are some tanks I will post more in the coming week. They are a mix of Old Glory and Battlefront Miniatures.

My germans are modeled after the 2nd SS Panzer Division.

Two Kompanies of PZIVs and a couple of stugs in the back



Several Kompanies of PZIIIs



Here we have a Ferdinand a couple of Tigers and Two Panthers as well as some support vehicles.

Wip Laundry/Restaurant

I have been working on this and am waiting for the RC store to restock it's balsa wood. I tried to give the building a Chinese look without going to far. I think it will fit in well with the rest of the town. You don't really see all of the detail but I put lots of cuts on it to make it more interesting.

What do y'all think so far? It will look much nicer once I paint it up. I even found a sight for chinese caligraphy but I'm not sure how much will fit.

New commers to Cerro Grande

Some foreign folk have arrived at Cerro Grande and are amidst construction of their new business. Here tell it's gonna be a laundry and restaurant. You kin keep lookin here fer some fotographs when they finish.

Unfortunately the RC store that carries the balsa would was out when I went so the building has three walls and no roof. I'm going to see if I can cobble together a fourth wall with the off cuts that I have. Gotta love Elmers PVA glue.

Cerro Grande gets a Livery Stable

Howdy y'all. I just got finished with the Stable last night after adding signage and trim paint. I want to add a cross arm, pulley, and rope for the hay loft. I may also put together some hay bails, loose wheels and other bits for stuff just laying around. Good hiding places for gunmen.



This build used a ton of balsa as it was like building conjoined houses. At first I was a bit dismayed. I had initially just eyeballed a cut using visual estimating. As I sat and stared at the cut I wasn't all too happy with the estimation. I went back to the drawing board, literally.

I used the template from the old Foundry file which I believe is available in their RWNN. I find that their buildings are too small for me and my 28-30mm figures so I end up upscaling everything. Once I measured their drawing I made my own just bigger and once I was happy with that I went to town on the balsa. I also made the mistake of gluing the walls together before finishing all the doors.

This mistake affected the build since the wood broke in once place, easy repair, and in another when I did finally mount the door it was off kilter. I also tried something new by using more cereal card I made cross members for all the doors. I glued them on with the printed side out.

The longest part to the build was cutting the strip shingles but I was watching a movie, well more like listening to it.

What's next for the town? I need to order some minis. I plan on adding a gun shop, a chinese restaurant or laundry, an adobe house, out house and some other bits.

New Building for Cerro Grande

It's been a while since I posted, I was on Christmas holiday, however I am still working on things. I have my Livery Stable well underway. I just need to paint it and add a few knick nacks. I will update this post when I get it finished and take some fotos.

Spruced up the Saloon

Minor update to the Saloon. I added a covered porch to the building as well as additional signage to advertise what they have for sale. I used scraps of balsa to make the board walk and just scored them like the plank walls. I also added additional supports and cross beams to add to structural strength as well as visual interest. I also added strip shingles for the mini roof and then had to cut them individually for the last run. I hade tried to use the same technique for the sign as I did for the planking but found it would be better to to do this after painting the sign and ended up just hand painting it.

Sheriffs Office

I was able to finish my Sheriffs Office today. It was a rather easy build as compared to the other buildings. I kept it a more simple place four walls and a flat roof. I used my wall templates like normal but I just made the front wall one inch taller than the back wall.

For the sloping side walls I just started with the height of the front wall and drew a line to the height of the back wall. Pretty simple eh? Unfortunately I broke off the tip of one of the side walls but that ended up not being a real problem as I just reattached it with pva glue and finished trimming it.

I also wanted to give it a different look than the rest of the town buildings so I scribed parts of the side and rear walls to resemble brick work. I then coated these walls with light weight spakle leaving the brick work exposed. This way it looks like part of the stucco came off to expose it.

I used round tooth picks for the window bars for the back of the jail. For the roof i used more card stock for a plain style roof. When I painted this, I primed black as usual and then painted the brick work and bars first. I put 3 coats of white for the stucco and dry brushed a little white on the bricks so they would stand out. I again painted over the printed Sheriff and glued this onto more card stock before attaching to the building. Finally cut out and glued on wanted posters.

Fairly easy project that only took a couple days.



Front of the Sheriffs Office.



Criminals side.