Rae's Cafe

I have wanted to do this for ages since purchasing the M.U.C.K. collection from Carl Stoezel.

I have a daughter called Rae-Ann (pronounced Ray Ann). In the shop signs that comes with the collection is a sign that says "Rae's Cafe". We call her Rae for short.

I have been so focused on getting buildings up so I can play that I haven't had the time to personalise the building fronts so all the look the same. But I had a spare hour last night, not enough time to build a house so I did this.....

I will be adding window decals and I downloaded some window images last night but didn't get the time to print them off etc. So this is the start of my personalisation of my M.U.C.K. buildings and I can see Rae's Cafe being a national chain appearing in most towns and cities.

More M.U.C.K builds

Here are the building's I've made leaving one side of the building missing leaving access to all floors easily during game play.

I place these around the edge of the gaming table where the missing walls don't show up and look odd in photo's, but using them makes the game run a bit more easily and smoothly.

This is one of my favourite builds as it takes up almost a whole 12" square. I use it as two shops and four apartments.

I plan to add some signage and things once I've built a few more buildings to give mnore detail and depth.



Rear view

                                                           







Smaller builds below

Got a little alleyway that can be added if needed

My builds from the M.U.C.K. collection

In this post I will be showing my builds using the M.U.C.K. collection from Carl Stoezel.

I like Stoezel's buildings as you can have a removable interior or leave a side off a building giving access to all floors.

This was my first build from the M.U.C.K. collection and my second build. So I have a certain fondness for it and I used this building as my base for my Hunter family.

For the first three weeks after Z day instead of playing ATZ by moving onto a board. I started in the Hunters apartment on the top floor. I felt it more realistic, after all its your game so make it what you want.

Batrep to follow......

The lift out interior is great but can be a little awkward sometimes. Remember to allow some space to the sides of your playing area for the interiors. 

I used less glue on my second build and it was a lot easier to put together less sticky and this time I did not burn my fingers.

My first paper building

As I've said before I am useless at painting models. The first buildings I purchased were for 28mm scale miniatures and I bought them before I had any models.

Once I purchased some models they seem on the little side. Usuable but small. These cost me about £25 each so I decided that purchasing building models for 28mm gaming wasn't the way to go.

So after looking through a few blogs I stumbled across some blogs about paper buildings. They looked great. Wasn't that keen on the paper trees and few other props but on the whole the buildings looked awesome. Also reading the blogs mounting on foam core was better than using card.

So I searched the internet to find some plans and I found some great free buildings and then I stumbled across Carl Stoezel's buildings and the free sample building he gives away. The abandoned warehouse. The other free buildings I found didn't have internal decorations such as printed walls and floors but the warehouse from Carl did. It also came with very clear instructions  on how to build it.

The first Building I made was the free sample, the abandoned warehouse from Stoezel. I hadn't made any models for over 20 years and it looked fairly easy to construct until glueing together. I learn't a few lessons the hard way.

After building this I decided to purchase and use Stoezel's buildings. I have since purchased the M.U.C.K. collection of buidlings and built some so I can play the game.

From the pictures it looks great but as you look closer you can see the msitakes that I made and the cover up attempts. It doesn't affect game play. I have added walk ways to two sides of the building and plan to make a carpark to cover the other two sides. The sidewalks came from the M.U.C.K. pack.

A few pointers colour in all blue rabbit lines even if they are to be glued into a rabbit as they can still show and practice pratice pratice with a glue gun before using as less is so much more and I discovered that with all my glueing I over applied in every case even when I thought I was being sparse. The exception to this would be I definitely needed to use more spray adhesive as I had to go back and stick the corners back down on most pieces with crazy glue. Also when printing tick the box saying print actual size as my printer always starts with scale down oversized images. This makes the buildings slightly smaller. Doesn't affect gameplay and you may prfer the scaling down version size. But just a warning. Also set the printer setting brighter as the images are quite dark to start with.

My first building is not great but is definitely usable and the mistakes are barely noticeable on a gaming table, the pics speak for themselves I think.

The last pic has got a well known model Ray fighting 2 zombies to show the scale of the building.