Scratchbuilding

Having painted loads of resin buildings I decided to try scratch-building some of my own.  The walls of the building are made from foamcore stuck together with a hot glue gun.

I covered the entire building with a coat of watered down PVA glue mixed with filler.  I coated the outside walls with sand.

Then I glued on some wooden supports where the second story floors will go.

More texturing with sand, model  railway ballast and cut up coffee stirrers.

Lintels from plasticard, more texturing  with filler.

Floors are made from strips of wood cut from coffee stirrers and glued onto thin card.

Painted, inked and dry-brushed.

Almost finished and just waiting for the finishing touches, shutters mostly.  If there’s one thing that says Normandy to me it’s the light grey shutters on  most of the buildings.

Finished and ready to use.