The year 1990 found me found me strapped for cash despite holding down a full-time job, so for a while I used what I'd learnt so far about making wargames buildings to eke things out. I made models for several well-known wargamers at that time, and found out that some people could be very fickle about what they wanted, yet quite assertive about how much they wanted to pay. And everything took me much longer than I had expected, because I wanted to finish it to my own standard regardless of payment.
One customer who didn't mess me about was AWI gamer John Ray, and here's some photos he took of two models I built for him, based on contemporary line drawings of a house and a church of that time. I think John supplied some castings for the windows, and the figures shown are his own. Otherwise the building methods are what I've described before: card, balsa, Wills plastic sheets and model railway fencing. I wouldn't make the same choices now with all the methods and colours you see here, but there's no learning without trial and error.
The tree and hedge foliage is rubberised horsehair, teased apart and sprayed black, with leaves added from dyed cork granules. Don't worry if that sounds a bit obscure! I have been improving this technique over many years and I will explain it properly in future posts, hopefully a tutorial as such. I recently built new trees for my own table in two batches. I was a bit fed up of trees in the end to be honest, but I've got 50-odd nice ones made, reasonably quickly and cheaply too.
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