3 story building

The building for Dust Tactics - Operation Cerberus (formerly produced by Fantasy Flight) is absolutely fantastic. It clips together without glue, is robust and has nice detail. It also comes with ledges made of thick card that slide in easily.

If you buy two or more sets, they slot together. It can be re shaped too.

First, I decided to glue together the flat pieces, so there would be much less to assemble. The corners remained unglued, as did each level.

After a disastrous start, due to an extremely powdery white spray primer, I primed the whole thing white. Then I used Bestial Brown to paint the brickwork. Tamiya weathering (soot) was used on the external plaster work to give it character, highlight details, and to hide the bad paint job.

Lastly I dry-brushed the bricks with Leather-brown.

I was pretty happy with the results.

With the building in that shape, there was a spare door piece. I decided to used this to provide access to the roof.

I used some spare bits of textured plasticard to make a doorway. I filled in the gaps with green stuff (Tamiyas green stuff is white). The door, of course, is exactly the right size to fit across the alcove.

No stairs were provided, so I decided to make some which miniatures could stand on.

Taking a lot of off-cuts of foamboard, I started with a base of 6x9cm and build it up, 3 layers per step, until it reached the next floor.

It looked a bit shabby, so I covered the sides with plain plasticard, glued sprue supports to the corners to cover up the shoddy workmanship, and stuck squares of textured plasticard on each step - making sure they were 3.5cm squares, so they overhang.

A bit of green stuff in the gaps and it was starting to look nice.

The floors I made from textured plasticard, primed white and hand painted black checked. The same design on the stairs, although they were primed grey.

Now I need to make furniture.

By the way, the stairs, roof and all floors are easily removable.