The Town so far and the Factory
Finally! Completed the factory! Still need to paint the walls and sidewalks though.
For comparison, here's a screen shot from Band of Brothers showing the factory in the background:
BTW, the factory administration building resembles the 25th Artillery barracks in Carentan:
Here's what Carentan looks like so far. I've made a 4'x4' (120 x120cm) board out of MDF. I'm not sure I like the look of it as the grey is just a bit too overwhelming.
I think it might be better to use a grass board with cobblestone streets placed on top.
Here is the method for building the factory.
The administration building (pictured below) is made from cork. The building front, sides and rear are measured as before, and the windows and doors cut out. Plastic strips are used for all window and door frames. The roof is a textured plastic sheet from Vollmer, cut to the appropriate size and glued together.
As you can see, the walls are simply cork cut to the required shape and glued onto MDF board in which I have scored a pavement pattern with a knife.
The side shed and factory chimney are actually HO-scale German railroad accessory models. The shed is actually a locomotive shed, so it is tall enough for people in 28mm scale. But the side door on the shed is too small (HO sized) so I had to cut out a larger door for 28mm people.
Now that I have a load of houses, and a factory, I need some French shops for my town. As I already built a house on Carentan's Place de la Republique, I decide to build a couple more buildings from this famous square.
This is a view of the square after the city was captured by the US 101st Airborne in 1944. I decide to build the houses starting from "Cafe du Progres" to the "Horlogerie, Bijouterie" and "Meubles"
Here's another view of these houses:
Unfortunately in both these pics, you can't make out the full structure of the Horlogerie - Meubles house. I managed to find this picture showing a victory parade on Place de la Republique, showing quite clearly what this house looks like (on the left)
So using the technique described earlier for building the house with garden on Place de la Republique, I scratch-built these two buildings:
It will take me a bit of time to make the roof of the horlogerie-meuble house as it has five(!!) bloody dormers!!
For comparison, here's a screen shot from Band of Brothers showing the factory in the background:
BTW, the factory administration building resembles the 25th Artillery barracks in Carentan:
Here's what Carentan looks like so far. I've made a 4'x4' (120 x120cm) board out of MDF. I'm not sure I like the look of it as the grey is just a bit too overwhelming.
I think it might be better to use a grass board with cobblestone streets placed on top.
Here is the method for building the factory.
The administration building (pictured below) is made from cork. The building front, sides and rear are measured as before, and the windows and doors cut out. Plastic strips are used for all window and door frames. The roof is a textured plastic sheet from Vollmer, cut to the appropriate size and glued together.
As you can see, the walls are simply cork cut to the required shape and glued onto MDF board in which I have scored a pavement pattern with a knife.
The side shed and factory chimney are actually HO-scale German railroad accessory models. The shed is actually a locomotive shed, so it is tall enough for people in 28mm scale. But the side door on the shed is too small (HO sized) so I had to cut out a larger door for 28mm people.
Now that I have a load of houses, and a factory, I need some French shops for my town. As I already built a house on Carentan's Place de la Republique, I decide to build a couple more buildings from this famous square.
This is a view of the square after the city was captured by the US 101st Airborne in 1944. I decide to build the houses starting from "Cafe du Progres" to the "Horlogerie, Bijouterie" and "Meubles"
Here's another view of these houses:
Unfortunately in both these pics, you can't make out the full structure of the Horlogerie - Meubles house. I managed to find this picture showing a victory parade on Place de la Republique, showing quite clearly what this house looks like (on the left)
So using the technique described earlier for building the house with garden on Place de la Republique, I scratch-built these two buildings:
It will take me a bit of time to make the roof of the horlogerie-meuble house as it has five(!!) bloody dormers!!
