Terrain- Building 9- Terraces

This kit is from TT Combat. It's a great little piece that allows you to create a decent length row of terraced houses really cheaply. The detail on the kit is great, and it's generic enough that a bit of customisation can be made to dress it up quite easily.

I'd had success using brick paper on my scratch-made water tower, so I wanted to try it out on a larger building to see if the effect was just as good. I also felt that brick paper would speed up the process of getting the kit table-ready , compared to using filler, etc for the walls. I used the same brick paper that I had used for the water tower (and would then use again for the Boulangerie), and I must say I like the scale, colour and overall effect of this. I have other brick papers which I will try out on other kits, but I think I'll use this one the most... 

I added back yards to the houses to increase the overall footprint, using foamboard for the walls. The original TT Combat kit has no back doors, so I decided to make outhouses that extended out from the rear of the house to define one side of the yard and then join them together by a back wall. This allowed me to enclose the yards with back gates and make a self-contained block.

Walls and roofs are tiled with cardboard tiles, as per, and the spare shutters from the kit (where ground floor rear windows are now covered by an outhouse) were utilised to make shuttered windows on the extensions themselves.

I wanted to make one of the back yards a little different, as I felt three identical enclosed yards would be a bit dull. I omitted the back gate to allow for an open yard and gave the outhouse two doors instead of a window. I had an MDF motorbike from Sarissa rattling around, and had always planned on making a little garage or workshop and have it propped up outside. This seemed like a good option for quite a small yard space and so I decided to create a little backstreet business. I added some crates and oil drum clutter and stuck a few suitable automobile related posters to the yard wall and a Michelin advert outside, A wall-mounted lamp from the Rubicon street furniture sprue finished things off nicely. A couple of other posters and advertisements seemed to be enough to finish off this model- I wanted something big on the end wall to break up a big expanse of red brick. I positioned it as I have so that if I place one end of the terrace against another building, I can flip the upper floor round and have the poster on the other end.