It was back in 2019 that John Treadaway, editor of Miniature Wargames asked me to write a short series of articles showing how I built simple and affordable wargame terrain for my gaming table - 73 consecutive magazine articles later I thought it would be fun to revisit this brief and I set about producing this 28mm scale scratch built French Storehouse.
Built over a core of corrugated cardboard and 'plastered' with a mix of ready-mixed filler and DAS modelling clay with thin foam roof tiles the simple model was constructed over the 2025 Christmas holiday period on the kitchen table as the weather was too cold to work in the shed.
Painting was also simple with a pale cream base and tinted acrylic paint variation on the walls and grey, drybrushed lighter grey for the roof. Detail painting was done with more acrylics and I used watercolour pencils to add distress and streaks.
As you can see I did not add a base to this particular model - a homage to the original 2019 brief and request.
For more information and to see the contents of MW issue 515 (March 2026) see this link.
For regular readers and followers, I can confirm that issue 516 will contain another scratch built model and article - for more information, you will just have to wait a little longer.
Finally; I would be interested to hear from modellers if they would like these updates to include more (or less) information and/or illustrations. My own view is that I could add more images and descriptions without taking away from the published magazine article but I also know that these teasers could help magazine sales and at this moment I am confident that any sales are both good for the publishers and the retail areas.
What do you think?
Tony
