Following on from before, a bit more progress plus a lot of finished pieces.
These shots give a better idea of the layout of the thatched elements (the gap between the two small houses will become part of a garden). The two parts can also be brought together for a poorer village, in which case the tiled barn will be switched out for a thatched one.
PS: I have a small church in the same style that is now surplus and so will be going into the bazaar
The finished felled copse, the reworked communal privy and a couple of other bits.
The finished hedges, about 2.8m worth (they’ll need a spray of mat sealer to take off some glue shine, when I can go to the shop to buy some). In the 16thC and 17thC Essex hedges were big, so these are quite significant obstacles.
I’m intending to play a “ladder” campaign that will progress along a road, and so I’m aiming for a mix of table types representative of the key points along the route. The campaign is set in North Essex bordering onto Suffolk, the so-called Constable Country. (In these photos I’ve included minis but I have only the 6 painted horse so I’ve had to use an unpainted foot for scale)
A pastoral setting:
There’s a mini between the corn rows in the top shot:
A hold the road setting, with a beacon to alert when things are getting dodgy:
Hmmm, on reflection I need some low-down mud splatter on the tents.
That’s it for the mo, just the modifications to the thatched bases to do then I’ll set up to photograph some village layouts, work up the campaign map, and switch over to painting minis.