SI's Bonnie Scotland, 17thC: 2/9 tower house with village

[Silent Invader]

The latest aquisition for the project, the three pieces by Hudson & Allen (from Vatican Enterprises) that comprise their Scottish Village:





These will be based up like the other pieces, and I shall probably rework the roofs with milliput so that all of the buildings match.

[Charlie_]

Awesome! Can I ask, did you get them direct from Vatican Enterprises recently?

[Silent Invader]

Awesome! Can I ask, did you get them direct from Vatican Enterprises recently?

I did

[Charlie_]

Awesome, good to know he is still in business and they are still available - his website doesn't inspire confidence!

[Malamute]

Quite the settlement you’re building.

[Silent Invader]

Awesome, good to know he is still in business and they are still available - his website doesn't inspire confidence!

Drop him an email and if he has what you want it might work out. I found him very reasonable and reliable to deal with. My package was sent via the postal system, being delivered here by Royal Mail. Postage cost was about 30% of the order but I very much wanted the buildings. I also expected to incur import charges on delivery but it didn't happen.

[Silent Invader]

Quite the settlement you’re building.

It's an estate agents dream

[rumacara]

Soon it will be a town...
Its looking great.

[Silent Invader]

  and thank you Rui

I?ve now seen the Any Scale version. It?s not as finessed but with a modified roof and perhaps accompanied on a tile by another of the Fogou models, they'd add an interesting 8th and 9th houses to the village 

[Malamute]

It’s an estate agents dream

Most definitely, it looks like a sought after location with delightful rural views.

[carlos marighela]

It's certainly a step up from Clune Park or Easterhouse.

[Vagabond]

Just caught up on your progress so far and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion and thought process.
Bonnets appear to be wool, dyed originally with woad and laterly indigo. This gives some lovely shade variations on a central colour although I couldn't see any significant colour difference between the 2 dyes. Presumably Indigo is either cheaper and easier to obtain and work or it's more colourfast.
Your black houses look superb, the painted purchased ones match your original build closely although I  think I prefer your thatch detail better. I liked the original turf roof as well but can see why you'd want them all to be a similar style.
Back drop is brilliant, makes a huge difference to the overall pictures of the table, full marks for that, I  use wings or side pieces as well as a back piece which is useful for ingame pictures but won't suit a multiplayer game because it's more fiddly to play with.
As Lon said, excellent in all sorts of ways.
Cheers

[Constable Bertrand]

OOh those Vatican pieces with built in terrain basses are going to look amazing once you've gone over them Steve! 

Cheers
Matt

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps for your comments (and with apologies to Carlos and Vagabond, for my tardiness: I'm sorry that I missed your replies).

I also prefer my thatch Vagabond, simply because the other 3 being conversions of the same model are so 'samey'. I'll also be thatching the Vatican buildings to bring them together. I agree that backdrops aren't at all practical for gaming, though without it there's a glazed door behind, the presence of which tends to sully images. It's also a nice picture to have on the gamesroom wall and I'm sure I'll make a similar lowland English scene at some point.



And yes Matt, I'm very excited to have got hold of the Vatican pieces.    Have had my eye on them for years.

[Silent Invader]

Gosh, a year since I last updated.

Since then, not a lot has happened though I did manage to play a game against Captain Blood, in which he managed to steal cattle from under me while wiping me out (we used Pikeman's Lament with alterations for stealing stuff)

More recently, I'm turning my bands of lowlanders into a Covenanter Army with which to play Never Mind The Muskets. I have much to do and will update this thread with progress.

In the meantime, photos of that aforementioned game:































We also played a more conventional game  of PL, using the  Clansmen rule for a bit of unpredictable excitement, though I have few photos and can't remember who won!