Building My House

I started building a model of my RL house to use as a base for my campaign.  I'm starting out by building the basic structure from foamcore board.  After a lot of internal debate I decided to not try to do the interior.  I figured it would take way too long and keep me from continuing my campaign.  As the good people at THW say, 'just play the game!'  I'll use the I, Zombie building rules for any fighting that takes place indoors.

The basic structure is a story and a half house with a sunroom addition in back and an attached garage on the side.  There is also a roofed front porch but all you can see here is the 'slab' for the porch.

I'm experimenting a bit with this project. I decided that I would just draw the doors and windows on and use card or styrene to build up the siding around them.  Since there is no interior I don't need to see through the windows and it saves a lot of fiddly cutting of holes in the foamcore.  I'll paint on the window and door details.

I will probably mount the whole thing on a base that will include the driveway, flowerbeds and back deck.  You can't really see the garage door drawn on the black foamcore but I think you get the idea.

Here's a shot with the family posing in front...

...and around back.  The sunroom has sliding glass doors across the entire back wall - 3 sets of doors.  There are also sliding glass doors in each of the sunroom's sidewalls. All that open glass will make this a tough house to defend but I've got some ideas.  The back deck goes in the space between the garage and the sunroom.

The plan is to build the house as it exists in real life - or as close as possible - and then build pieces that can be added onto the model to show it boarded up, fortified and defended.  These pieces will be able to be removed so the house can be used for early or late apocalypse scenarios.

There are two dormer windows on the front slope of the roof. These will give great roof access and I'm thinking of building a catwalk around the roof as part of the defenses.  We'll see how that turns out!

It has been great to imagine my home in a zombie apocalypse and then to plan how I would fortify it.  A fun project so far and only just getting started!