Not-So Merry England: UD 6/2 Hedge Gates

[Malamute]

Splendid. 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks Gents 

[Silent Invader]

A slight digression. The village is made but some of the campaign tables will also require a church and/or windmill.



I’ve started on the church: a Medieval stone chapel that post-Reformation has been co-opted by the village, with post-Reformation improvements including a brick and timber chancel, stepped brick buttresses, and a new tiled roof with a planked spire.

Still WIP - I have a fair amount of gap filling to do - but this gives an idea:





Edit: The Chapel is a Tabletop Workshop product

I have yet to start the windmill but it will probably be a postmill styled on the one at Great Gransden, Cambs.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks good so far 

You could add some laid flat headstones to the groundwork around the church as earlier graves would most likely not have upstanding headstones.

[voltan]

good use of the Tabletop chapel, makes it a lot more interesting.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps 

You could add some laid flat headstones to the groundwork around the church as earlier graves would most likely not have upstanding headstones.

Good point! Also, laid flat headstones gives me more marked graves without impinging on space for minis WIN WIN!!

And it’s done....

[Warboss Nick]

Those are some good looking improvements to the church, and the groundworks around are also coming along nicely.

[caveadsum1471]

Great looking church wip,I've just gone through all the posts, really impressive, great hedgerows and buildings, all excellent!
Best Iain

[OSHIROmodels]

Yes, they work well 

For future reference the older laid down headstones would be usually next to the church with the more recent stood up ones using new ground away from it.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all 

Now all the messy jobs are done, the church will take a back seat until I break out the GS to concurrently work on other things. Before that, I need to fight the first battle and prep more units for the second.

For future reference the older laid down headstones would be usually next to the church with the more recent stood up ones using new ground away from it.

It’s a very good point though I did find grounds to justify my approach (which I find more pleasing, both aesthetically and practically). My justification (depending on which village on the campaign map the church is part of) is that either:
(1) it’s an abandoned chapel that post-Reformation has been adopted by the village to become a church, and as a chapel it didn’t have a graveyard
(2) the post-Reformation rebuilding work resulted in the dislocation of the closest grave slabs or their reuse into the fabric of the building
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Hence my 'usually' get out clause 

[Silent Invader]

Hence my 'usually' get out clause 

[NurgleHH]

It is always a pleasure to see your projects and play it. This year no chance, but next year (I Hope). Love these Campaign-idea, will follow here. But I think you will also start a WotR-Thing, right?

[Silent Invader]

It is always a pleasure to see your projects and play it. This year no chance, but next year (I Hope). Love these Campaign-idea, will follow here. But I think you will also start a WotR-Thing, right?

Thanks Dirk. Hopefully BLAM next year if the weekend works for me. I recently sold off my WotR collection (they’re now in Akulas GoT project). It is true that I have enough metals to restart but at the moment I’m enjoying the various Daniel Mersey rules and I think they are just too abstract for the shenanigans of the WotR (in any event, as I have Medieval and ECW armies, I’m covered for both Lion Rampant and The Pikemans Lament). They’re distinctly different forces (no guns or cannon / lots of guns and a cannon) whereas the WotR sits somewhere between the two. And if I’m ever going to finish a project I have to focus!!! 

[anevilgiraffe]

Lovely work as ever...

Just a small point, graves and altars usually face the same direction - not always admittedly, but more often as not. Caused me some planning issues with my graveyard.