Huts

HUT HUT HUT

So I needed some african looking huts for my Nambe: African Adventures game. I wanted to have twelve buildings so they needed to be cheap or at least easy to make by hand.

Extensive searches on the net taught me two things: There are only a few pre-made resin hut models that are quite expensive even unpainted and there are some cardboard cut outs that just don't look right. Here is how I made my own.

Hut construction

I cut some oatmeal boxes into rings and covered them with textured paper that looked like mud brick. I found the paper at a local art supply store.

The roofs were made from some paper models you can download from Wizards of the Coast's website. They are the roofs from the woodsman's hut. I know they don't look authentic but they work, and believe me they are easier than trying to thatch the roofs with string. I know, I tried.

I scaled the roof fold-ups from Wizards and recolored some so that not all of the huts would look exactly alike. Then I printed them out and traced the two different sized roof fold-ups onto light cardboard. Then I cut them all out. I found it easiest to assemble the cardboard roofs (staples worked very well), then cover them in glue and set the paper printout cone roofs down on top of them. At first I was worried because some of the paper cones didn't quite match the cardboard roofs and there was some creasing. But all of this made the roofs look better. After they were dry I trimed them with scissors.

The Kraal

Here is what the assembled village looks like. Simple cut-outs for doors and removeable roofs make it great for tactical play on a grid. The grid was simply traced on plexiglass overlaying a typical battlemat. Then some cloth from a local fabric store was put down to represent the ground and laid underneath the plexiglass. The plexiglass can be drawn on with overhead markers and erased with a damp cloth or paper towel.

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	HUT HUT HUT So I needed some african looking huts for my Nambe: African Adventures game. I wanted to have twelve buildings so they needed to be cheap or at least easy to make by hand. Extensive searches on the net taught me two things: There are only a few pre-made resin hut models that are quite expensive even unpainted and there are some cardboard cut outs that just don't look right. Here is how I made my own. I cut some oatmeal boxes into rings and covered them with textured paper that looked like mud brick. I found the paper at a local art supply store. The roofs were made from some paper models you can download from Wizards of the Coast's website. They are the roofs from the woodsman's hut. I know they don't look authentic but they work, and believe me they are easier than trying to thatch the roofs with string. I know, I tried. I scaled the roof fold-ups from Wizards and recolored some so that not all of the huts would look exactly alike. Then I printed them out and traced the two different sized roof fold-ups onto light cardboard. Then I cut them all out. I found it easiest to assemble the cardboard roofs (staples worked very well), then cover them in glue and set the paper printout cone roofs down on top of them. At first I was worried because some of the paper cones didn't quite match the cardboard roofs and there was some creasing. But all of this made the roofs look better. After they were dry I trimed them with scissors. Here is what the assembled village looks like. Simple cut-outs for doors and removeable roofs make it great for tactical play on a grid. The grid was simply traced on plexiglass overlaying a typical battlemat. Then some cloth from a local fabric store was put down to represent the ground and laid underneath the plexiglass. The plexiglass can be drawn on with overhead markers and erased with a damp cloth or paper towel. For questions about Nyambe.Com site content contact the webmaster at nyambefan@nyambe.com For questions or to report problems with this website, contact Nightwasp Web Designs. Web design by Nightwasp Web Designs