- This topic has 26 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 5 months, 1 week ago by
.
-
Mind going all over the place tonight with odd ideas 🙂
Anyone any ideas how to make the walls of a bamboo hut in 15mm?
By this I mean the classic Asian style hut similar to the one shown here on Alamy – no brick / planks – just wattle style walls:
The only things I can come up with are to weave wire or find some wattle fencing and cut that apart (sure I’ve seen some in plastic though that may have been 28mm)…
Andrew,
not exactly to order but here’s what i did to mock up an 18th C. ‘native’ village on the Florida/Georgia coast for a mixed AWI/ Pirates (actually British landing party) game back in ’19.
Toilet roll inners; covered with imprecisely cut ‘incense’ sticks (ie the left of part once used) glued on, with a rounded roof then covered with sisal and lightly coloured w paint to even out the imperfect construction.
You can see an unfinished ‘doorway’ with coloured edges- I must have forgotten to paint the ‘opening’ black!
For scale, the man who took it…And another shot angle… the landing party sailors complete with 36pdr or whatever they had !
Not pretty but effective enough on a very large 4m x 1.75m table.
Hope it gives some inspiration, you were getting there with sushi sticks but I feel they may be a bit large!And yes, fiddly- that was a lot of individual sticks to apply, so a couple of weeks work waiting for PVA to dry, creating and texturing a village ‘base’ (I used some precut aluminium sheet I had made), then the plastic roofs with sisal, more glueing tho I recall using the hot-melt gun in later stages just to get quit of the project as time evapourated before use!
regards davew
Swinging from left to right no matter where the hobby goes!
@OotKurst
…Not pretty but effective enough on a very large 4m x 1.75m table…I think the work quite well – love the rough look roof
The incense my yoga teacher uses burns down to nothing…or scrounge from my yoga teacher when I go back as I’m sure she makes her own (or knows someone who does)!!!
Hmm, find an ethnic Indian store… I’m sure they will have the variety with fine sticks- that are AFAIK fine bamboo ! Ours import from India, cant see why yours wouldnt be as parochial about them. [Local Hindus sticks ‘religiously’ to known karma, and products… 😉 ]
>>yoga teacher … I’m too old and decrepit with bone and tendon injuries from 15 years on the ‘working’ side of the civil service… so cant bendit_like_youknowwho_ and not as limber as a lifetime practioner either!
I also recycle the ash thats left- colours my base putty/filler, scenic addition for dirt and is so fine it look realistic. A couple of gentle layers and a spot of colour if you want a different earth shade, no problems!
Of course you dont have to use them, but why not add to the atmosphere of peace and serenity…. yeah right!
-dSwinging from left to right no matter where the hobby goes!
Just come across these by Timecast:
They are not on the posts as the original picture but may do the job…Not sure on the size – IIRC Timecast where on the small size many years ago and they do not seem to be at Hammerhead (or last years Partizan) so it may be an email unless you know different?
Image of the Timecast stuff.
(TWW does not like links to non https sites, Timecast is just http, so the link does not work)
Spotted this in the news section from Butlers Printed Models the other day:
It’s not as ‘rough’ as I was looking for but looks good on the raised base (and can be built without the porch). It may be possible to add a coating (wood filler or DAS comes to mind) and scratch the reeds into it.
Anyone any experience with Butlers terrain? I’ve had very mixed results with 3D printers (as in companies that print things) on Etsy and eBay over the last couple of years and the quality they produce.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
