Two more half timbered buildings with yards, more lowland type buildings from the book ( Discovering timber framed buildings by Richard Harris) I referred to in the last half timbered building post,medieval England is divided into two areas ,highland and lowland,you get lowland buildings in highland areas but not the other way around.
The first has a Rendra fence,I added a diagonal strap to another piece of fencing to make the gate . It's a useful kit with various types of fencing.
The outbuilding is part of the venerable Airfix Roman Fort kit which I've had since time immemorial. I've jacked it up with a bit of foamboard and added some balsa doors.
The main building is foamboard,balsa and flooring underlay I use for thatch. I realised that I put chimney pots on the last building, which was a mistake as chimney pots come in with the victorians. So no chimney pots on these! The window pains are aluminium car repair mesh sprayed with black paint,mostly painted with emulsion paint and a bit of ink,sand and flock to be similar to my figure basing.
Its funny but the roof doesn't look that red in real life, the Venetian command are there to add a bit of scale,they still haven't been put away yet!
The next one has close boarding (which indicates higher status) but no outbuilding and a wattle fence,I guess they blew the money on the building and had to make do!
The building materials are pretty much identical to the first.
I like the top shot so I have included one of the other building. Lots primed, painting tray has landsknecht pike fighting with Napoleonic French dragoons for my attention,my nephew's came up for a game of Chosen men, Napoleonic skirmish, and asI only had infantry for my French we proxied in Ben's Russians as French,soundly beaten by Des's British rifles supermen! So French cavalry are storming to the front of the question plus I need to finish assembling and prime my artillery too.
All the best
Iain
Fantastic buildings, Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cyrus, that's very kind of you!
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Great looking piece, Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Jonathan!
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Excellent terrain pieces which will enhance many scenarios and periods.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, I'm hoping so from the 15th century on and I'm even prepared to use them outside of England!
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Great BUAs Iain. I like the look of those a lot.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, I think the yards help, the unit can count as occupying the built up area without sitting on top!
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Excellent terrain sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal, nice of you to say so!
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Great looking terrain Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Mark,I hope to have some Napoleonic types up soon!
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Nicely done Ian...
ReplyDeleteThe underlay works well as thatch...
All the best. Aly
Thanks Alastair, yes it's funny how we repurpose stuff lying around or possibly have held onto for far too long!
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Lovely work, and the fences really set them off.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence,it's a useful kit and gives you some details that you could scratch build but would take time.
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Wonderful scenic pieces Iain, must be very satisfying to create those from scratch. So much nicer than just another MDF kit! You inspire me to attempt a couple of modest 'Spanish' themed dwellings for my 40mm's, should actually be much simpler than what you have achieved here :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee,Im sure you could have fun building some Spanish scenery,at least inspiration would be close!
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That looks awesome! Very well done. I’m impressed by your skills. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew,very kind,Im sure you could build some if you wanted to!
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Lovely character to them both, I particularly like the re-purposing of the Airfix building.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm,yes I'm happy to see something from my childhood back on the table again!
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Lovely buildings and terrain, inspired job!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil! Glad you like them!
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Very nice work!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the time-frame for chimney pots, and put some on my pike & shot era buildings. And they are staying there. (they're for dwarf musketeers and other fantasy figures anyway, and if Tolkien can have hobbits with umbrella stands I can have some anachronisms, too. :)
Thanks Fitz! They're staying on my previous building too! I don't see how you can be anachronistic in fantasy anyway!
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very useful-looking building and great use tooof the old Airfix bits!
ReplyDeleteThanks Zabadak! I figure I'll get a lot of use out of them!
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They look great. I've like the flooring underlay idea, did you invent that? I've never seen it before.
ReplyDeleteYou painted the fences perfect, not the typical brown that never really occurs in real life.
Thanks Baconfat! I haven't seen the underlay used this way before,its just laziness on my part,it means I don't have to make a sub roof,just wack the underlay on!
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Great looking building and foreground with it. Used to have that Airfix Roman Fort in times long past as well.
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Thanks Ross! I've still got the rest of the fort knocking around while I try to work out what to do with it!
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Really like these! Had no idea that the placement of the boards gave indication of the affluence of the building's owner.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai! Yes the timber was the expensive bit, the infill less so,horse dung being a component part of daub (as used in the reconstruction of the globe theatre) and wattle just small branches to give you wattle and daub!
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The fencing and outbuilding finish these off nicely Iain, thanks for the tip on when the chimney pots came in.
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Thanks Pat,I was surprised,I think I got it mixed up because some of the tudor brick chimneys ( like the ones in Framlingham castle Suffolk) resemble pots even though they were in fact chimneys.
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Summer a very busy time , the buildings look excellent🙂
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt,yes it's been a busy summer!
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