Building a fantasy village (It's finished. For now)

[The Voivod]

One of the sets I really need in my collection is some fantasy buildings.
The first model I ever placed on this forum was actually a fantasy home-stead.
My gaming preferences have changed a lot and the big solid blocks of terrain don't quite do it anymore.
Making the jump to primarely skirmish games, I need buildings I can get into. And hopefully my skills have since increased.

So here is what I have so far. I mostly done my work on a hotwire cutter, used a roller to get the stone efffect on the lower parts of the stone work, but the chimneys are engraved with a pencil. Some balsa for the doors and windows, as these would be the thinnest part, with card and styrene rods for the hinges.
I'ved tried simple drops of superglue for the nails on the hinges, hopig that shows up when painting.

Next I'll be creating templates for the floors and roofs. I'm planning to paint the floors and buildings seperate, for ease of acces, before glueing. The roofs will remain detachable.

And then the furnishing. I'm going to try not to overdo it, as I am not building dollhouses and there should remain some room for the mini's to move, but there should be enough to give the impression of them being lived in. Wether the village is then in the hight of the harverst festival or abandond due to an undeath invasion, depends on the scenario
though I'm sure to build some ruins and some point as well I assume...

[manic _miner]

 Very nice work on these.

 What setting/game system will you be using them in?

[Little Odo]

A great start to an interesting project.

[The Voivod]

Thank you. I'm a long way off, but the plan is to finish them before the end of the year. Just to try and keep something of a deadline.

@manic _miner
I've backed the Lasting Tales kickstarter, which is for a solo/co-op adventuring campaign. Gives me the proper excuse I've been looking forward to to get al kinds of fantasy terrain.
I'm sure it will be used for games of frostgrave and rangers of shadowdeep and such. As soon as I find the right ruleset my warhammer armies will probably clashing around them as well.

[manic _miner]

 There is a great foam modelling FB group with some really talented people on it.You might get some idea's from them if you are not already part of the group.

 Been looking into the Conquest:Last Argument of Kings game which seem's to look pretty good.Some nice miniatures in the range too.

 The link below takes you to a great site that also might be of interest to you.I have a few boxes of stuff from them that i need to get around to.

 https://www.firedragongames.co.uk/

[The Voivod]

I'll look into Conquest then. thanks.
Facebook is one of those things that awaken the old grognard in me, I'm afraid. I usually quick to adapt to a lot of things but I try to get away from that as far as possible.

Not a lot of work done this week.
I made some templates, on which I drew the size of the actual floor.
This was then covered in a this sheet of foam.
Using a ruler I drew the planking. I didn’t  bother measuring them, as I don’t really care they are the exact same size.
I also cut a small square in the corners, in which I build a trapdoor in the same way as the doors and windows.

The trapdoor was an important gameplay detail for me. What’s down there?
Just a farmers winter supplies?
Secret tunnels connecting the buildigs to move from one to the other?
The lair of an evil dragoncult?


The inserts will not be glued into place for now. This’ll make it easier to paint the interior.

[manic _miner]

 Looking forward to seeing these painted.

[Cacique Caribe]

Whoa, these look mighty fine!
Dan

[Daeothar]

Looking mighty fine there, mate! 

These will be excellent raiding material for my goblins, warriors of chaos or undead... 

[The Voivod]

Thank you kindly.

Yeah, christmas and life got in the way of my hobbytime.
I got a bit of stuff done in between all the seasonal humbug, but not much.

I finally did some measuring and cut some blocks of new foam for the roofs.
You can make these by building just the sides, which saves material.
But this is faster, more sturdy and the material is rather cheap.
It did ask everything I could get out of the proxxon for size, though and in the end, I made them a bit to small.

After cutting the blocks, I put the wire at and angle and created the roof form as I desired. I used different angles on different roofs for some variation.
After fitting I noted they where a bit to small, and stuck some thin slices on the sides and some strips to put them a bit higher on the buildings. No pics of this step, unfortunatly as I was kinda miffed about the delay and wanted it done.
Not the most elegant of solutions, but you won’t see it when the jobs done.

I got some teddy-fur from the net, instead of hunting my own.
Unfortunatly all stores, bar the essentials, are currently closed in the low lands.
I’d’ve prefered to go and see what I was getting as when I opened the packaged the fabric felled a bit light on the hairs. It sufficed, but there are some bald splotches I can see now it’s drying. I’ll see if I can fix this.
I cut an approximate piece, covered the roof in glue and draped the cloth over it.

When this was dry and solid, I watered down some PVA (1:1) and, using a cheap, big brush soaked the cloth.
Using half a cheap comb, I then combed the fibres into shape and now it’s drying.

Messy, messy stuff. My clothes, shoes, beard and living room are covered in stray fibers and my fingers looked like I was turning into an albino werewolf.
Best done in a dedicated hobby space, if you have such luxury

[gamer Mac]

Very nice work

[Seal]

As many have already stated...fantastic work. I’ll be following your progress.

[The Voivod]

I can't find my groove at the moment, so made very little progress.
I was finally ready to put the roofs on the models so I thought I made some nice shots of them.
There's some detailing to be done and openings to hide.
I also made some promissing first steps on the furniture, but that's for another update when I actually have something to show.

I cut some card into the correct sizes for the last of the roofing and added the thatch over it as already shown.
I made the fur covering this way to big and cut it into shape when dry.

Should've made a final piece as one of the roofs has a piece cut out, for the interior fire place.
Glued these into place and cut the holes into the thatch of the roofs.
Then made some pretty pictures.

[Little Odo]

Looking very good so far.

[Melnibonean]

Wow. These are looking very nice.