Hey folks, welcome back to another How To: Build adventure. This week we get our glue-tacky hands on the Laser Craft Workshop MDF Terrain 8" x 4" Sector 38 Hab Blockhouse. We received our blockhouse in the Sector 38 Hab Block Starter Set but may be purchased separately too. If you want to know what else comes with the 8" x 4" Blockhouse in the starter set please check out our Unboxing article here.
The blockhouse comes in plastic bag with everything needed to complete the kit. We separated all the components out below: a roof and floor; five windows; one door; two long walls and two long battlements; two short walls and two short battlements; four roof panels; eleven building panels of various sizes; and one set of ladder pieces.
We decided to start with the main floor of the building first. We made sure the detailed side of the floor stayed up making it visible once completed and when removing the roof. We next grabbed the long wall with the door to glue first. Make sure to dry fit everything before gluing it in place. PVA glue works with this kit but we chose to use Gorilla Wood Glue for the entirety of this project. We applied glue to the bottom of the long wall piece and the backside of its downward tabs since these parts of the long wall actually make contact with the floor.
The result looks like the picture above. We used a combination of our fingers and a toothpick to clean up any excess glue. We suggest keeping a cleaning device such as paper towels nearby to clean the cleaning devices. Now in the past this L-shape terrain feature would please us here at Dank Lists Wargaming. Want to know why? Click here and find out! Despite our sentiments, this blockhouse only stands with one wall up when we need four! Thus, we continue to build.
We moved on to a short wall. This wall piece possesses tabs on three sides so we made sure to apply glue to the back side of each tab on the bottom and side that connects to our already standing wall. We will worry about the other tabs later when we place the last long wall piece. Similarly, we only glued between the tabs on the sides that met the floor piece as well as the wall that's already standing.
We ended up with our beloved L-shape again but still we must trudge on!
We repeated the same process on the second short wall that we used on the first and with end up with the above picture ready to place the back wall on. Here, we applied glue to all contact points which include the sections between the tabs and the backsides of the tabs on all three sides of the back wall.
We pause here to admire our box. Then, we press on to make our box go from a box to something worthy of fighting over.
The front door side of the box requires three different shaped panels to fit in the three detailed boxes above. The panels used are the larger ones in the kit. Once placed with a little glue, they will look like the picture below.
We glued the smaller panels on the sides of the building.
With the paneling complete, we moved on to the windows and door. Placing the windows and door requires a little more care in order to line the edge of the cutout in the wall with the edge of the window or the edge of the door. Once done, it will look the image below.
We repeated the same process for the side and back windows.
At last, we arrive to the roof. We put the detailed side up so it would be visible from above once complete just like the floor of the building. We started with one of the long battlements taking note of the fact that the top side of the battlement contains a angled cut. We glued the sides of the tabs on the roof as well as the long stretch between them and in the corners.
We continued by adding a short battlement next followed up with the second short battlement and the last long battlement.
With the battlements in place, we covered up the tab insertion points with paneling on all four sides creating the image below.
Finally, we turn our attention to the ladder. We applied glue to the sides of the tab, in the stretches in between, and up to the right angle at the top and to the bottom of the ladder. We cleaned up lots of extra glue on the ladder because of the many contact points so prepare yourself.
With one side done, it will look something like the image below. For the sake of the article, I used sticky tack to make the most honorable L-shaped ladder piece.
With both sides completed, we bask in the glory of our new ladder.
We put everything together real quick for a few completion photos and then left the roof, ladder, and main building to dry separately overnight.
Accounting for all the picture taking along the way, it took maybe an hour to complete. If not making a How To: article, it will take even less time to complete the kit.
If you wish to purchase your own MDF Terrain Blockhouse from Laser Craft Workshop, please click here for more information. The kit costs $14.99 on it's own but does come with a slight discount by purchasing the starter set available here.
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