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All for viaduct!

We are working for you! The man from Bologna have involved all his family for the sacred duty to build a viaduct for Flyton. You can see in their fierce look a determination to work until the last brick will be fixed! Even children are ready to cut and paint. Well done!

On the other hand you must think about this man while he persuaded his children to pose for this picture, and his wife while took the picture. Madness caused for too much lead is evident! And I’m guilty for this heavy duty about polystyrene and card.

The building go on. Here you can see the printed parts on adhesive paper, cut to be ready.
And for parapet, Fabio bought a forex sheet (a semi-rigid sandwich: two cardboard with sponge inside).
More on arrival through mms!

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Just arrived: a mayor for Flyton

This is my mayor. He arrived this morning by mail from Madison WI. This nice guy made of lead is the result of a great idea: honour a dead father with a miniature that represent him. His name was Dan J. Binsack and you can find more informations here. A lot of people bought this lead person, especially in the circle of Very British Civil War players. So he is present in a lot of games. I found for him the role of mayor for my Flyton in my future games.

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A viaduct for Flyton (part 1)

I spoked about more bricks for my town. Well, these are made of polystyrene.
I bought for 4 quid from Scalescene (see here), a maker of train modelling scenery in form of pdf, the draws to print. You have got the basic pieces to build a viaduct, its length is how many you want, the only thing to do is to print more sheets to apply on cardboard.
But what is thought for train modelling is different from what is for war with lead people, so I could not use cardboard, I needed more hard and durable materials. And something modular too, because I haven’t the need of a fixed scenery, but something always different and easy to store.
So I called my friend Fabio from Bologna, the artist of polystyrene, and he decided to bring to reality the viaduct!

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Here you can see his child Alice while he was buying the polystyrene sheet. (Imagine the scene: “Come with me Alice, daddy are going to bring you in a beautiful and interesting place”) Its thickness is equal to the wideness of the road on the viaduct, so the only thing to do is cut bricks and after dig the arches. It seems simple, innit? So, it is simpler to say than to do, but this polystyrene artist can make it with mastery, I’m not capable to do a clean work like this.
The following step is to print a lot of arches on adhesive paper and attach them on the polystyrene.
I want a viaduct of about 1.5 metres, so he have to do a lot of work. In a following post we will see the progresses on this project. I’m informed of every step through mms from his mobile, so I’m waiting news like you.

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Next stop: Flyton!

“I’m building an English city in 28mm scale. For now I have got a double deck”. I told this phrase almost eight months ago. After I told it I found it very funny, because you cannot do a city with a bus…
Instead it is partially logical. I want a city to set my skirmish games, because in skirmish battles with firearms you cannot have a scenery based on a lawn (the first who moves kills all with a burst), and put some tins or books around is dreary. So this bus is the first thing I bought to set a scenery, the first brick of my city.

bus stop

bus stop

I bought for few quid on E-Bay this old model, almost a wreck. I repaired some lost parts, put the numbers of the 12 line (I was taking this bus line when I went to Luca’s house) and changed its disrupted adverts with Marmite ones. Its aspect is around the ’50 I suppose, but I will put it in every set since 1938 to 21th century. Who cares is sometime it will be not chronologically exact, it is always a double deck, an English icon.

bus stop

Here you can see the second brick of my city, a transport from 1938. And sunday I bought a railway crane and a van. More bricks are on arrival…

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