Mediterranean Farm - updated 26th May: Farmhouse finshed !

[powerfrog99]

At Salute last year I purchased Sarissa-Precision's mediterranean farm model, which I found to be excellently fitting to in my Wargods of Olympus collection. After nearly 1 1/5 years I started to work on it. Here some of my pictures of different work phases.
I am really happy about the perfect fitting of all the parts, it's really a high level of precision achieved here. The setup and design of the building I like very much :-)

However after assembly it was clear for me some tuning needed to be done, as the paper roofs, the smooth MDF walls and the paving in the courtyard were not so much to my liking.

In the next posts I'll show my measures how to customize that building.

cheers Thomas

[Codsticker]

Looks a great structure to start with. I look forward to what you do with it.

[princeman]

Looks nice. Where did you get the weights from?
Greg

[pallard]

This is a youngster question. Old hands would  recognize ancient market  weights from back in the days...
Philippe

[powerfrog99]

Yes, these are surplus weights from work which I was allowed to take home long while ago. They come in handy to keep things in place during glueing etc.

The mdf structure is great and after assembly I was still very motivated to go ahead. For the roofs I did consider a number of different ways like cutting cardboard tiles or deepdrawn plastic sheets. In the end I favored a Hirst Arts mould to cast roman style tiles, as I had very good experienes with theses moulds when building my Egyptian and Trojan temples.

So I reinforced the cardboard roofs with mdf on the lower side and then started to glue the cast tiles on top.

[Warboss Nick]

 Nice work! Will probably also look good for Napoleonic Peninsular (or any other Mediterranean setting).

Interesting to see the model has cardboard roofs as other sets have MDF roofs.

[Thargor]

I think they've done card rooves for their whole Mediterranean range.  I bought a small building with some extra walls to make an enclosed compound and that has a card roof with the same pattern of tiles.

[Burnin Coal]

That’s a vast improvement already - great job ! Look forward to seeing what else you do with it

[sgzleada71]

cool

[powerfrog99]

Thanks for your interest 
Here are some more details about the tiles.
The thing with the tiles is that they are made for large areas which use a number of casts side by side. However at the edges I did not like this and so decided to rework to create a more realistic look.

A needle file and a sharp cutter knife helped me in this a little bit boring job.

[Burnin Coal]

  Lovely work ! Very nice attention to detail...paintjob is spot on

[Steam Flunky]

Great work!

[Grass-Hopper]

Really nice work on those roof tiles. Looking forward to seeing how this project continues.

[Mindenbrush]

Attention to detail makes all the difference 👍

[AndrewBeasley]

I thought at first the tiles where 'chunky' but they paint up superbly well - excellent job.


As for:
After nearly 1 1/5 years I started

Should that have read - 'I rapidly started'?