Starport Lockup - Micro Art Studio Barracks

Every so often I'll pick up something cheap because it's useful.  At some point last year, I bought one of Micro Art Studio's hardfoam barracks blocks second hand from ebay cheaply. The barracks set includes a pair of hardfoam buildings with resin doors, plus an MDF watchtower. What I bought was one of these:



Battlefield Hardfoam Barracks building from Micro Art Studio.

I figure it would represent a range of different things - a small industrial unit or warehouse; a bunker; a secure lockup; a garage...

'Pops' Dwight checks the manifest before the scheduled departure of the Lysa.

I'd not worked with a hardfoam model before. Mine had been compressed a little at some point - perhaps during moulding, or possibly storage. This meant that the face with the door section wasn't straight. I had to recut the slot for the door, and attempted to conceal the gaps with some plastic rod. Although it was pre-primed, the coverage wasn't very good, so I ended up undercoating with a brush - I wasn't sure how the hardfoam would react with a spray paint.

I gave the building a non-specific, multi-functional grey-with-rust paint job. The only details I bothered to paint on were the display above the door and a few random numbers on a couple of the sides to add some interest.

 

 

Hopefully the resulting building will prove useful on most gaming boards.