Step one was to cut the top of it off. I want to be able to go inside the buildings in my town, so a removable roof is key. Once I have cut the roof out, I flipped the now hollow wall structure over, so that I had a nice neat edge at the top. By adding some joists from spare MDF rod, I have the bones of the structure. The whole structure was glued down onto a 3mm MDF board to help give the walls structure, making up for removing the roof piece from the box.
The roof required a bit of trimming to make it fit neatly, and importantly, be able to be removed easily. I added a air conditioning unit from Laser Cut Card (get yours here) to both give the roof some variety, and to also give me something to grab on to when I want to remove the roof.
Next step was to do some detailing. First step was obviously windows and doors, which I cut using my trusty scalpel (with a fresh, sharp blade) and my equally trusty metal ruler. I added some internal walls using 3mm MDF, to create a small back room in the building. Once the MDF was cut to the same size as the building, the last job was to use some permafill to smooth the joins between the MDF and the cardboard.
And this is how it looks so far:
Rear of the building, showing the Laser Cut Card ladder (you have to be able to access the air-con unit somehow!)
So that is as far as it has gotten so far on the building. I have already worked out what it will be, and will be astounded if you guess right!
But wait, that is not all for today, I also finished Zomb-Annie yesterday, and couldn't wait to share her with you! You will recall that she is a mismatch of parts between the Wargames Factory Survivor Women box and the Wargames Factory Zombie Vixens box. I think she has come out very well!
A hard knock life indeed!
Back Friday for the next survivor,
Chris
Your building has a double thubs up from me, it's excellent, simple but effective, as a quick guess I'm saying it's some sort of takeaway.
ReplyDeleteZombie Annie is a great hit too with me (serves the little precotious brat right too).
Not a takeaway shop- but I am definitely going to have to make one of those now that you have mentioned it!
DeleteGlad you like them- blogs like yours are a constant source of encouragement for me while working through!
And Zomb-Annie has come out better than I had planned. I am really happy with how she has come out!
Your building is looking good so far. I'm not even going to try to guess what it might be yet as there are just far too many possibilities.
ReplyDeleteGreat paint job on Zombie-Annie. I could have a lot of fun thinking up so many ways to kill her!
True- It will be a specific building when the fit out is done, and it will truly be something to loot!
DeleteGlad you like Zomb-Annie, I am really happy with her too!
Nice building dude! Love the aircon detail and the ladder. Is it a guns and ammo type establishment. Someone put a bullet in that creepy singing kid zombie!
ReplyDeleteCloser, but not quite. Every small town does need a guns and ammo store, so one is definitely on the cards.
DeleteAnd as for Zomb-Annie... creepy is right :)
really like the building. I am looking forward to seeing the completed project. Zomb-annie looks great and I, too, look forward to seeing how you manage to bump her off!
ReplyDeleteThe building has gone better than planned- which is always nice with these things! This will be the first of the buildings for my town, with more to follow. Unless it looks horrible. Then I may give up and cry in the corner.
DeleteZomb-Annie will always come back. She is just that annoying.....
Really nice start on the house and i love the aircon unit :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have been looking through your blog to pilfer as many ideas as possible. Hopefully you like the finished product even more!
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