First time I have done a tutorial so go easy on
me 🙂 This is an simple tutorial on how to
assemble the Najewitz Modellbau Normandy
farmstead,add a few extras and paint it all up.
Just got to mention before I start that my
inspiration for this was a thread by somebody
called “raphaeloudsen” on DakkaDakka
who for reasons unknown is un-contactable and thus
I was never able to ask him how he did his masterful
work which was a lot better than mine.
For 45 euros you get a house, a barn , a sort of a hay
loft, an out building , a large gate with roof and a
large section of walls. You basically get a bag of bits
that look like this.
Click on a picture to enlarge it.
Step 1: As with all resin kits it has small amounts of
flash on it that will need to be removed either with a
sharp craft knife or small file. Once its all removed I
washed all the bits in warm water to ensure it was clean
for assembly.
Step 2 : Before gluing I cut out floors(made from balsa)
to go inside the buildings. This way you can have two
floors for figures inside the buildings.
Step 3 : I now glued the buildings together using small
G type clamps. When the glue was dry I glued in supports
for balsa wood floors. I used a mixture of balsa and
plasticard(its hidden so nobody will see). Once dry
glue in your floors(leave top floor un-glued). Fill
any gaps in the buildings with green stuff.
Step 4 : I wanted the farm not to be fixed to my
terrain board for storage and so that it could be
moved around. To solve this I decided to fix the
entire farm to a plasticard sheet. The idea was to
fix the walls and gates permanently but leave the
buildings free. I used a standard 29.5cm x 20.5 cm
white plasticard sheet and about 3cm depth. Before
any painting I marked out where my buildings were
going to go on the plasticard and especially
important how the walls would all connect. One
small problem I noticed was that the gate is too
small for a tank so I left an opening in the wall
system for tank access. At this point you should
have glued all your walls together(they come in two
parts) and cut them to size to fit the base.
Step 5 : Painting. I used a mixture of GW , Vallejo and
P3 paints but anything will do. The colours of Normandy
buildings vary so don’t get the idea that my colour scheme
is the only one you can do.
The list below is just for walls, not the roof, windows
and doors. I tried not dry brush over the same areas thus
giving different colours across the brick work.
1. I base coated all the buildings and walls GW Chaos black.
2. I dry brushed everything Vallejo Flat Earth.
3. I dry brushed everything GW Dawnstone.
4. I dry brushed everything Vallejo Stone Grey 884.
5. I dry brushed everything P3 Troll blood in wavy lines.
6. I dry brushed everything GW Steel Legion in wavy lines.
7. The next painting stage consists of picking out bricks. Basically
paint a couple of bricks here and there is a random method. So first
up I used Vallejo Red Leather.
8. GW Tallarn Sand brick picking.
9. GW Mechanicus Standard Grey brick picking.
10. GW Gothor Brown brick picking.
11. GW Agrax Earthshade wash over all the brickwork.
Doors: Wooden doors and shutters were painted GW Loren Forest.
Window Frames : GW Bleached Bone.
Window and Doors Sills : GW Baneblade Brown.
Drain Pipes : P3 Traitor Green.
Other Doors : Vallejo Flat Brown.
Doors, shutters & sills GW Agrax wash.
Roof: GW Aldorf Blue dry brush.
Roof: GW Agrax Earth shade wash.
Step 6 : I now glued the finished walls to the plasticard
base in the carefully marked out locations. I also glued the
gate in place.
Once dry I used light household filler to
build up the ground to the walls and normal base scatter/grit
for the farm yard floor. The farm floor was drybrushed Flat Brown,
then Baneblade brown and finally Dawnstone.
The wooden fence at
the rear was scratch built from balsa. The hay is made from
door mat bristles.
Nearly forgot I used green stuff to fill in any gaps in the
walls and then painted as described earlier.
Step 7 : Foliage. I now added foliage as desired . Most of
the foliage is from Treemendus and is stuck on with PVA glue.
Step 8: The fascia boards(roof edging) were made from
Plasticard right angle and painted Loren Forest. Simply stick
on with glue. I also played with the idea on using artist
foil on the top of the roof but never got round to it. It
looks just like lead when painted up.
Step 9 : The telegraph poles are from Foreground(concrete
style) and were stuck down with filler and blended in with
foliage. They were painted black and then dry brushed Dawn
stone. The telephone wire is Oasis galvanised hobby wire
(30G x 7) and is cunningly attached. There is a scratch
built joint on the side of the farm house and the wire is
not glued to the telegraph pole but has enough tension to
easily be clipped to the pole. In the picture below the
wire is glued to the house wall(right red arrow) and goes
through the joint and then rests on the telegraph
pole(left red arrow) looking for all intense
purposes to be joined.
I used the same method at
each end of the plasticard base so you can lift the
plasticard base up and you don’t rip the poles out.
In the picture below the red arrows are where the wire
joins. Its not glued in place but just resting. Its glued
at the poles left and right of the arrows so the plasticard
can be easily lifted up.
The wire
basically has enough spring and tension to hold itself up.
Where the wire is attached I used good old super glue.
I`m sure there are a few bits left out so feel free to
ask any questions and I hope it helps 🙂
The model warrior 