I thought it was time to get my hands dirty and
began by upgrading a Kibri townhouse, which I
had purchased for less than £5. The timber frame
on these models is just printed sticky-backed
plastic that is easily peeled off for starters.
There’s usually a discovery or two to make
when you acquire a completed plastic kit and
this particular one included two ground-floor
window frames that had been glued upside
down. After failing to make either budge but
managing to do a good bit of damage, I decided
to conceal the attempted break-in with balsa
wood window shutters. I replaced the 2D timber
frame with balsa wood strips glued on with
PVA. More and more timber framing could have
been added but I decided (with one eye on the
aforementioned suburb) to keep it simple as it
was a time consuming business. Painting over
the modern-look white window frames is a must
as far as I’m concerned – but then I do have a
personal war against the use of black and white
in wargames land! Already the building looked
better. A simple paint-job was fine for this
model and apart from the roofing tiles
needing a bit of repair work and a
dry-brushing, that was building
number one finished!
One Building don’t make a Village
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LEFT The Kibri building’s peeled off papers.
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