Scratchbuilt card houses - Phase one finished

[Paul]

What you can do over the Weekend with some thickcard, scissors and glue (and other bits and pieces)...1/2 a dozen 1/72nd scale generic medieval (and for 18th century) houses


Some more pics  HERE

[cuchulain23]

Great job, those houses look awesome.

[Furt]

What you can do over the Weekend with some thickcard, scissors and glue (and other bits and pieces)

Amazing effort. They look brilliant considering what they are made of and the time spent.

[Gunbird]

Really nice houses Paul, and fast too

[Paul]

Thanks 
I´ve now come up with a better way of making the roofing tiles, takes a bit longer than just printing them but a bit faster than sticking individual tiles on..  but still using scrap Card and I´ve found out that copying (or as near as possible) reallife buildings gives a better result..just adding the finishing touches to a new 3 storey house.
 

[Paul]

A "near as possible" copy of King John's" Hunting Lodge - Axbridge


Some more pics  and design ideas HERE

[Michi]

Very, very good!

[Rhoderic]

That's great! That method for making roof tiles is very common in miniature wargames terrain-building, but whereas is often ends up looking a bit silly when wargamers do it, you've achieved a very good, realistic look.

Did you achieve the texture on the plastered sections of the walls with paint alone?

[Paul]

Thanks 

That's great! That method for making roof tiles is very common in miniature wargames terrain-building, but whereas is often ends up looking a bit silly when wargamers do it, you've achieved a very good, realistic look.

Damm..I thought I was the first to think it up 
It´s a pain to do, the marking out doesn´t take that Long but snipping the edges!!!!!! 

Did you achieve the texture on the plastered sections of the walls with paint alone?

Acrylic White wall paint thickened up with a bit of talcum powder and the tiniest bit of yellow added.. painted on with an old battered paint brush, one with the bristles slightly splayed. It seems to take an Age painting each block but painting the beams in is way worse...

[Rhoderic]

Thanks  :)Damm..I thought I was the first to think it up  

Here are two old, classic TerraGenesis articles that show (roughly speaking) the same method in use:

http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page191.html
http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page189.html

I seem to recall these articles being quite popular with wargamers back when they were new. There was much, much less wargames modelling content on the internet back then and TerraGenesis was something of a pioneer in that field, so the articles received some attention (whereas these days that website as a whole doesn't get noticed much anymore). I also may have seen the method in various Games Workshop publications back in the 90s. Anyway, I think the roof of the Gothic Church (second link) illustrates what I was saying about the end result being a bit silly-looking sometimes. A rather cartoonish, childish style of scenery (albeit perhaps with a charm of its own, harkening back to the 80s-90s fantasy wargaming aesthetic that's undergoing a revival right now). Your hunting lodge roof looks much more realistic!

Using talcum powder as a "substance booster" for creating textures is something I'm going to have to experiment with. Thanks for the tip!

[Captain yapudo]

WOUAOU.....

Can you send copy of your drawing...

I'll probably make this kind of buildings for a PIRATE/FRENCHY/SPANISH city for our next MEGAVENTURE...

[Svennn]

Very nice.  When I read the title I thought it was going to be King Johns Palace which was a hunting lodge and is very close to here and I regularly walk past the ruins when I am out with the dogs.

[Paul]

http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page191.html
http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page189.html

I think he made the mistake of making the tiles too big (mind you, there´s a Limit to how small they can be made by Hand) and not cutting small triangles out of the bottom. The Roof on the house Looks ok but the one on  the church..not so good.
Still, it beats placing each and every tile on....like on this (1/72nd scale)


I came up with a different method a while back, the protective corrugated paper from rolls of biscuits, it Looks ok for Roman style houses but for The medieval ones I wanted something that looked like a cross between a  clay tile and a wooden shingle.

[Paul]

WOUAOU.....

Can you send copy of your drawing...

I'll probably make this kind of buildings for a PIRATE/FRENCHY/SPANISH city for our next MEGAVENTURE...

Thanks, 
The drawing on the blog? I´ll make a PDF form of the pic. I´m making a couple more "reallife" buildings and each one will need a Basic sketch   so I´ll Keep hold of them (normally they get binned after the build)

[Paul]

Very nice.  When I read the title I thought it was going to be King Johns Palace which was a hunting lodge and is very close to here and I regularly walk past the ruins when I am out with the dogs.

Thanks 
There´s a few houses with the titel King John´s (hunting) lodge, mostly built after his death,  I´ve found 4 so far and When looking about on the web I found the ruined one. I didn´t look up the history (too busy finding other decent timber framed houses for future builds)  but it Looks the sort of Thing that was built before/during  his  time.