Hello Everyone,My wife and I have decided to build a village little by little every Christmas (only two homes so far). I was hoping people would have suggestions on what we should build besides the homes and carts we buy (hills, roads, lake/rivers, etc) so that it can look nice and, hopefully, be easy to store. If this belongs in a different board please let me know
>>2961344why don't you two have sex and make some kids instead?
>>2961360Cause your mom won’t give me a night off
>>2961344you seem to have mistaken 4chan for an actual forum where people give a shit about stuff, and being nice.
>>2961344I've been thinking about doing something like this but with a 3D printer and my goyhammer paints.
>>2961364Kek>>2961369Inconvenient truth
>>2961344Nice for my snow vilage, I usually make nice little snow hills for the houses and add ice lakes :3Maybe you can try that
>>2961344do you have any carpentry skills? also just to make sure - the little lady isn't "trans", right?
>>2961344could put a little christmas market in the middle, with market stalls and a christmas tree. as for landscape i think a little stone bridge over a frozen stream is top comfy
>>2961344Hey OP, my mom is really into snow village stuff so what I did a few years ago was I got a sheet of plywood and a few 2x4s and I traced out "organic" shapes on them and cut them out with a jigsaw to create a "mountainside" effect. I started with a large platform with a small curve inward and this is the bottom. She set up the "main street" on this part, with all the businesses and stuff like in the OP picture. Above that was another platform with the "suburb" type houses on one side and the lake on the other with ice skaters. Then there was a third tier with one side being skiers and the other side being a hunting cabin.Hers was rather elaborate, but all you have to do is get a small sheet of half inch plywood from lowes/home depot (they sell two foot by four foot pieces, they're overpriced but they fit in normal cars) and cut two sides in a wavy curve and then when you put down the roll of fake snow it gets covered and looks like a hill. Cut a 2x4 into ~8" pieces and screw the plywood to them at all the corners. You can change the size of the 2x4 cuts to suit your purposes. When it comes time to store it, unscrew the 2x4s and put the screw back in the the hole it made so you don't lose them, and put them in a box and the plywood against a wall in a closet. It doesn't take up much space at all
>>2961364childish replay from a manchildren who has a wife and instead of raising kids is playing with toys by himself
This may not be 100% what you are looking for but there is a popular modeling youtuber called Nightshift who does a lot of diorama work you could check out, he obviously builds mostly battlefield stuff but most of the materials, tools, and techniques would be applicable to your project. The same would go for people interested in dollhouse making, model railroading, and even wargaming. Since you're on 4chinz you could look at the scale modeling general on /toy/, >>>11630462Insofar as materials you're going to want extruded plastic stock and sheets, balsa wood, insulation foam board, and Bondo. For tools, a razor knife and fine-toothed saws are key, as well as rasps. You might want to invest in an airbrush and hobby paints, trying to brush-paint a whole village would drive me crazy and rattlecans are going to be too much paint volume for miniatures. The biggest thing you'll run into is the relationship between your willingness to invest time and money and your tolerance for errors, inaccuracies, and shitty work. Quality work does not come fast or cheap.
>>2962673Seething
>>2961344>If this belongs in a different board please let me knowPinterest stuff
>>2961344growing up we had my O gauge train track screwed into a half sheet of plywood and for Christmas we would pull it out of the garage and put the tree stand in the middle of it then build a village around the tree skirt and the train tracks, then I would see if I could get the train to go fast enough to skip the tracks on a corner and crash into villager figurinesgood times, get a train
>>2961344If your base is not already very easy to lift I'd ensure you can hang the base and box the buildings in a divided box you can build to your preference. The easier your layout is to move and store the longer you'll enjoy it.Model railroaders have a vast variety of cook ways to make and mod things you can get ideas from.If you add a vertical back that permits more scenery and can make the assembly stiffer and box-like.
