Sunday 19 June 2011

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.

19 comments:

  1. That is excellent Bryan! That extra you have done really pays of! Well done!

    I am rubbish at making card terrain. I need to start practicing a bit more on making them. I have some already printet out...but you know...too many damn projects!!

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  2. Great potential, very nicely done my friend.

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  3. ive spent the last few weeks reading all your posts, and man you are great at your hobby, love the kennels, ive just gotten into paper craft scenery and your blog gives great inspiration. keep up the good work

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  4. @Johnny. Going the extra mile has always been a strategy of mine when it comes to card modelling and you can certainly see here how it has paid off.

    You don't have to tell me about having so many projects and so little time. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do... and I'm unemployed with loads of free time apparently. Hah! Yeah, right!

    @Fran. A simple project like this does have great potential. Just think how many periods of history you'd be able to fit kennels in.

    @Mike. You have my utmost admiration and respect if you've read all of my posts. The fact that I can inspire you and others provides me with more than enough incentive to carry on doing what I love doing best. I love my hobby!

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  5. Haha LOL zombie puppy, excellent choice of scenario, you will have many options when you play or backgrounds

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  6. That's the idea, my friend. It's nice to have options.

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  7. I wonder what scenery you don't have...

    :)

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  8. Bryan...you I was expecting the internal wall, but you did the internal roof too! :) Wondeful piece of work.

    Maybe you could use them for a builder's yard, construction site or around some other survivor's hideout?

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  9. Very nice!! Well I know which pup I'd rather meet!!

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  10. @Adam. Well, they did come with the junkyard set, which seems entirely appropriate. But, yeah, a building site or survivor's camp sounds good as well.

    @Ray. Okay, I'll put you down for one zombie puppy! Ha, ha!

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  11. I really like this!

    Let's Go Puppy!

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  12. @Kobayachimaru. There is still a lot of scenery I don't have. Plus, there is a lot of scenery items I do have but haven't got round to making yet.

    @Zerloon. Thanks! Yeah, let's go, puppy!

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  13. Very nicely done, details its all about the details !!!

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  14. @The Extraordinarii. Absolutely!

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  15. Great as always Bryan. I just wish I had the ink (and time) to build the urban/suburban layout I want right now (of course I would also some scenery printed out for a rural setting).

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  16. Those are nice. You must have one of the most complete terrain collections extant.

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  17. @Doug. I feel for you, mate. Lack of time is such a bugbear for us all, myself included.

    @Luckyjoe. My collection of terrain pieces is growing all the time but there is always something new coming along... plus there's loads of old stuff that I've yet to build.

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  18. I was sure I'd already commented on this... :\
    Well, you've done an excellent work on the kennels and with the dogs too.. Since I don't have the Studio miniature set, can you (please of course) post a comparison between the SM dog, the Twilight dog and a survivor?
    Many thanks Bryan, I always appreciate your work! :)

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  19. Hey, Fabio. Seeing as the two dogs are almost the same height I'll direct you to my review of the Studio Miniatures set in which Toto appears -
    http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/2010/10/studio-miniatures-survivors-02.html
    He stands roughly at knee height to a human.

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