City Street terrain

A total step into the unknown for me but thought I would make a start on a city street suitable for Hue or Saigon. The plan will be to have 2 boards of 2 buildings each side of the street, then will add more if these turn out OK. Other than basing figures, vehicles and smaller terrain pieces I have never made terrain boards before so any help on applying static grass and other basing materials would be appreciated!
Buildings are from WOW and rear walls are Empress.

They look great!

excellent chris

Buildings on the WOW site are great and attractive. That will be a great terrain.
Could I suggest you add some shutters (I made mine using plastic clamps/collars cut in piece): that would bring nice details and colors: on the picture of Saigon or Hue the buildings are mostly grey or ivory but the shutters have many shades of turquoise, from blue to green.

Shutters are a great idea Richard. I have spent hours looking at images trying to identify suitable street furniture, for example did some houses have external air vents on their walls, what street lighting and even what sort if garden furniture! Not as easy as I thought so your views are most welcome

For my display diorama, I find inspiration in such sample (made by a Vietnamese guy in 1/35). This is a good condensation of typical accessories that could make a terrain more realistic for that time: exotic trees, electric poles (all different in reality), many many electric cables/wires, scooter, Labretta, bicolor 4CV taxis or rusted delivery trucks, trashes, advertising billboard everywhere, hand painted shops signs everywhere, food stalls/carts and ...turquoise shutters...
The difficulty after is to find these items in 28mm, 20mm, 15mm...

richard the blue shutters ?

some on thingiverse

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:453357

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4635774

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2194316

Wow, thanks chaps, some great ideas there,  already looking for a vending cart!

Made a start laying out the next part of the street to see how many more walls I need....  quite a few! Just ordered more from Empress and Rubicon....

Looking forward to seeing the finished project. Over the years I have bought lots of shutters here in the US from Walther's the model railroad site.

Tom

nice start

Plodding along with this. Houses and walls mainly painted and the streets will eventually be lined with trees, lights and telegraph poles.

lookin good

Very nice!

Outstanding work!

very nice street

Thanks chaps, just invested in a static grass applicator.... never used one before so any tips would be appreciated!!

This is going to be incredible! Nice work.

We've shied away from WoW due to past experiences, but those are very, very sweet. I'm building the Arnhem Museum model just now and it's simply awful, as was the Hartenstein and the set of 'bridge' buildings. I am a skill-free one, so it does not matter too much, but if I were a decent modeller it would be very frustrating.

I shied away from WOW stuff for a while too, I find giving the buildings a quick coating of polyfilla mixed with pva glue takes away the 3d printing texture and adds a splash of realism, takes minutes on each building so worth the effort

Only slight progress made, painting around 100 plant pots and ornamental bits and pieces to populate the courtyards. Telegraph poles and street signs added. Just waiting for some more textured wallpaper to arrive so I can crack on with the greenery!

Excellent job.

I love the corner street sign.