While I still have furniture to paint and glue into place, I've completed the building itself for this Urgent Care center from Atomic Laser Cut Designs - making this my fifth building, and sixth kit overall, from them. As always, I've done a little customization and decoration to make it feel a little more alive.
The exterior walls have gotten some graffiti, courtesy some GreenStuffWorld decals, as well as some lost dog signs and a "no littering" sign I pulled off Google Image Search and resized before taking to my local office supply store to print out. The windows (including the window separating the receptionist's area from the waiting room) have "glass" cut from overhead projector acetate sheets and glued into place.
The floors are likewise printed paper, from a set of floor patterns I got from Sarissa Precision. There was a lot of careful measuring, re-measuring and cutting, believe me!
Inside, we've got more signs in the waiting room (including one on the receptionist's window reminding patrons to be polite, based on ones I've actually seen in waiting rooms post-pandemic), and a bulletin board in the receptionist's office.
The one piece of furniture I've painted and glued into place so far is an air conditioning vent from OshiroModelTerrain. Most of the rest of the furniture I've got to paint is also from Oshiro, save for a pair of bench seats for the waiting room from GreenStuffWorld.
I had some nerves going into this kit - it's one of the most complex Atomic Laser Cut Designs offers, with multiple interior rooms, and I knew I wanted to split the flooring between wood and tile. And yeah, I snapped a piece while I was test-fitting. But other than that, I just took my time and did a lot of test-fitting and sanding and cutting and ultimately it was less stressful a process than I feared it would be.
In others news... while I'm not keen on zombie movies or TV shows much any more (post-pandemic they feel a little too close), I've gotten the bug to try out one of the solo zombie apocalypse wargames on the market - specifically, Zombie RV, which I know my friend Mike over at Lead Legionaries has spent some time playing. Thing of it is - I don't have any zombies! So an order was placed, and I fall well behind on my painted vs acquired tracker! At least they should be fairly fast and easy to paint up...
Miniatures Acquired: 173
Miniatures Painted: 129
Terrain Acquired: 4
Terrain Painted: 7
Scatter Acquired: 0
Scatter Painted: 9
Nicely done! The printed floors really make the difference and I dare say save a lot of time with painting.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael! The Atomic Laser Cut kits have an incised pattern on the floors, but to scale they'd be 5-foot square tiles! The printed floors really punch above their weight class in making these buildings look like real buildings.
DeleteSweet! The signs and the mini split are nice touches.
ReplyDeleteThat back alley is screaming for a dumpster full of medical waste i.e. spawn point. :)
Bad Goblin Games offers LED dumpster and oil can fires that I intend to pick up more of to use as spawn points :) The dumpster fire from them I already have always makes me smile on the table and gets a lot of positive feedback from others who see it.
DeleteBeautiful work!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff! Another source of graffiti is an online program that allows you to type in what you want and it generates it in graffiti-style text. You can even pick the colors and several different patterns. Love the building, and I agree -- the signs make it pop!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike, and thanks for the heads up about that program! I'm probably going to be replacing my home printer this year or next and I'll upgrade to a full-color one so I can do things like that more conveniently.
Deletelove it, finally somewhere to go when you have a few gunshot wounds or horrible bleeding from a monster attack.
ReplyDeletethe decals and the interior decor is superb.
i still have to get my wild west buildings littered with wanted posters and such.
Thanks Tim! I'm still figuring out the right balance of how much "stuff" to put on the walls - it's too easy to overdo it!
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