Colony Bar & Grill part 2

The Bar and Grill is complete I have all the paint work done on this one now. It will be a central part of many of games to come. Like many RPG games that start out with the first sentence "You all meet up in a Tavern".

The place over all.

The Bar area, plenty of room to move around.

Dining area with lots of seating.

Kitchen where wonderful gourmet meals of many kinds is created.

Plus here is a room for those who might need a little relief

Well it lots of good time will be had with lots of drinking and eating to bring many of groups together.

Oh and by the way this is Patrick, the guy who will be operating the joint.

More about him later, but he does seem to know more about things going on then most folks around here.

Up next will be a general store.

Colony's Bar & Grill Part 1

I figured that every place needs to have that local greasy spoon place or local hangout. Of course there is the old standard start to almost every RPG  game "You all meet in a tavern". This piece is going to be a very busy place.

So here are some pictures of the place so far;

Front and back,

The kitchen,

The bar,

Booths for a regular  sit down meal

Plenty  of  doorway for in and out,

These

Shipping Container Colony Part 2

In my earlier post I had the main part of the project done, I just had to finish it by adding some details and paint.

Well the painting is done and it is ready for the table now, and the looks of it I can use it for other gaming as well.

So here it is;

Thank You for taken a look, I have a few more to build in yet in different combinations, so check back and see.

Shipping Container (Update)

Okay posted sometime ago about Shipping containers made from a 36 inch 1x1 inch square wood dowels.

First I'll clean them up filing and sanding the edges removing any of the loose wood fibers.

Laying out at 1/8th inch  line pattern.

Then score the lines with a hobby knife, this cuts the wood fibers for the next step.

I then score the cut lines with a pointed object to press the wood inwards to create a panel effect into the wood.

Now I add strips of plastic stock for the frame work. The strips are 1/8th of an inch wide.

Now I layout little squares that will be the pick up points to the containers, and with a fairly small hole punch, punch holes in the center of the squares the cut the squares out and glue in place.

Next I added the doors.

A good coat of diluted wood glue again to insure nothing falls off!

Once they are all done, I will give them a good base of primer paint and then paint the containers to the colors that I want, then weathering effects will follow.

I know that they are not super detailed but, you get the idea that they are shipping containers.

This is a very cheap way to make such shipping containers and a lot of them, the only draw back is it take time to make them, If they get lost or just plain leave the table you haven't lost a lot. just make more.

Cheap shipping containers

Shipping  Containers

Everyone out there that has a Miniature company has a shipping container of one sort or another. With the cost of their models, a large area for a Post Apocalyptic world can add up in cost really fast and model train supply companies are not any cheaper by any means. Paper models can work but the draw back is they are very light and can be blown over too easy at times, don't stack well, plus they are not strong enough in my opinion to risk stacking minis on.

So I have been checking out 1x1x36 inch square wood dowel you can get one for less then $3.00 (USD) and the math is 15mm scale = 1/100 as general rule, it's not written in stone so don't blast me with comment as to it being other scales. So 1 inch in 1/100 scale would be 8 feet and 3.3 inches so a 1x1 inch square would be 8.3x8.3 foot, the average height and width of a container, so a 20 foot container would roughly be 2 and 1/2 inches long.

I should then get 14 container. So one can also get 7 containers at 5 inches equaling 40 foot containers 

That's 14 containers for about .21 cents each! Plus time to fix then up to look like containers or 7 containers for .42 cents each and again the time to make them up. Okay I only got 13 remember measure twice cut once oops!

One could make the outside of the container different due to different manufactures, or for a future time set as well, which in turn would give more of that random feel as, You could make one if you like and then make a mold and cast the rest you need as well.

So here is the start and some more pictures for size comparison

Again it's only the begining of this project and will update as I go along, blocks still need some cleaning up and adding the details and painting but you can see from the next picture you can have a whole shipping yard full fairly fast and cheap.

Hope you have a large shipping yard for your port you'll need it for all your cargo and your containers too.