Modular buildings

In order to generate rapidly numerous various builings to complete my terrain project I recently envisaged to prepare modular walls to assemble to build any kind of tavern, Inn or Merchant house. The idea is the following a unit of wall is 2.5 cm large and to assemble easily various wall sections every parts must be multiple of 2.5 cm.

Every wall sections are scratch built with balsa wood and expansed polystirene. For the doors I used plaster casted Hirst Arts doors from Fieldstone Accessories Mold #71. For the windows I used wire netting to give details and the impression of crossed metallic bars usually observed on medieval houses. For the roofs, I decided to prepare a large piece that could be easily cutted with a cutter to adapt its size to the proper dimensions.
To distinguish upper floors from ground floor, the base of the ground floor timber walls contains stones.

Here are some pictures of the premolds and the silicon molds. Here to prepare the molds I used a very simple silicon gum composed of to pastes (blue: positive and white: negative) that becomes hard in five minutes when mixed together. This is a very simple and fast technique to prepare molds in minutes.

Premolds pieces:

 silicon molds:

After casting, the result is not perfect the details from windows doesn't appear well and I then decided to add piece of wire netting directly to the cased walls. But it represents a very easy way to generate in hours walls.

The next step is the assembly and painting. In order to glue walls together, I used pieces of balsa to finish the impression of timbered house. Finally in one day the building is assembled and painted.

Assembled and painted buildings :

For the floors I use thick pieces of balsa on which I engrave the parquet. Because, miniatures will be moved on the tabletop with dice rolls, the floors are composed of 2.5x2.5 cm squares.

Rapid view of the not completely finished interiors:

In conclusion, such houses can be realized in only two days !!!! :-)