Lead Adventure Forum
Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Patrice on September 24, 2015, 01:14:46 AM
-
First attempts for a French plantation in Saint Domingue (Hispaniola) c.1700, according to historical sources, for a pirate game this week-end.
Still many details and shades to add...
(Aaargh as usual I can never finish things properly).
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/biennofont-1.jpg)
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/biennofont-2.jpg)
Barn for drying tobacco :
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/biennofont-3.jpg)
-
Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing more - this will be great inspiration for my Haitian Revolution games...
-
This was finished for the game (although still lacking many details...):
Left to right: slaves huts, tobacco shed, master's house, outdoor kitchen, tobacco field, sugarcane mill, indigo basins with well sweep.
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/DSC07056)
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/DSC07060.jpg)
(I had made the mill and the basins long ago but the basins looked ridiculous without the hill I made for them last week).
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/DSC07061.jpg)
-
Interesting project
Where are you getting the inspiration from?
-
Keep at it - it's a good start.
-
Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing more - this will be great inspiration for my Haitian Revolution games...
You may want later references for the 1790s. According to historical sources, c.1700 designs were still crude and practical; it seems that most French planters houses did not add a gallery (of Spanish design) before the 1730's, and they became richer in the late 18th century.
Interesting project
Where are you getting the inspiration from?
:D
In French, with some interesting pictures (...but you could probably find some equivalents in English about former British colonies?)
— Modern studies, historians and/or archeologists:
« Maisons de maître et habitations coloniales dans les anciens territoires français de l’Amérique tropicale » (revue In Situ)
http://insitu.revues.org/2362
« La société d'habitation : une civilisation historique » ("créole" culture course for teachers)
http://kapeskreyol.potomitan.info/dissertation2.php
http://kapeskreyol.potomitan.info/dissertation3.php
« La production d’indigo en Guadeloupe au XVIIème et
XVIIIème siècle »
http://medieval-europe-paris-2007.univ-paris1.fr/T.Yvon.pdf
« Les indigoteries de Marie-Galante »
http://www.journals4free.com/link.jsp?l=36445781
modern pictures,
https://lamaisondelindigo.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/indigoterie-a-marie-galante1-trace-de-lest/
etc...
— Books and drawings of the time, etc...
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/indigoterie.jpg)
(http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/biennofont/indigoterie2.bmp)
Keep at it - it's a good start.
Thanks - but if you know me, it's probably no more than a start... :-X
I play on very large tables so I can rarely improve things (although I would like to) because there are so many other things to do... and to store, and to carry...
Pictures of the game table last week-end, 1.80m x 4 m, the plantation is at the far end (I'll post an AAR later):
(http://argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/scorfel2015/DSC07049)
(http://argad-bzh.fr/argad/sk/scorfel2015/DSC07104)