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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Bob Murch on 29 August 2015, 06:34:46 PM
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I've been experimenting with using real birch bark (from dead trees) to construct a village for Flint & Feather.
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Looks like an extremely conclusive experiment to me 8)
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Looks like an extremely conclusive experiment to me 8)
Agreed.
It certainly seems like a successful operation.
Top notch.
:-* :-*
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Salut
Very nice :o
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That looks very natural. Did you use the bark as is or did you add paint or washes afterwards?
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Very Sweet! Nice results. I'm from the area where most the FIW was fought and when I started to learn about the war for gaming, I began collecting birch bark whenever I found it on the ground. About 8 years later and I haven't done a thing with it and I pitched it out in a cleaning session last year.
Your results are great! Keep it up!
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This is the natural colour of the bark. I used the inside face of the bark though. The white side faces in. I thought this would give the longhouse a weathered look.
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Very nice results, congratulations!
But is bark suficiently tough for these kind of models?
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That definitely looks like an idea worth stealing.
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Very nicely done!
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I rather like that.
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Check out our Flint and Feather Blog at http://flintandfeatherplaytest.blogspot.ca/ (http://flintandfeatherplaytest.blogspot.ca/)
This week we posted about the Longhouse.
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Your longhouse looks great! Hope it doesn't begin to deteriorate on you, though. Did you seal it somehow?
Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
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Your longhouse looks great! Hope it doesn't begin to deteriorate on you, though. Did you seal it somehow?
I built a smaller, simpler birch bark longhouse back when I sculpted the original Flint and Feather range for RAFM. that was 30 years ago now and I still have it very much intact. Keep the model dry and it should age just fine.
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I built a smaller, simpler birch bark longhouse back when I sculpted the original Flint and Feather range for RAFM. that was 30 years ago now and I still have it very much intact. Keep the model dry and it should age just fine.
Good grief -- 30 years! The native Americans must have know what they were doing when they chose that as their building material...! I would have assumed it would have dried out and become brittle and flaked off, bit by bit.
I have been using the Acheson Creations resin models, which are inexpensive and look great on the tabletop. They don't quite have that same authenticity as a scratch-built birch bark one, though...!
(http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww213/mikedemana/Native%20Americans/CincyconOhioFrontier_HuntersReturn_zps5nueoqt0.jpg)
Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
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I'm intrigued by the number of longhouse styles.
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I find myself intrigued by the variety of longhouse styles at the various museum sites.
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A few more.
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And more
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I've been experimenting with using real birch bark (from dead trees) to construct a village for Flint & Feather.
That is simply brilliant. Fantastic work!
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Here is a bark wigwam scratch build. I'm enjoying seeing what can be built from found materials.
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Wowwwwwwwww... :-*
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Genius!
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That looks amazing...so lifelike and 3D!
Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
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Great but it that must takes too much Time to build , no ?
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Brilliant!
8) 8)
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Mother Nature is quite the engineer and provider of raw materials. Add a little human ingenuity and . . . voilà! Congrats on excellent scratch-builds!
Bests,
Chris
cluckamok.blogspot.com