Dust City Board

The Dust Tenement buildings are modular kits that fit together without the need for glue. They are designed to work with the gridded mats of Dust 1947 but as I wasn’t planning on using the grid system, I wasn’t restricted to the standard construction of the buildings. I played around with the pieces I had available and settled on two different builds, one slightly wider than the other. This would allow me to construct a total of eight buildings, four of which would be ruined to varying degrees.

Although the buildings can be constructed in multistories, I don’t find this particularly practical for game play. In any event, I would soon run out of pieces if I added multiple floors to each building. Instead I settled for just one raised floor per building. The interior level was constructed using the card board internal floor sections that come with the kit. With this decided I glued the buildings together for added strength. I then clad the thick card floors in coffee stirrer floor boards which adding some detail and increased their strength.

Although I was sticking with single stories, I did have a plan to add a little extra height to the buildings. By using plasticard and some wooden mouldings, I could add a plinth to the building tops. This was largely for cosmetic reasons as the buildings themselves have no roof features. However it would also allow a flat roof to be dropped in, giving a second level for game play.