25/28mm Things From the Basement - Livestock Buildings

Great set from Thing From the Basement! My trials and tribulations are detailed below,

I screwed up the priming twice! For the fencing, I mixed up some dark brown paint and Gesso and brush-primed them before spraying with a light brown primer.  It looked good at first but I found it repelled portions of the washes I put on. It was irregular enough that I leaned into it and I tried to drybush grays and tans over to age it up a bit. Some lengths are better than others - the gate among the worst.

 

For the buildings themselves, I managed to put a thick gritty dust over everything with the priming. I brushed the worst of it off to middling effect. This is most seen on the outhouse, but also on the pig sty to a lesser extent. Hen house came out fine.

I'm happy with the basing on everything but I used UV activated resin in the horse trough and it seemed smooth and fine until I hit it with the light. At that point a bunch of bubbles appeared on the right side. By then the top was rock hard! I may very well have made it too deep and should have set it in two layers for more control. I can live with it I guess; on the table it will get little notice.

I'm also happy with the state of the pig sty - at least at pig pens I have seen they are totally littered with straw which I successfully modeled here. I own 25mm pigs; none are painted.

That grit is gritty!

Here's some 25mm Wars of Ozz figures so you can get a sense of the size. I will likely use these livestock buildings for Napoleonics, both Russia and Spain, and probably New England too.

All and all, there is a learning curve in prepping laser cut stuff. The pig sty base did warp a bit and I flipped it over and white glued the bottom to put a counter pull on it. On a cloth mat it sits level but there it's still not flat. The glue for the static grass and tufts on the fencing, I think, will not affect them but they are not 100% cured yet. For now, I'm skittish about trying to build bigger laser cut buildings.

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