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Bridhouse Barn
I go this mess(?) in the discount row of a Micheal's craft store. It a basswood
(or maybe balsa) birdhouse. I comes assembled, but apparently this one was dropped
or something. It came like this, as is for $2.50 instead of the standard $10.00.
Bargain. Cheap Terrain. Lots of Area. Customizable. Interior Access.
Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-ching!
OK, thirty seconds and a few dabs of wood glue later, we have this. In fairness,
I did assemble it loosely in the store to make sure I had all the parts.
Here are the mods:
- Installed a floor at for the top section. Just a balsa slat glued from underneath. Not the best support structure, but certainly enough to handle even a full compliment of metal mins.
- Added a door to the loft. Card stock held on with a duct tape hinge.
- Backed the main door with card, too.
- Added planks and shingles with a ball point pen. The nib is hard enough to engrave the soft wood and the black ink will bleed through paint. I get texture and shadowing all together.
And here it is painted. Pretty basic, but it will still make a fairly imposing and
relatively decent looking structure onthe table.
Here it is in the context of a few 28mm figures. It's a bit big and chunky, but I
like that for terrain pieces. Moving in open spaces and built up spaces is different,
and if our rules don't implement that, our terrain can.
And one last photo, in a game, in the company of my
cheap village made
of smaller craft kits and birdhouses. Again, not a set of museum quality terrain
pieces. But they do the job, look good enough to let suspension of disbelief
sink in during a game, and the entire table still costs less than $40.