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

[bluewillow]

Great brushwork and conversions

Cheers
Matt

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all - feedback much appreciated 

[Blackwolf]

Cracking! Love the fellow with the pistol and partizan (sic).

[Silent Invader]

Thanks!   

I’ve started assembling the Manor House. It’s primarily for this ECW project but will also be used all the way through to Victorian. The construct of the house is intended to show its transition through the ages: from simple defensive round tower to comfortable country seat.

The main parts are a tower and two wall kits from Tabletop Workshop plus two GW Lakeland Houses. To replace the arrow slits in the castle sections, I’ve cut-in resin windows by OSHIRO modelterrain. Much work still to do to the house, including adding the dormers and chimneys, and ‘plastering’ and gap filling.

BTW, the house is intended to complement the already completed hamlet, also made from GW Lakeside Houses and which as a reminder looks like this:





The main house with a couple of outbuildings will be based on a board the same size as the hamlet. The current plan is for something like this, with wrought iron entrance gates, a cobbled courtyard in front of the main house, then a stables, kitchen and kitchen garden over the low wall.











I’ll add extra width to the baseboard to introduce curves to the base plus a moat with bridges.

I have extra wall sections and much hedge, with which to create estate boundaries.

[Malamute]

That's going to look great.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking good 

[DintheDin]

Very promising to be one of your most outstanding jobs!

[Elk101]

That's looking great, I like the composition.

[Charlie_]

Excellen! With hedges and such around it, that's going to be the perfect setting for skirmish gaming.

The walls and gates are from Debris of War, aren't they? I've admired them for a whiile.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all - much appreciated 

The walls and gates are from Debris of War, aren't they? I've admired them for a whiile.

Yes indeed. They were great to deal with.

[Blackwolf]

Wow! Fantastic 

[Ranthony]

This looks very much like the layout of a decorative restoration project I undertook on an estate in Meopham, Kent.
Amazing craft work on your part, it really does have an authentic feel.

The owner informed me that her home, with adjoining tower, was actually fortified during the English civil war and this makes your work all the more interesting for me.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Cheers

Ry

[Codsticker]

Really stupendous, even at this stage without any paint.

[jon_1066]

Looking grand. 

Is there any mileage in using the main building tower and wall as part of the initial outer wall rather than putting it at an angle to the outer wall?  If you put the range on the opposite side (so pointing forward) it would then naturally form two partial sides of the complex.  Kind of like Stokesay Castle.  The outer wall could then fill in the remaining curtain (perhaps with a gate house?) and then be extended with other courts.  This would aid the appearance of "old castle transmogrified into a manor house."

[Silent Invader]

Thanks folks for the feedback/comments. Always very helpful with a project like this. 

Is there any mileage in using the main building tower and wall as part of the initial outer wall rather than putting it at an angle to the outer wall?  If you put the range on the opposite side (so pointing forward) it would then naturally form two partial sides of the complex.  Kind of like Stokesay Castle.  The outer wall could then fill in the remaining curtain (perhaps with a gate house?) and then be extended with other courts.  This would aid the appearance of "old castle transmogrified into a manor house."

Hmmmmm. I’ll have a ponder