My Fantasy town WIP (many pics)

[Thantsants]

I keep searching for nice resin fantasy buildings and drooling over the Tabletop World stuff in particular, but I should try out making some of my own one day - especially as yours look so great 

[dijit]

Cracking stuff and great work that they also fold up too!
Lovely.
Duncan

[Theomar Pius]

Cool stuff, I like the gazebo in particular.

[Sangennaru]

all the folding idea is simply brilliant! That's quite a changer solution for storage of build buildings!

[magokiron]

I love these and this is a fantastic solution to one of my problems (space).

Certaily, storage space is a common problem, so I design pretty much all my scenery to fold flat so it doesn't take so many space when not in use. Even my gaming table can be taken apart and stored against a wall 

Are the walls just made out of cereal boxes or is is more of an "industrial" kind of cardboard / craftboard used?

The walls are made from a strong carboard about 1mm thick, but if you only have "cereal package" cardboard, you may glue 2 or even 3 layers to get a strong enough material. IF YOU DO THAT, I'll recommend glueing each layer with the "grain" of the cardboard at an angle with the preceding layer for maximum resistance.

I would love to see some work in progress shots assuming you are planning on more buildings, or a tutorial, please.

A tutorial is something I have been asked a couple of times, and I may do one some day (when I start my own blog, I guess), but when I'm working in those buildings I ussually just get carried away and forgot to take any pictures


Thank you to all for your kind comments and interest.

More pics of the painted buildings soon.

Best wishes.

[sukhe_bator]

Impressive designing - and flat pack as well! As one who builds AND has storage problems despite making my edifices modular - I salute you!

[Hobbit]

I live in an area with a fair share of half-timbered buildings. Whilst most are simply black and white sometimes you see the "white" area in a pale biscuit colour - this is possibly fresh unpainted mud/plaster. I've also seen a pale lemon yellow - no idea how this might have been created with medieval style technology - and a sort of dark dusky pink. The latter could be obtained by mixing ox blood into the plaster. It's got to be worth doing a google image search.

[jp1885]

I really like the flat-pack idea. Can't wait to see these painted!

[The Voivod]

Awesome stuff.
I'm struggling to get a buidling done in 2 weeks, so you doing this in a few days makes me feel like a slacker.

[sukhe_bator]

Black beams on half-timbered houses are a largely modern phenomena - mostly Victorian. The vast majority of oak frames were left their natural colour and went greyish with age. They became rock hard in any case - ask anyone who has ever tried to renovate an old building "Post-Medieval Wood 1 - Tungsten carbide drillbit 0". Salting the daub apart from making it more fireresistant also lent a sandy cream tinge to the plaster. Google Lavenham in Suffolk...

[dijit]

Black beams on half-timbered houses are a largely modern phenomena - mostly Victorian. The vast majority of oak frames were left their natural colour and went greyish with age. They became rock hard in any case - ask anyone who has ever tried to renovate an old building "Post-Medieval Wood 1 - Tungsten carbide drillbit 0". Salting the daub apart from making it more fireresistant also lent a sandy cream tinge to the plaster. Google Lavenham in Suffolk...

I never realised that, thanks for the info.
How did salting the daub help make it more fireresistant?

[max]

The vast majority of oak frames were left their natural colour and went greyish with age. They became rock hard in any case - ask anyone who has ever tried to renovate an old building "Post-Medieval Wood 1 - Tungsten carbide drillbit 0".

Very true,  live in an old house, and the beams have been up since 1490 odd and are still solid.

[Blackwolf]

Wow! Lovely work,look forward to seeing them painted

[magokiron]

I live in an area with a fair share of half-timbered buildings. Whilst most are simply black and white sometimes you see the "white" area in a pale biscuit colour - this is possibly fresh unpainted mud/plaster. I've also seen a pale lemon yellow - no idea how this might have been created with medieval style technology - and a sort of dark dusky pink. The latter could be obtained by mixing ox blood into the plaster. It's got to be worth doing a google image search.

Thank you very much.

This kind of "first hand" info is extremely valuable to me, as I live in Mexico and don't have any building like that around.

A pale lemon yellow will make the town very colorful, but I doubt if I want to have pink houses in my "manly" fantasy town 

Black beams on half-timbered houses are a largely modern phenomena - mostly Victorian. The vast majority of oak frames were left their natural colour and went greyish with age. They became rock hard in any case - ask anyone who has ever tried to renovate an old building "Post-Medieval Wood 1 - Tungsten carbide drillbit 0". Salting the daub apart from making it more fireresistant also lent a sandy cream tinge to the plaster. Google Lavenham in Suffolk...

Can you explain this a little more? Thanks you.

First building, church and gazebo already painted, and 2 more buildings midway.

Hope to have good light tomorrow to take some pics.

To all of you, thanks for your comments.

Best wishes.

[elysium64]

Lovely models so far, and like everybody else impressed with the fold down design. If I am not to late check this website for inspiration, the museum is just around the corner from me, and I regularly visit, if you want any more photo's let me know and I will get some on my next visit.
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/