This place won't build itself, you know...

Finally made a start on some buildings over the weekend. My ideas for the look of the place are a combination of Mos Eisley, mixed with some of the photos I've seen of the big ship dismantling yards in India/Bangladesh. Buildings built out of, and even repaired with bits of vehicle and spaceship, all filthy, old and decrepit.

Plenty of pics to follow...

The buildings themselves are made mainly from cork floor tile. I find it's a brilliant former for buildings, as it's cheap, about 30x30cm square, 4mm thick, and breaks in a way that resembles concrete, so it's ideal for doing walls. The doors I've used so far are from Fenris, and look like the sort of bulkhead doors you'd find in a spaceship, so are ideal. I've also got a load of assorted bits and pieces from GW and other plastic kits, as well as a pile of Ramshackle Games resin pieces, which i'll be using to modify the basic building shapes to make them look more run-down. Once I've got the basic buildings done, I'll be painting them to look like the ones in the top left of the main photo, using textured spray paint, which works great at giving a good finish that inks take well to.

So, on to the basic buildings, and a quick description...

This one is a basic shop type, using Rhino doors as security window shutters. 

These are small habitation units/shops again, very simple, with small windows, African style to keep the interior cool. 

This is going to be a garage/outbuilding, or possibly a shop. The joist structure is going to be covered with parts of corrugated metal, and various vehicle platework to create a roof.

Part of the plan is to have the buildings freestanding and modular, so depending on the game, they can be put together to create a defensive, fortified structure on a large scale. This piece is effectively a connecting wall, with a staircase to allow access to the upper level.

This is a little larger, and more complicated, and is probably going to be a bar.

The most complicated build yet (although it comes apart into three pieces), and is going to be the fortified headquarters of one of the pirate groups. There are a pair of scrap-metal doors for the main entrance that I'd not put on at this stage.

This one has already been sprayed with textured paint, but not ink-washed yet. As you can see, it gives a more 'adobe' style finish, and covers up any gaps where the cork has been glued together.

This final one, has also been sprayed, but it actually a polystyrene half dome, (from Hobbycraft), that I prepainted with PVA to stop the spray paint dissolving it.

So, there you go, that's the start of the settlement, I'll put up the next lot of photos when I've finished painting and decorating them.

Enjoy!