Some AWI

Well, one for now but I've got a few others on the go at the moment and they'll get posted as and when.

28mm of course and the client will be basing it himself.

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AWI commission

Just a couple of buildings for a regualr client. He'll be basing them himself and they are 28mm :-)

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Another AWI house

Last September I showed a little house I made on commission of a typical house for the AWI. Well, the commission is continuing with several more and here for now is the second.

I was given a fairly free reign with the designs but supplied with a couple of images to help. This one I decided to have raised up on a false basement (maybe the ground was too hard to dig into) and to have a slightly squarer footprint than the first.

The basic box, with the windows and door cut in, was made. The lower half was clad in Wills styrene sheeting and the upper half hard card slats added for the clapboard. The roof was made from my own roof tile sheets. The stairs into the house were assembled from individual blocks to help give the more random look of being home made.

Painting was fairly simple. A quick spray of off white for the clapboard, a dark tan for the stone work and a reddy brown for the tiles. There were all inked and then dry brushed in slightly lighter colours. Some weathering was applied to represent water runs in key places.

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AWI house

Just a quick one tonight as I've been really busy at my normal work and will be so for about another week.

This one is based on a previous house I made for myself a few years back but the client just wanted the house,so here we are :-)

Quite a few others to do for this commission so updates as and when they get built. It'll be a church, large house and barn and several smaller footprint buildings to allow for several villages on a large board (10x6 I think).

Forgive the Victorian officer on a Martian base but I can't find my AWI figures lol

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Painted AWI house

Well, that went quicker than I thought, and turned out rather well :-) The windows are a tad too blue but I don't think it matters too much.

Now the hiatus has abated somewhat I should be down to a few postings a week :-)

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Have chimney, will cook (and won't burn the house down)

Made the chimney this morning and placed it on the roof (best place for it really). I'll prime it grey and then work on the groundwork and hopefully get it finished on Sunday...

Most of the weekend will be spent on OSHIRO as I have a few things to catch up on and I'll probably post them here in due course.

Now for breakfast :-D

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More on the house, plus a little extra...

Well, I did quite well today (the time being 1:20 in the morning helps) and the construction of the new AWI house is done. As you can see, the doors, fences and window details are all on, all I need to do now is undercoat in grey and the sort the groundwork out and it'll be ready for painting :-)

Although, I've just realised that the chimney is missing :-/ Well, it'll give me something to do tomorrow morning before breakfast.

I've also posted photos of a house that was done a while back (again no wips) and is based on the Leinster house from the ACW but for me it'll do for AWI.

Some of the roof tiles/shingles have been lifted up a bit to give a bit more texture to the roof itself, I might do a few more but we'll see after a coat of paint because it's something that can be done afterwards as well as during the construction.

I personally like the scenic base and I think I'll be doing it to all the AWI buildings and bits that I'm going to do. it certainly adds more character and makes them less 'static', if that makes sense.

There are more photos on my Photobucket page and when I figure out how to link to it I shall do in one of the side bars.

The roof of the Lienster house is removable but the roof on the new build is stuck. No particular rhyme or reason, they just turned out this way.

The other buildings that I want to do include a barn, another larger house, a mansion (you know the sort I mean) and some sort of official town building with stonework as the main feature. I'm also going to make a blockhouse as I sold the one I already made I sold  at Salute.

For the final shot I've set up a rough beauty shot (rough being a nice way to put it), when the new build is painted I'll take them out into the garden with a terrain board or two and take some decent photos :-)

Well, that's all for now, go to go to bed :-/

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First proper posting

Well, here we have a wip of an AWI house for my (funnily enough) AWI collection. I've decided to go for a largish scenic base (I normally only make the bases just a bit larger than the building itself). Most of the other inspirational AWI buildings I've seen on the web all seem to have scenic bases for them.

It might take a couple of weeks to complete as I've got a huge load of stuff on the go, some of which will appear here but the intention is to upload with photos of what I'm doing at least twice a week... We'll see...