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Afghanistan/Pakistan buildings
poibrudda6
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 06:46 AM UTC
Aloha everyone!!!!

Does anyone know if there is a product on the market that best depicts a local farmhouse in the countryside of Afghanistan/Pakistan? I'm thinking more along the lines of the "mud houses".

Thank you in advance!!!

Kurt
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 07:03 AM UTC
Aloha Poibrudda6:

Here's a forum on a guy that built his own:

Afghan Village House

Here's a ceramic one from Verlinden you can buy. Ebay might be less money.

Verlindent Middle East/Afghan house

Google "1/35th Afghan House" and the ebay stuff will come up a bit down the page.

Happy Modelling, -zon

P.S. Is the 6 for six finger poi?
parrot
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 10:37 AM UTC
Hey Kurt,
I have used the Verlinden building and it's OK,but lately I have been dissappionted with their quality.Definately would suggest going with scratch built one.From the images I"ve Googled it looks much more realistic.
Thanks Zon for the link.

Tom
poibrudda6
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 03:30 PM UTC
Thanks much for your input guys!!! I think I will go with the scratchbuilt option and hope that I take sooo long that someone comes out with a kit of it! Oh and Zon-I would figure you know a little bit about us Hawaiians-6 finger poi is definitely right!!!
zontar
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Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 03:57 PM UTC
Tom: glad you found the link useful too.

Kurt: I'm happy I got the poi reference right!! Also, you could check out the thread "That Aussie's in Iraq" somewhere here in the Diorama section. The buildings for that were 3-4 story Iraq buildings, but the author gave a good step-by-step on how he made the walls out of plaster. Other threads will also help.

Post your progress as you go, we'd love to see and there are a lot of people on this site that can help.

Happy Modelling, -zon
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 02:54 AM UTC
You might want to try this:
http://www.hansasystemsusa.com/
Never used it yet but it's something I'm seriously thinking about.
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