Frostgrave terrain on the cheap

A few days ago, a friend’s post drew my attention to a small haunted house made of laser-cut MDF. The set is available from Flying Tiger and is called ‘Paint-your-own haunted house’.

It comes in a small box with six laser-cut MDF panels.

Contents of the box: 6 laser-cut MDF panels, a few colours, a paintbrush and a small tube of glue.

It also comes with instructions, but they’re not very helpful. You have to guess which parts are meant. This is confusing because even though the parts are not numbered in the instructions, they *are* numbered on the wooden panels. That’s strange.

After a bit of gluing and a lot of sticking (actually, only the decorative parts are glued; most of the parts are wedged together properly), you end up with the following result

As you can see from the comparison skeleton, the building is a touch too small for 28 mm. It would be better for 25mm or 20mm, but I think once it’s painted, it’ll be fine.

Before painting, however, a few small things need to be changed. The bat on the roof has to go, the door wings just don’t look good and the door doesn’t close either, but worst of all are the holes/gaps in the roof.

That’s just too much of a gap for my taste. I’ll have to change that.

Final result after construction. And this is what the preliminary final result looks like. A small haunted house, a few pieces of scrap wood, paint, a very cheap paintbrush and a good amount of glue.

Speaking of cheap: the set costs a mere 5 Euro. You can’t complain about that.

As shown in the last post, the kit isn’t too bad for 5 Euro. But there’s still room for improvement!

Step one – add something to the roof. Roof shingles!

Then apply a grey primer and dust with white from above.

But then the whole thing still looks a bit colourless. So more colour, please.

And some snow, a skeleton, a few gravestones, and suddenly a 5 Euro kit has turned into something quite presentable.