Zulu Wars Mission Station Part II

Finished off the other Mission Station building - a storeroom - some dry stone walls (ably made by my 10 year old daughter from air-dry modelling clay and aquarium gravel), and some scratchbuilt barricade sections.

The defenders make ready by the storeroom...

The back of the storeroom

Storeroom on the left, hospital on the right and barricades (sculpted from modelling clay) in front.

Zulu Wars Mission Station

My main Easter project was finishing the first of two 28mm buildings for a colonial skirmish siege game based on the Rorke's Drift experience - in essence replacing my existing scenery with something that looks the part.  In this I was inspired by the building plans at Paul's site here. 

The Hospital building with officer Michael Caine of the 24th Foot...

Loosely based on the hospital building at Rorke's Drift, I've made this one smaller but still big enough to fit figures inside.  The base is a sheet of 80mm plasticard.  Walls are foamcard, with balsa for the veranda supports, cardstock doors and shutters and matchsticks for the window detailing.  The foamcard was sealed with a 50/50 mixture of ready-mixed filler and PVA glue before painting in emulsion and acrylics and gloss varnished.  The roof was also foamcard and cardstock, the thatch once again made from cheap brown towelling, soaked in diluted PVA glue, drybrushed and then gloss-varnished (not so much to make it glossy as to make it rigid).

I plan to make another small storeroom and then turn my hand to sections of barricade and dry stone wall.

Although I added multiple doors, I went for just 4 internal rooms

The floor is plasticard, sealed in PVA/filler, painted and varnished

The building before sealing with glue/filler

I laid robust cardboard formers across the foamcard as the base for the towelling thatch