The Green Man Inn

[Captain Blood]

And finally, got around to painting my Forgeworld 'coaching inn'.

It's a mouthwateringly beautiful model.
There again, at 85.00 GBP it bl**dy well ought to be.

The detail is sublime. I haven't done the interior yet, but if I tell you that the underside of the roof section has the full detail of beams, trusses and planking all lovingly rendered, you get an idea of the quality of the piece.

I hope the painting does it justice. It was a pleasure because the relief is so beautifully executed, but also a bit of a pain - all those infil plaster panels. Sheesh!

There are no instructions on where to hang the inn sign, so I improvised with a bit of balsa and some ingenuity. 



































Shame it took Forgeworld several months to send enough correct parts to construct a model that actually fitted together properly. This is because (allegedly) they use a soft resin in which big sections are prone to warping. Therefore, the three main sections - ground floor, first floor and roof - simply didn't fit together properly on the first one. Nor on the second one. It was only when they sent me a third one, that I managed to get enough pieces together which actually fitted! And even that took a fair amount of shaving and filing and sanding with blade and Dremel.

Quite why Forgeworld don't check before they package the pieces, I don't know, but clearly - they don't, which is a bit rubbish for a model costing an awful lot of money. Crap customer service too - it took months of to-ing and fro-ing before I finally had a model I could use. For days at a time they don't answer the phone, and don't respond to emails ever. In the end, I phoned GW and asked to be put through to the CEO's office. That seemed to work. 

So - what to say?
Fantastic, gorgeous model. But lousy quality control and absymal customer service…

You pays your money, and takes your choice… 

[Operator5]

So much great scenery coming up lately. 


Damn, where's Grimm to take it all in and produce something even better. 

[Captaingeneral]

 

Thanks for sharing Captain, it looks truly lovely!

Great work
 

[Sendak]

Wow-ser!

Looked at the piccys over and over.

Stunning good.

[Overlord]

Beautifully done Cap'n.   

[flytime]

Looks very great and extremly inspiring. I want one too.

[Svennn]

It is very nice, especially love how you have done the brick work but as I read "added balsa" and "£85.00" I thought sod that for a game of soldiers. Then when I got to the end of the post and read the rest  ;D

[Keith]

Beautifully done!

[Gallowglass]

 

Rhymes with "clucking bell"!!!

Very impressive piccies and model, the account of customer service......not so much.

[fastolfrus]

It looks gorgeous, but at that price it should look gorgeous, and at that price it should be quality checked before they put it in the box.
Their customer service attitude sounds very arrogant. I'm not over impressed with that.

I think other (smaller) firms have a better customer focus - as an example Em4, very friendly a great customer relationship but so far only have one building, a slightly smaller inn but ready assembled for only £39.

[uti long smile]

Oustanding work. Some of the best I've seen.

[fastolfrus]

Just out of interest what's written above the door ?

[Captain Blood]

Just out of interest what's written above the door ?

It says...



I don't know the significance of the 1412, but the sculptor is listed by Forgeworld as Simon Harris, so presumably SAH is him.

 

[warrenpeace]

 :)GREEN MAN!!!!  YEAHSSSSS!!!  What a great theme for an inn!  And a truly awesome inn it is! (I'm very glad you persevered on that project.)

[fastolfrus]

Maybe he finished sculpting the original on 14th Dec ?
Or could be his birthday I suppose.

Bit of a tricky one to justify in game terms, something poetic would have been nice, but tricky to do in a small space.

For a Tudor setting do you need a shrub hanging outside (to signify that beer has been freshly brewed ?).


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