Not-So Merry England: progress UD 20/11/24

[Codsticker]

Nice work! I've always liked those Pikemen Fighting With Swords minis but never figured out how to inlude them in my army.  If they had some in armour armed with cut down pikes they would make a good group for assaulting a breach.

[Silent Invader]

It’s taken a while but I’ve finally finished adding the beams and daubing. Was quite an effort to get the daub to look less like a stuck on patch of plasticard. It’s was brushed with thinned Liquid Greenstuff, then scraped back, before getting a brushed on coat of polystyrene glue.



All the buildings are now at this stage so the next step will be an undercoat.

If I can, at the weekend I’ll take a picture of everything so far, which with items co-opted from other projects now includes:

The hamlet
The Grange Barn
A pinfold
Sections of woodland x 3
Sections of copse x 2
Sections of ridge x 4

I also need to decide on roads (perhaps incorporated into a textured map?) and organise some  haystacks.

[Codsticker]

Was quite an effort to get the daub to look less like a stuck on patch of plasticard. It’s was brushed with thinned Liquid Greenstuff, then scraped back, before getting a brushed on coat of polystyrene glue.

Really interesting technique. I look forward to seeing how it paints up.

[Silent Invader]

Really interesting technique. I look forward to seeing how it paints up.

Me too 

[OSHIROmodels]

When you prime it grey ( ) will you post it here?

[Silent Invader]

When you prime it grey ( ) will you post it here?

Will do

[Silent Invader]

Buildings and hamlet baseboard now spray undercoated.

It’s revealed a few places where I need to do a bit more work to hide the underlying texture, which I’ll probably just work a little Liquid GS into.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Looking well good!   

[OSHIROmodels]

Everything looks better with primer 

[Captain Blood]

Well, that’s proved very very effective 

[Ramirez Noname]

Excellent thread - and the undercoated buildings are top-notch.

RMZ

[Blackwolf]

They look great

[Codsticker]

Nothing like a coat of primer to tie everything together- wonderful building.

[levied troop]

Looks like the real thing already, love the wash tub 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all 

I’ve put all the buildings and other terrain onto the approx 5x3 table to see how it lays out. The colours make it hard to see some of the  details but, nonetheless, here it is:

The overview; I’m as yet undecided about roads, am not sure whether to make strips, incorporate into a textured mat, or incorporate into textured foam tiles (though they’d have to be 18” square)



The trees are from the Noch Profi range



I like that for such a small hamlet there are so many different angles of roof







The pinfold, which was a small enclosure used by a village for ‘locking up’ stray livestock  until a release fee was paid by the negligent owner



Looking across scrub to where the pond is sited on the hill (btw, I’m toying with calling the hamlet either Springhill or Pondhill, as the water source is why it’s there)





The observant will have noticed that in the preceding photos I forgot to include the laid hedges and the well





Thanks for looking