WWG Kennels

You could say that my last post was a load of rubbish and that this time I've gone to the dogs! LOL! As I continue my reviews of WWG 30mm scale street scenery I'm going to show you something that I've never used before in a batrep, even though I made them last year. They are a pair of kennels. The design of them is identical, only the colour scheme is different.

To give some sort of scale I've included a couple of miniatures of dogs in the photos. The black and white border collie came from the Studio Miniatures' set - Dorothy and her Gang and represents Dorothy's dog, Toto. The gore covered black dog is one of the cheap plastic zombie dogs made by Twilight Creations Inc. for their Zombies!!! game. The entrance to the kennels was just meant to be part of the front wall and was printed in black. That would be good enough for most people but remember my mission statement to always go the extra mile in card modelling! I printed out two sets of kennels and I cut out the front entrance of them both. If you want to copy my idea, make sure you have a sharp blade and preferably attached to a circular body. The circular body gives you greater control when cutting out rounded bits like the top of the kennel entrance.

The photo above shows the kennels from the rear and you can see that they are a very simple model to make, consisting of nothing more than four walls and a sloped roof. I deliberately left the floor off, which on the actual model is just a square of white paper that shouldn't be seen. Its purpose is to add stability to the model.

In this photo above you can see why I don't need a floor. Just look at how thick my walls (and roof) are. This is the advantage of sticking the photo paper cutout to mounting board. The interiors are just the external walls and roof but with reverse folds. Because of the thickness of the mounting board they had to be trimmed a bit to fit in but that was no major challenge. In real life kennels don't come with a floor so mine don't either.
You can find these two kennels in the old-style Mayhem Junkyard set. I'm not sure when I'll use them in my ATZ campaign but it's surely only a matter of time.