Fortified farmhouse

[Eric the Shed]

Looking good

[Silent Invader]

Thanks guys

I use no more nails to create the flint and mortar effect, simply smearing on then poking it around with a tooth pick.  I used this technique on the church that can be seen in this photo by Captain Blood.

[Silent Invader]

Final update on this thread for today....

.... Progress with the water mill.  It will be a small affair in wattle & daub with a thatched roof.  It will also be an undershot wheel as my boards don't have a falling water level.  When I have sorted out where the wheel will be fixed to the building, I'll have to cut a section  of it away to suggest immersion in water.

The wheel is being made from card hardened with superglue.

[OSHIROmodels]

The wheel is being made from card hardened with superglue.

Other materials are available mate that are less harmful 

cheers

James

[Mason]

"Other materials are available mate that are less harmful"

...said the LAF's newly appointed Health and Safety Officer.
 

[Captain Blood]

Cooking on gas!

[Silent Invader]

Other materials are available mate that are less harmful 

cheers

James

I've been pondering this wheel for about 9 months but naturally have started the build with only about 9 days to go!  Clearly I need to be a tad better organised to build my "friend with a laser cutter" into the critical path!!! 

[Silent Invader]

Water wheel pretty much done....




.... Have also started on the miller's cottage/shack/hovel

[OSHIROmodels]

Does the job mate 

Hate to see your lungs though 

cheers

James

[DoctorPete]

This is really a great build!  Looking forward to seeing it painted.   

[Silent Invader]

Hate to see your lungs though 

cheers

James

 

As a kid my pocket money job was to burn waste plastic, i worked in the city for decades with all the pollution, then I did forestry and bushcraft and spent many an hour sucking in wood smoke, and now I use a lot of superglue and cast molten metal......

On the plus side, my activities for the last few consecutive Sundays have been (starting with the most recent).....

Ran 5 miles
Ascended Snowdon
Ran in a 10k race
Walked the Seven Sisters & Friston Forest Circuit
Cycled 29 miles

That's just the Sundays.  During the week I also walk the dogs, run 2 or 3 times, go to a climbing wall, ...

...... It's been pretty full pelt since our surfing/running/bouldering holiday in August

 

PS: and I don't smoke cigars!

[OSHIROmodels]

Ooo, get you 

 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

Ooo, get you 

 

cheers

James

 

I have an incentive you don't James, next year I hit the big 50 

[OSHIROmodels]

I have an incentive you don't James, next year I hit the big 50 

I would have said you don't look a day over 49 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

Not much to show for today's progress but I have got a kinda interesting image.

The farmhouse will be the largest building on the WotR table but it is dwarfed by the houses that will host my post apoc game