My latest addition to my Venice board build does something about that.
I'm working on a basis of expanding my board as I go, and for each building I print, I am printing enough street tiles for it to stand on.
Technically, I could have go away with just printing two more this week, but four gives space for people to walk and fight.
The house itself comes from a designer called Terrain4Print and is actually a free sample pack (look for 'Italian Village' on the usual platforms) of STLs which include this piece, the 'medium' house, a shed, some walls and a 'big' house.
I've made a point about the size descriptors as this is a chunky building that eats a hefty amount of filament (the mind boggles as to how much the 'big' house uses), standing 5' off the street, and allowing 6" jumps if you chain jump off the chimney pot (this can be important in Carnevale).
It's not only a large building, but there's also a noticeable scale difference between this and the Hartolia Miniatures buildings I've already done, with this building being more in scale with the Carnevale range.
However, it is a very serviceable building and I like the chipped plaster effect and smaller, less ornate windows, giving very much the impression of a poorer residence, or even boarding house.
The difference in style actually works to my advantage in dealing with the difference in scale as it doesn't make sense for these building to be side by side, so if I keep them apart on the board.
The doors are the biggest giveaway, so the yellow house could even go next to the new building as it's doors aren't that visible. I will have to keep it apart from the red building.
I'm not sure if I'll print anything else from the pack (maybe the shed), but I suspect that the next set of additions will allow me to put together a serviceable 2'x2' table.
Acquired: -98
Painted: 518
Lead Mountain: 216
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