Building a 28mm WW2 Era French Garage

When my group decided to get into Chain of Command I starting putting together terrain for a Normandy table and building a French garage was always high on my to do list. There were already so many great examples out there and I had a lot inspiration to work with. One of the problems I faced with building a garage was the lots of little bits I considered essential to bring it to life. The acquisition of a 3D printer gave me the ability to print everything I would need. What follows is a brief step-by-step of the build. There are quite a few images of the finished garage at the end, along with the sheet of sign and posters which I have made available to download should anyone wish to use them.

The finished garage.

Gathering all the integral components. Walls are 5mm foamcore.

Assembling the basic building and mounting on some plasticard.

Removing the outer layer of card and some foam to accommodate the exposed brickwork.

The exposed brickwork is simply DAS clay rolled out to 2-3mm and textured with a Greenstuff worlds texture roller to imprint the brick design.

Fixing the brickwork, 3D printed windows and rolling door channels.

The walls and brickwork, textured, painted and weathered, and the light fixed in placed.

Dry fitting the 3D printed doors and a Citroen for scale.

The removable roof was made out of foamcore and card.

Cutting strips of tried and tested card shingles...

...old school, but effective.

Giving the doors a lick of paint and weathering.

All the bits and pieces laid out.

My sheet of signs and posters.

Test positioning the tank and the other bits. All the greebles were glued to a piece
of blister plastic to make it easier to paint and then fix them in.

Almost done - everything fixed in placed.

A Sherman for scale.

Some Warlord plastic Airborne for scale.

My sheet of signs and posters.
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