Ron Strickland
and Skip Nicholson
Ron built and Skip detailed this grand little walled outpost. Note that a removable section makes the tower variable in height.

The walls and base are foamcore and illustration board, covered with a mix of spackle, sand, parakeet gravel and white glue. Ron says the result is "almost bulletproof."

Rooves and upper storeys are removable for access to the interior. Balsa was used for roof material. Foamcore joints are strengthened internally with sections of wooden toothpick.

Skip also modified this tower from the Pirate Battle Set.

Grant Sigsworth
Grant likes courtyards. The larger one at left is removable and can be used against any building.
Grant also builds ruined versions of some of his buildings (below).

Grant built these dhows, using grommets on the mast and the yardarm to allow for easy removal of the sail. The command dhow at left has brass guns from a ship-model manufacturer.

The single-masted dhows are small, built for a ten-man unit. The dock is created from foamcore and worked by bearers from Foundry's Darkest Africa line.

The launch's boiler is made from pen parts, part of a spool and two beads from a jumprope, plus some copper tubing.

Of the gunboat, Grant says: "a notional design, based vaguely on turn of the century torpedo boat destroyers. I needed something to carry the naval gun. I left the bridge open - it's reasonably accurate and makes access so much easier."

Tim Peterson
Tim created this adobe cantina for use with his [Foundry, of course] Wild West figures, but it will serve for India, Afghanistan, and North Africa skirmish gaming as well as Old Mexico. It is of foamcore board, with a removable roof. The doors open and close. The barrels are wooden turnings from the craft store.

See interior details here.

Tim also made these sensational African huts the hard way.

Tim says: "For the roofs, I took string and teased out 1" lengths, and thatched it, a tiny bit at a time. [Stout fellow!] The bottom row takes forever, but each one above it takes far less; the last extends past the top, where it is tied off in a tuft. The whole roof is covered with diluted white glue, and painted once dry. The grain jars (Yes, they really are that big!) are turned wooden candle-holder cups from a craft store. Click for details."

The cylindrical huts are made from round papier-mache boxes bought at a craft store.

For this domed hut, he says: "I covered Xmas-tree ball halves from a craft store with glue & layers of paper and peeled it off. After it dried, I covered it with string.

"I've seen similar huts in the background of Soudan War illustrations."

You can see more of Tim's work on his Gisby's Page Website.
Lately Tim has ventured into Landships. This is the "Kaiserinn," known to its crew as "Der Schtroumpf" (the Smurf, Tim?). It is made from a G.I. Joe "Cobra IMP."