Halfway there;

 Whooooaaa It's halfway there      

whoooaaa-ooh, terrain on a prayer!

Glue gun in hand, it'll stick I swear,

whooaa-oh! terrain on a prayer! 

Quar House Progress 

Good progress of the Quar house / barn, my first time ever scratch building anything.  

Let's rapid fire pics to get through the assorted bits quickly in order to get to the big payoff.

First, create a little staircase out of foam:

tadaa!

then for the roof, cutout two triangles out of foam that will make the upper portion house.  Cover these with planks made out of coffee stirs to create a wooden effect.

Protip, when you cut the first triangle out of foam you can just slice that triangle in half,
so the you'll have two the exact same. 

For the actual roof, I used a jig also bought form shifting lands.

the idea being that it helps you cut consistent shingle shapes like so...

and after repeating the process several, several, SEVERAL times you have enough shingle strips to glue on appropriately size roof sheets..

little roof

Big roof

I decided that it'll be easier to paint if all put together.  But before that I had to cover the windows so that they wouldn't just look inside the ugly interior.  I took some plastic from a blister and some card tock and layered them inside.  The plastic down first and then the card stock, to create a glass effect and light coming from inside...

not the best picture.  Here is the inside

and the outside.  
still not the best picture and I'm not sure that makes the effect.
But it gets the job done.

Now it's time to glue all the separate pieces together...

All the separate pieces laid out.  

using a hot glue gun on the low setting, I glued it all together.  

 Somehow somewhere along the way I mis-measured,
as I didn't plan for the ramp to butt up right against the house.
I thought there would be some space in between.

it's pretty big.  I did not appreciate how big until I saw it all together. 

For a reference, here it is next to the Sarissa MDF barn..

Since 28mm buildings aren't in scale anyway, I don't think the larger house will be an issue other than the large footprint on the table.  Though the whole point of the terrain is that it's sits in the corner and looks pretty.  But there it is, in all of its scratch build glory.  

This gives me about 2 weeks to paint the thing.  Should be good as long as I don't waste any time.

Time Wasters:

The kids went back to school.  It's glorious.  but they brought back with them germs.  And of course, the sickness has transferred to me.  Got all the symptoms. 

The other big-time waster is our newfound video game addiction 

My son is big into Minecraft, and I thought that I would try it out just to see what it was and have an understanding of what it is, and now I'm all into it too.  It's a nice way to spend time together.  But there have been a few nights where after he goes to bed...and I still play it.  I have history with video games.  There was a time when I could play Word of Warcraft OR finish my dissertation for grad school....but not both.  

Not Time Waster

I went over to my friend's Mr. PC professional wargaming shed for a game of Dead Man's Hand.

Table set up

Game play picture.

I really liked the game of Dead Man's Hand.  It's got good play and easy mechanics.  Which is good because I have a whole pile of terrain for it around here.... somewhere. 

Extra Credit

I finished the extra credit assignment that I gave myself.  

Tadaa!

28mm 

Just a fancy cup holder really.  A place to put in game resource tokens.  

Thanks for reading.

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Till Next time.