15mm Buildings
After many
years of playing Flames of War a few months ago I decided that I needed some
15mm scale buildings. I have played on great tables both at tournaments, FLGs,
and friends places but i decided i would like to have a few for when I host
games at my place.
I looked at
buying some buildings and found the price a bit steep, and I also looked at building
some houses out of foam core. After a few attempts I just couldn’t make the
foam core work so I decided to look at other options. I have seen a few really
nice pieces of laser-cut terrain and have a bit of design experience so I though
designing some laser-cut buildings would be the way to go.
I looked at
a few online designs for inspiration, and then dove right in. There are a lot
of great resources online like this one from FunElements.com:
After seeing
a few designs I had all I needed to get started on designing a few buildings. I
decided I should design my own buildings. I wanted the buildings to be
stackable and to fit Flames of War bases.
My first
buildings were:
-
A
narrow house;
-
A
wide house; and,
-
A
rectangular house.
After that I looked at:
-
A
church;
-
A
garage;
-
An
office building; and,
-
A
large office building.
I also
designed a few extra pieces:
-
A
small bridge;
-
A
large bridge;
-
A
culvert; and,
-
Curved
road segments.
As you can
see, it proved to be a bit addictive...
While I was
designing, I also get certified to use the laser-cutter at my local library and
started burning. I took some photos of me assembling one of my buildings below.
I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
The design
is burned on an 12x24 inch sheet, using .pdf file. I create the file using a
free program called Inkscape. Then you send the file to the laser-cuter just
like if it were a printer.
Here is the
product right out of the cutter:
All you do
is punch the pieces out and glue them together; I like to use white glue because
it dries clear:
Below if a
video of all my buildings, still have a few more of the square office buildings
to assemble. Next step is to paint them..
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