first big dio about to start and some questions

drywall works great for making buildings, I use it all the time.

thanks f.f. the building is for a contest vignette im working on for another site. anyway, there are a number of things you can use...one of the easiest i use is styrene covered in spackling compound with the sidewalk detail drawn with a pencil then scribed with my exacto or something similiar. however, there's always modeling clay, foam as you've stated, wood, and on and on.

thanks guys, i got my dad to buy me a box of plaster so i wont have to worry about the grout shrinking, camo thanks for the advice and nice job on the building in the pick, hans thanks for the pick of the roof, my figures will be here tommorow and i plan on starting, one more thing, what should i use for the streets, foam board? calk? or... what do you guys use for the brick looking streets

thank you hans...i just couldnt remember the name at the moment! what's new in my case!

If you mean sheetrock mud by drywall grout, it'll take forever to dry in the mold, shrink, and crack if it's any thicker than an 1/8th inch or so... It's just not a good mold material... You'd be better off using sheetrock scraps...

The roof material that CJ's talking about are curved "Terra Cotta" tiles... I've always made them by using corrigated cardboard strips...

well, first, i cant speak for ww2 but germany is germany and when i lived there the majority of their roofs had those 1/2 pipe looking things. ummm, if you look at scotts (modelchasm's) battle of mog. dio, he has one part of a roof with those type of "tiles" on them. secondly, yeah you can use crushed bits of grout should work fine. 3rd, not sure of the grout for "casting" your buildings. i myself use hydrocal (available at most art and hobby stores by the m.m. stuff).