28mm ECW/Medieval Terrain

[mrtn]

Nice houses.

[Codsticker]

Thanks mrtn.

I finished the other two houses in the Tabletop Workshop catalogue: the Town House and the Merchant's House.

The Town House comes with, what I think is, a slate roof. A little hard to tell as the shape of the roofing suggests either tile or slate but it has linear texture like a cedar shingle.

I decided the merchant's house would be older daub so I made stronger water stains and added faint mold along the bottom.

I switched up my daub approach as I am still not completely happy with it.

Before the building was finished I took a few shots of the interior of the Merchant's House.

The roof and second floor pop off allowing access.

Here is a 28mm plastic musketeer for scale; you can see he is a little tall.

Just for the sake of completing the set, a couple of weeks ago I ordered the Stable and Medieval Chapel from Warlord Games. As I am still awaiting stuff from the UK I ordered in February I am not expecting them anytime soon...

[Captain Brown]

Very nice Codsticker.

I assume that one side is removable and that is why you painted the interior...not just because you could see it through the windows.

Cheers,

CB

[Codsticker]

Thanks CB. Actually the roof lifts off and the second floor comes out. I just had it semi-assembled when I took the picture.

[Codsticker]

Going through my backlog of un-built kits I uncovered a second Renedra Ramshackle Barn (the first one I built here).

The kit comes with a tile roof but as I was building this one for 17thC and I wanted it to fit in with the other rural buildings I tried my hand at a thatch roof, using the hobby standard fake fur.

Not entirely pleased with the result, but acceptable as the barn is "ramshackle"; I would like to give it a couple more attempts before I try an alternative method.

While googling old thatch roofs, photos of roofs with plants growing in them showed up and as the barn is in disrepair I decided to add some.


The Perry Miniatures cottage a few posts back comes with a fence made of hurdles; as I didn't use it with the cottage I decided to turn it into a pinfold.

A pinfold is essentially the olden days version of the pound; if your animals strayed they would get locked in there and you would have to pay a fine to get them out.

I should have included a couple of cattle for scale but I haven't any painted yet. If you squint you can see a horse at far end of the pinfold in the photo below (he'd pop out of there like t was nothing...).

[Captain Brown]

Very nice terrain Codsticker.

Cheers,

CB

[Colonel Jacka]

CS,

Thatch looks great very rural, nice moss mate.

[nitromors]

Looks great to me

[DarthSte]

Excellent work!

[Codsticker]

Thank you for the compliments guys, I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

[mrtn]

That barn looks even more ramshackle than it usually does!
Funilly enough I'm painting that wattle fence at the moment, and I just bought the Tabletop Workshop Cottage and Barn (North Star had a sale), so I'll probably paint them soon too.
Nice work.

[Codsticker]

That barn looks even more ramshackle than it usually does

Excellent!

Those Tabletop Workshop buildings are well designed- you can paint them up very simply and quickly and they will still look good.

[Codsticker]

Two more Tabletop Workshop buildings out of the way: the barn and the stable.

The barn I actually painted and finished about 3 years ago.

The kits all use the same roof pieces (the town house excepted), end walls (merchant's house excepted) and floor - it's the long walls that make each kit different.

With the stable I tried to replicate the daub colouring of the Perry's cottage (I should have wrote it down...); I think I got pretty close. One thing I regret is not filling in the tabs in the end walls with putty; they really stand out in the close up photos- not so noticeable on the table though.

The roof came out a little too light grey for my liking- I think I will give it a glaze with a dark brown just to warm it up a bit.

[Little Joe]

Very nice scenic images of great terrain.

[MDSW]

So great!!! - can we get a pic of your entire table?? I think that would be a real treat!

[Codsticker]

Thank you guys.

So great!!! - can we get a pic of your entire table?? I think that would be a real treat!

I do have plans to take some pictures with the whole village set up; I may get around to that this coming weekend.

[Ragsta]

Such lovely lovely terrain! And from what I can tell your hobbying area looks rather respectable too!

[Captain Brown]

With the stable I tried to replicate the daub colouring of the Perry's cottage (I should have wrote it down...); I think I got pretty close. One thing I regret is not filling in the tabs in the end walls with putty; they really stand out in the close up photos- not so noticeable on the table though.

Add some green moss made of green stuff over the tabs and they will vanish under perfectly normal growth.

My two cents,

CB

[Codsticker]

Add some green moss made of green stuff over the tabs and they will vanish under perfectly normal growth.

My two cents,

CB

Good idea. Or maybe I should plant some shrubs at those corners.

[mrtn]

Nice work. I'm in the process of painting my houses, and I just filled in the gable tabs with greenstuff, after painting the rest of the houses. I'm sure you can do the same with yours.

As to the grey roof I think it looks realistic, means that not all roofs are the same age in your village.