For 99p in a charity shop the other day . .
.
. . . came this wooden fort; flat-packed
like a piece of Ikea's best, but I
think I saw them in The Works about
8/10 years ago? It's got two figures! Is there a category of Toy Soldiers for
them - Multi-directional Flats; Semi-flat Slots, Pseudo-flats, Slotty-slot
Slottingtons?!!
I'll not be getting it out of the pack for
a while, hence the quick-post nature of this post! It'll go in the 'paper and
card flats box' (currently in storage) at some point, but due to greed on the
part of the storage facility; that may be sooner than even I thought, which
will benefit the blog!
I think from the measurements on the Quay-branded packaging it will have the same 'footprint' as all the other small-scale forts at between 6 & 8-inches per side?
Running late this week, so tomorrow's post will be late posting and I don't know what it will be yet!
I like this fort, the basic model is pretty simple to put together (you can leave out the fiddly bits) and quickly painted stone grey with acrylics I I have used it as background in some early blog "photo shoots" such as https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/back-to-basics-toy-soldiers/
ReplyDeleteMark, Man of TIN blog / Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog
Good Stuff MiN-MoT!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking, one day, put it together, seal all the joins and slots with Nomorenails (other propitiatory builders adhesives are available), then paint it with sand-texture paint, but . . . un- or non-pigmented carrier, then wash and dry-brush it so the stone-work shows through like yours!
But actually yours has worked just fine with a thin coat? Can you remember where you got it? I'm sure I saw it somewhere but can't remember, TKMaxx or The Works?
H