From MichaelA: No Place Like Home (25 points)

Just the briefest of posts to showcase a couple of dwellings, planned for a Tatooine inspired Star Wars: Legion Board. These were from 'TTCombat' and were a simple cost effective solution to setting the scene. Having put them together in no time at all, I was curious to see if they could be enhanced to disguise the angular, rather boxy look? Wet strength tissue paper and PVA was used to seal the dome with the addition of some ‘eroded’ blue Styrofoam supports around the base. This was all given a coat of All Purpose Filler. On reflection I probably used too much on the first building and reigned that back a bit on the second attempt, striving for a crude, Adobe wall like effect.

Original kit assembled

Once dried additional sand texture was added along with some A/C Greebles from ‘Combatzone Scenery’ with the coiled wire and bulkhead lights coming from ‘Zinge Industries’. The whole piece was then given a diluted PVA glue protective coat. Painting just saw them primed in a suitable sand like colour, washed with Agrax Eathshasde and then dry brushed.

Added details

From start to finish, this was a refreshingly quick build, which went much as I had hoped. I had everything crossed when I gave them a spray coat of matt varnish as this has eaten into the blue foam before, but the protective PVA layer seemed to hold and all was well. With a couple of hovels under my belt and some new techniques secured, I am hoping to progress to a slightly more challenging build next.

As for points, stacked one on top of the other they come to 6" x 6" x 8" so comfortably through one terrain cube, shall we shall 25 points? 

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Simply superb Michael!!

I love how you made the hard angular shape of the original MDF models into the much more organic designs from the Star Wars films. The inclusion of the wiring and tech bits is truly inspired and really is evocative of those scenes in Tunisia Tatooine. Love the first shot of Luke's landspeeder and the droids. Now, we just need to see Aunt Beru out with a glass of blue milk and a plate of cookies and the scene would be fully set. :)