Building a medieval church (More pictures of the Finished church 140303)

[Dalauppror]

I still havent painted more then 4 mounted minis this year due to my neck problem, but at least I manage to start the build of a Medieval Church.

During april it have been 550 years sins the Bishop of Linköping with the Swedish rebel forces managed to beat the Danish King and the Union forces at the Battle at Haraker, just outside of Västerås in Sweden. More about the battle in 1464 later on, but I need a church as that was a significant part of the battlefield.

Unfortunate the today church in Haraker look nothing like the medieval one as it have gone through several addons. But with the information I got from several sources like historical accounts and excavation reports for example I will tyr to build me a Medieval Haraker church...


The Haraker Church today in a 1795 design...

The First church in Haraker was probably a wooden one built in the 12th century, the first Stone church was built during the 14th century and during my gaming period the i.e. 1450-1480 the church did go throught a major rebuild, they got a brick ceiling, new brick porch and a brick/wood bell tower.


Inspirational picture so you ge an Idéa of about how it could have looked like, of course this church also have gone through some alternation like the windows are from the 17th centery. The Haraker chruch also had a internal tower to the left.

You find the first work in progress pictures at my blog

Best regards Michael

[Hammers]

That's a splendid build, Michael.

[LordOdo]

That's a splendid build, Michael.

 

Good luck!

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking forward to seeing this complete 

Are you going for similar colours to the stone church above?

cheers

James

[Patrice]

It already looks very good. 

A church can be important in a medieval battle. In many villages the church was the only stone building, and defenders would go in the church and use it as a small castle.

[von Lucky]

A nice start - looking forward to this develop.

[Leidang]

Very nice.... I like the textured walls!

[Dalauppror]

Thanks for the support ! Appreciated.

My church will be grayer as it built of granit and not sandstone as the church in the picture, and the texture paper I got have smaler "stones" I hope it will turn out good anyway...

Best regards Michael

[Dalauppror]

some WIP pictures, more ones at my blog.


The basic structure was made of fomacore with added texture paper on the outerwalls to get it look like natural stones and bricks.

The added plastic parts have been in my bitbox for some while, door and windows are Games Workshop and the corner stones are from the Warlord ruined farmhouse set.


Black Perry box just to hold the parts together while the PVA dry.

By the way...I will not build the interior, so no lift of roof...

Have a realy nice weekend !

Best regards Michael

[Little Odo]

Looking good so far

[Mitch K]

Michael, the textured paper - is this a gaming product, or is this textured wallpaper?

[Nysse]

Coming along nicely!

The textured paper looks a bit like some model railroad stuff that I've seen at a local hobby store. Seconding Mitch, is that a hobby product or something else (and probably helluva lot cheaper )

[Dalauppror]

Thanks !

I´m not realy sure about the english word for it might be: Paintable Wallpaper, costed about £3 for 1 metre, I found one that could be used as small stones and one that was "Bricks", but the swedish shop that had them a year ago dosen´t any more.

Found this webpage that might have, I havent looked throught all the differnet one...

just updated my blog with some progress pictures.



Best regards Michael

[Nysse]

Coming along nicely!

Have to see if I can find something like that paper from any local home deco stores. Funny enough if you'd get the same stuff from a hobby store it would probably cost you 30 quid for a metre

[OSHIROmodels]

You'll be getting some colour on it soon 

cheers

James