The barn is based on a laser cut building I picked up in a pound shop and then clad with balsa. The windows are salvaged from the airfix control tower and the sets in the yard are red lentils!
It's a lowland English type of timber framing, good from the 15th century on , chimneys come in from the 15th century on although looking at mine I might add something to the top of them, I'm finishing off two more timber framed buildings so I could just tweak the chimney on this one.
I've shown some WOTR figures and livestock for scale and am now pretty happy with it,apart from the chimney!
This is a fantastic book if you're interested in timber framed buildings,it's loaded with illustrations and lots of details, really good for a small paperback (sorry couldn't change the orientation of the image on my phone!) Quite a useful piece, from the late 15th century on and even though it's lowland English,I'm happy to use it all over Europe! Next up more terrain, buildings, bridges and trees not sure in what order.
All the best Iain
Great looking farmhouse, Iain! From what is the roof on the main house made?
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, the roof is made from a fibrous wood flooring underlay,I wire brush/sand it,I think it's not bad and has the added benefit that I don't need to build a sub roof as you can glue it straight onto the foamboard. In an earlier post (great Italian wars 2) there is a couple of WIP pictures showing the material.
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What a lovely building, and base, nice one sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Phil!
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Wow, that's a Heinz 57 building on provenance. But the end result is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGuess that's the nature of scratch building! Thanks Peter!
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Wonderful scratch-built terrain!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean!
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Excellent work sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Michal!
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Very nice! I like the pics with the miniatures.
ReplyDeleteThat should look good on the table for sure. What is the base made out of? I might base my building one day so I’m curious. Maybe in the next ten years. 😀
Thanks Stew, the base is just hardboard with sharp sand and red lentils in the yard,painted in emulsion paint and flocked,so when you're youngest is in high school?!
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Great work on the scratch built building!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cyrus, very kind of you!
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Great use of very varied bit and pieces and a very good building as a result.
ReplyDeleteThanks Zabadak,I'm just too tight to build MDF buildings!
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Very nice work on the building! It really looks the part, and even more so in the pics with livestock and/or people.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fitz,it does look better with figures populating it,oh and it was your building post that reminded me to revisit and finish this building, so thanks for that too!
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Ha! I have a timber frame inn I started a dozen (or so) years ago and abandoned... This looks great! Perhaps this will be the inspiration I need to pull it out of the box and finally finish the damned thing!
ReplyDeleteThanks Tim, they need a long gestation I find,a dozen years sounds about right!
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A very well built and unique model Iain and would make a great centre piece for any table.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat, I've got another couple nearing completion to give me a hamlet.
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Scratch built? Looks like a nicely designed kit mate. Bloody good work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai,yes I enjoy bashing foamboard!
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