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Offline SgtPerry

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Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« on: March 05, 2011, 07:11:46 PM »
I painted three farmhouses and several fences from Total Battle Miniatures. The buildings are really great with a lift-off roof and a detailed interior.

http://perrysheroes.free.fr/spip.php?article365



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Offline Brummie

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2011, 10:05:04 PM »
Those would be grand for so much stuff! And nice lay out! Really want to purchase some such buildings myself, very inspiring! Thank you for showing these!

Offline Comsquare

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2011, 10:25:38 PM »
Brummie

They are Gripping Beast buildings and at the moment out of stock. I wanted some myself and have just been on their site.

Sorry, but you're wrong.
As SgtPerry said, they are from Total Battle Miniatures.

http://www.totalbattleminiatures.com/




Offline Sangennaru

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 05:00:13 PM »
those are really well painted! the sculpts are nice, but not excellent, but you made them really good!!!

Offline Tas

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 07:54:40 PM »
Great stuff indeed - I am laboriously scratchbuilding two DA houses at the moment.  Wish I'd seen these babies first

And you've brought them to life brilliantly - makes me want to take up my sword to go burn and pillage!

Offline SgtPerry

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2011, 08:30:25 AM »
Thatched roofs are the (at least my) major problem with DA buildings. I have no problem designing the walls, stone or half timbered ones but the roofs...

I may try this method

http://ryan.skow.org/city/greentree/ThatchedRoof.html

Olivier

Offline duhamel

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2011, 10:10:58 AM »
Thatched roofs are the (at least my) major problem with DA buildings. I have no problem designing the walls, stone or half timbered ones but the roofs...

I may try this method

http://ryan.skow.org/city/greentree/ThatchedRoof.html

Olivier

why not just use synthetic fur. it works fine, you just have to find the right one.


pourquoi ne pas simplement utiliser de la fourrure synthétique. cela fonctionne très bien, il suffit juste de trouver la bonne.
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Offline Too Bo Coo

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2014, 12:12:21 AM »
Very nice!
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Offline Atheling

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2014, 07:08:35 AM »
Thatched roofs are the (at least my) major problem with DA buildings. I have no problem designing the walls, stone or half timbered ones but the roofs...

I may try this method

http://ryan.skow.org/city/greentree/ThatchedRoof.html

Olivier

That looks to be the best method in my opinion mon ami  8).

Darrell.

Offline Dalauppror

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2014, 08:00:53 AM »
Looking realy good !

Offline dm

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2014, 08:23:24 AM »
Very nice indeed 8) 8) 8) 8)

Offline sukhe_bator

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2014, 11:48:54 AM »
Beautifully done sir, very atmospheric. I'm loving the tonal qualities on the thatching and the daub walls, though I personally subscribe more to the muckier 'Monty Python & the Holy Grail' medieval world view grunge look. Too much grass and not enough midden!
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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2014, 02:09:59 PM »
That looks to be the best method in my opinion mon ami  8).

Darrell.

Unfortunately, I could never find a towel that fit the purpose, only fancy fabrics with knots and whatnot. Finally, I found a duster that has just the right texture - I used it on all those buildings (they are 15mm, though):
http://wargamingraft.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/pic5.jpg[/img]]
So, have a look at your local household supply store.
Cheers,
Shandy

P.S.: I have one 15mm building by Total Battle Miniatures, looks very nice! Yours is better painted, though  :)

Offline emosbur

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2014, 01:21:11 AM »

Offline Turbo-Ben

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Re: Dark Ages / Early Medieval Farmhouses
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2014, 07:32:34 AM »
Some time ago I built 6 thatched houses for my "Bruegelburg" project.
They're not as nice as the ones in the original post but I think the towel method looks also quite good!


 

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