28mm WW2 houses.

After our game had finished on Sunday,Paul and Dave had a conversation on the size of houses,and how difficult it was,due to the "footprint" of houses on the wargames table,to represent them properly,and for them to look in scale,and of course,to fit figures into them!!
Me,being Me,decided to do something about it!! I made a template,from cardboard,fiddled about with sizes etc. and developed a minimum sized house,to fit our existing bases.

This is the template-and armed with a Stanley knife,some white foam board,pen and ruler,I set to work making some houses.The first one took me 20 minutes!-as it looked okay,I set to and made a further four(one of them was a two storey one!!)

The buildings took no more than two hours to make,but the painting took a lot longer,because the foam board is plastic- coated and didn't want to be painted!!!-I used the ready-mixed paint from Tesco for the job,and after 3 coats,I'd had enough and called it a day.

These are two of the carcasses-I have "damaged" the walls to simulate shot and shell,and did the same for the roofs,which are removable,to facilitate putting the infantry bases into the houses-who's a clever boy then??

Almost complete-I decided to add a bit of "flock" just to finish them off.......

Flock added,and paint all dry-time to take them out for a photo-shoot!!

The houses look in proportion to the figures and the tank-in the first photo you can see some infantry "lurking" in the house!!

Now in position,ready for Sunday's game!!