CoC Malaya PSC Terrain - Jungle Huts

Captain Albert Ross and Sergeant Holt over watch supplies being moved into their new Jungle Outpost...

I'm continuing to prepare for the TFL's Malaya 1942 campaign and some Jungle Huts are required. Keeping to my limited budget I decided to build my own and loosely based them on the old Airfix Jungle Outpost kit!

My huts were to be made from card, ice-cream sticks and kebab skewers all held together with PVA glue. I cut floors, rooves and the walls out of card. The four wall were all in one long piece and I cut the windows and doorway into them before folding them into a square (scored the bends). To this structure I added some thinly sliced ice-cream stick 'beams'. The rooves were covered in roughly cut ice-cream sticks then the dried walls were fixed to the base which was reinforced with a piece of balsa wood. Where required I added wooden kebab skewers to hold up roof overhangs. Some plastic tube was used to represent the huts support poles. The rooves just rest in place.

Here's how the cut out walls, rooves and floors look for the first two huts...

All four huts assembled, they are actually very sturdy (I still wouldn't like to step on one!)...

A couple of Airfix 1/72 scale Aussie Diggers included...

A lick of paint added...

...and put in a 'jungle' setting...

Hope you like them and you can see how easy it is to build Jungle Huts!