Wooden block warehouses and industrial buildngs

I have been attempting to make some cheap and simple warehouses and industrial buildings over the last few months for a St. Nazaire Raid game based on D. Featherstone's book "Battle Notes for Wargames". All in all I will need about 20-30 buildings.

I began with trying to make the warehouse style buildings from card (see post here). It takes quite a bit of work and they cannot be easily stacked for storage. So this weekend I tried something different, blocks of wood.

I purchased a couple of differently sized pieces of wood and began sawing. After a couple of failures I found the most effective way to get a reasonable sized building was to cut two pieces of wood at an angle using a mitre tool and saw for the roof then stick them back to back.

The cut wood

The two pieces of wood get stuck back to back to create the building shape 

Once dry they are sanded, then simply painted with grey for the roof and a brick red/brown for the walls. Once the paint is dry I measure and markup the windows and doors with a pencil and paint the windows black and doors as blocks of colours. The windows get a bit of extra work with a light grey to show the frames.

A base coat is used for roof and walls. Then windows and doors get painted.

At this point the buildings are looking ok, but look a bit flat colour-wise. To address this I used oil-based pastels to give the impression of a corrugated roof by quickly drawing lines of black and white. The similar approach is used for the walls with a brown and a burn orange colour.

The lines of the roof and walls are crudely drawn, but give a the impression of corrugated iron and brick texture, sufficient for the wargaming table and my tastes.

These are robust terrain pieces and can get stacked in storage.

About another 15 or so buildings to saw and make (including some houses).

Houses

The next post will be the two ACW actions played this weekend from my mini-campaign.