Customs House/toll booth/Harbour master

[gamer Mac]

Now that the LPL is over I have some time on my hands.
I want to build a harbour but it will be quite generic to cover games from the 17th centaury onwards. To be used for Pulp games, VSF and maybe Pirates, Argh.
The first building is a customs house based on one in Stone haven in Scotland. I chose this because of it's interesting shape and it suited the building material I had handy. The building could be used for any of the things in the title.
As usual it will be built out of my favourite material, Pizza trays.

The based is hardboard, scored to look like planks in the interior of the building.
The field stone brick work is scored with a sharp point.
Ground floor



Inside


Back


Bits cut out for the first floor. Brick work has been started in this photo


Used a bit of card, scored to looks like planks for the first level floor.


Two floor together. Front




As you can see in the above picture I have already made the gabbled ends of the roof. On to cutting out a couple of hundered slates for the roof now.
And to work out how to curve my foam for the yard wall.

[Malamute]

Lookiing good so far

[Andym]

Looks great so far! Do you have a reference picture you can post to show us where your going with this?

What about actually building the wall? If your going to the length of cutting thousands of tiles why not cut hundreds of bricks as well and lay them like a real wall?

BTW are you going to manage to finish this for our game tonight? You'd better get cracking!!

[gamer Mac]

Not much chance of getting it finished for tonight, sorry

[thejammedgatling]

looks like you have a lot of pizza to eat in the near future..

looking good so far,,hats off for the quality of that stonework scoring
will you keep the colours as in the pics?

[gamer Mac]

looks like you have a lot of pizza to eat in the near future..

looking good so far,,hats off for the quality of that stonework scoring
will you keep the colours as in the pics?

Yes if I can work out what colours they are

[Silent Invader]

Looking very nice GM!

It always amuses me that your brother is hot on your tail with encouragement and suggestions! 

[Ramirez Noname]

Hi,

That's a nice building your putting together there, especially the "stepped gable" detail.

I had a similar idea a couple of years back and photographed the Customs House in Exeter -

... and I managed to get a photo of the floor plan

... and a cannon

... and I have also managed to get a lot of "depron" sheet. Now all I need is some time 

Looking forward to seeing the completed piece - great work GM.

Ramirez

[Thunderchicken]

Looking good. When you've worked out how to bend the foam I'm all eyes and ears as I need to do something similar.

To be used for Pulp games, VSF and maybe Pirates, Argh.

Were you strangled at the end of this sentence?

[zizi666]

Were you strangled at the end of this sentence?

I think he ment to say : Arrr! 
for more pirate vocabulary you should check out http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html 

[gamer Mac]

I think he ment to say : Arrr! 
for more pirate vocabulary you should check out http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html 

Excellent link thank you 
It must just be a translation problem between Scottish and English, of course I meant to say Arrr

[gamer Mac]

Customs house build is finished now.
Just some WIP pictures













Finished house


Then when I started to paint it I had a bit of a disaster.
Something must have changed in the foam I use because some of it reacted badly to the spray paint. Only some of it though, other bits are fine, weird.







I am going to paint is anyway to see what it looks like. A lot looks not to bad just a bit rougher than the normal.

[Andym]

Wow! I go away for a couple of days and you come up with this!!

I don't know if it's appropriate for seaside buildings, but what  about adding ivy or some over type of climbing plant to cover the damage?

[Silent Invader]

That's a shame GM but it looks like it might be recoverable.  Good luck.   

[OSHIROmodels]

Shame about the paint, it might be a mix of old foam and new foam when in a liquid state, hence the disparity of nastiness 

Put some paint on it anyhow and let's have a look 

cheers

James