MgeELEN G WARHAMMER FANTASY TOWN HOUSE BY DAVE ANDREWS AND PHIL LEWIS from last month's Fantasy Cottage article, Phil and Dave demonstrate how to make ilding for your Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and Epic battles. This month they'll be showing you how to build a town house for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. If you're an inexperienced modeller and you want some help with any of the techniques described, or if you want to know where to get hold of the tools and materials you'll need, call in to you local Games Workshop store and they'll be more than happy to advise you. STAGE 1— USING THE TEMPLATES ee toni yu oun with ing pe nd ‘The first stage of making the town house is to transfer the Prick! through ‘marked points with a pin, Carefully cune of the building otto your foum card, Photocopy the Bee doe ae if yam daw Has bawemn he hoes in templates you'll find Inver in hs article, You'll have ta sake foam card, you should have a copy of the town sarin ecop claneoliemapace ce ieios wt Bp ‘nthe template page to ee which ones youhave tcopy more Finally, cut the building plans out using your steel ruler and a ‘than once. ee ‘modelling knife ~ remember to cut away from your fingers.‘TOOLS AND MATERIALS ‘You'll need foam board ~ « foam sandwich with thin card on the outside. We've found the Smm card is the ‘most useful and works well in almost all modelling situations, Foam card is available from art shops or graphic suppliers at around £6.00 for an 800mm x 1,000mm sheet — you'll be able to make at least 8 small ‘buildings with this size. ‘You can use thick cardboard instead of foam card but foam card's big advantage is the ease with which you ‘can cut it, There's a temptation to use too much force ‘when cutting thick card and that canbe dangerous ‘The other two main materials are thin cardboard (the ‘ard from ceeal packets i just igh?) and balsa mood {bout 1/160h of inch thick available from model shops). All-purpose flier or contour putty such as Tetion or Polyfilla ~ from a DIY shop. All-purpose glue or epoxy gel suitable for card, plastic ee en ey ‘Modelling knife with replaceable blades ~ from a DIY ‘or model shop. Sclssors, especially if you're cating thicker card. ‘Steel ruler and set square, Masking tape or cellotape, Pins for marking out the shape of the templates. Cutting surface, for example a piece of thick card or ‘hardboard ~ the main thing is 10 make sure that you don't end up digging great chunks out of your dining rom table. STAGE 2~ ASSEMBLING THE HOUSE When ihe main pars ae cat ou, lu hem together as sown inthe diagram. Glue the four walle onto aba of fanly tc Gtrd, ensuring a medium sized overlap all around the Balding: Note that the side wallet nsde the ead walls Wile you're waiting forte give to set onthe building ite, if the roof can be assembled. If you want it to be Attched to your town house, it can be simply glued into Blece If however, you waa it to be removable «couple of ‘small wiangular supports can be traced onto foam card using the templates from the end walls, cut out and glued to the inside ofthe roof about 25mm from each end. STAGE 3 -TIMBERING Although the timbering effect looks difficult itis, in fact {arly simple. Cut the balsa wood into stip abo Sanh wide and eu them tothe comoct length. Now glue ihe i lice with malt-parpore give. The nest sop isthe cemmeyy Tis it cat out of 10mm balsa wood or 2 pss of fom bowel stick toot ‘Adi a chimney pt with square of card and a short length of plastic pipeFANTASY TOWN HOUSE Eclat i Ty es eee tt tet Saeeeiee ge ae tant parte te to 2. lightly longer feore em down te mil, ben hen inhale sek spelen tescernests Sas For an altemative ridge, like that on our model, you can use a stip of plas card which has had small sealope filed out of ‘it using a halfround fle. This gives a more decorative effect to the balding The ends heve bow fused of wi soll card “diamonds. STAGES ~DETAILS ‘The door is simply made by sticking two card. hhandle directly onto the foam card walls. The provides the door frame. A doorstep can be added from caf, ‘r balsa wood and window sills can be made to protute slighty if you wish by cutting the bal wood wider tnd rounding off the comers. You can make a chimney pot font square of card and a short length of pipe. Give the chimney and walls a thin wash of wstered down, Polyilla and leave to dy thoroughly. Add small eres of ‘moss to hide any gaps. Use PVA glue for this ts it can Se ‘watered down ~ spread it thinly with an old brush before yor. sprinkle the sand on. Tiles can be given an aged look by cutting comers off or ‘coring them to represent chips and cracks while others can be Jeftout altogether. Rearview of houte showing separa of Inst shows alerting ‘age assembly. SAFETY FIRST It's worth reminding you that modelling tools can be dangerous if they're used carelessly. Remember, they're sharp and they cut ~ and it's so much easier to make ‘hese buildings if you've stil got finger ‘Do most important safety rule is: muke all cuts ray from: your fingers. I’ algo much safer to eut trough a sheet of card with several lighter strokes than with one hheavy stroke; you're far more likely to slip when ‘resting too hard so you'l find that you actully get a ‘ange straighter cut with lighter suokes. Always use 4 new sharp blade ~ sharp blades are a Jot. less dangerous than old blunt blades which you have to ress very hard io cur through anything. Dow onl vino ola STAGE 6~THE BASE The ae may re bnmed eva wt menone exo tered och Your moder Yo can enhance yon Sullding greatly by ang paring stones cut fom thn ead oc toring snd wrens mc or pus fliwg the fae rocedre explana a Sige 3 STAGE 7 - FINISHING OFF Ir you with, you can now consider your town houte fished and ready 6 pun, bla couple of ick exe sages ere eat Ip disguise my aight erom you've made and add tha final spec veh A thin wash of Plyfila or Tetrion painted onto the panes of the Building ive «mes textured lok and hide the elt dees of foam card that may be visible mn one or two places Useran old brah (ie 2 of 3) and Un the file down wi water until you get the right consistency (abot the sre as Sonic pun}, STAGE § - PAINTING ‘As withthe Citadel Minature that you punt the fst thing to give the building an undercoat A white or light grey colour i eal, sprayed on sparingly with an aerosol Using «Jargith brush (ze 2 o 3 shoud be sfficien) make surtach fne n wore woos ew mck furpls pai over he beng. You need f past he panle St pa yellows hgigh fit elie wee (Carfllypait al the timberng including the windows and door frames, date brown with light pe deybruch we 8 size Gor bt fortis Remember when drybruhing to make sure you take as mach pan off th brush ts you cin otherwise you're lye gt ery streaky fishes. Don't worry about ving the Bulg nore then one dys fnscieny youll st fet netr fish this Way and you'll be lee ely to ge Pant ono the panel (FANTASY TOWN HOUSE WHEN YOUVE CUT THESE OUT, YOULL HAVE S WALL TEMPLATES, 2 ROOF TEMPLATES AND 3 (CHIMNEY TEMPLATES. ‘Nota the front wall template YL ‘sswperinpoted onthe / back wall Don't ext 2 hale ou of the back FRONT WALL (x2) Sean SIDE WALL (x2) Copyright €1990 Games Workshop Lid. All rights reserved. sire the imwession of shad, spple your chosen col Sin sach punch padully fading to be ces of te er farround. Te windows should be black si «dark bles Bog ‘The east way t pst the root is to use a 12" or 1" wedge Trash The acceso dtr fom te base of tne root fo the ge, The rot snd chimney potas bert pamted i bey ats bus colowy, dybrshy with ple Soe. Grace and mots canbe sted witha relatively dll green Bate cont (euch an mig of Woodland Green and ee Ghaoe Blast) and then highlight wit successively lighter ens sch oy Cobian Grek a Blows Green weld ght Bens or yout prs ml ook tau Al the Games Workshop stores are becoming involved with ray anpet often bling, wif you noed some avis ce Information on where to get maori or you jst Want i hae sear about making fran, Gon’ ena cop oe [Be them ecall= they bs onlin plese hap Happy modelling.