OK, the warehouse: This has been a central part of the dio from day one, and was intended to be a French colonial river warehouse for storing rice and other produce prior to river-boat loading. Therefore, it is built right on the riverbank, on a concrete base, using local bricks, cement rendered and painted. Now it has been taken over by the Americans, who are using it as a staging post for small amounts of diesel fuel, fresh water, and ammo for the river craft engaged in Market Time operations...
I used the venerable Tamiya brick wall sets for the basic structure (4 sets) and reinforced them with plasticard and balsa. Windows and doors are MiniArt, and the roof is corrugated plasticard from an architectural model shop (
4D modelshop). The sections of roof were sprayed tamiya aluminium with a touch of grey, then masked and sprayed with Lifecolor rust 1 and 2.
I then coloured some of the bricks, and applied Liquitex Stucco with a tiny palette knife (like a scale trowel) in 2 coats.
The stucco needs painting, the roof fixing, then some more filling, then weathering - lots of rust streaks from metal brackets and other fixings long since gone. Maybe a flag out front, and some industrial looking lights too...
Hope you like it so far:
And this is the product, available from artstores, used to do the plaster:
