Birch Bark Iroquois Longhouse

[Bob Murch]

I've been experimenting with using real birch bark (from dead trees) to construct a village for Flint & Feather.

[Arthur]

Looks like an extremely conclusive experiment to me 

[Mason]

Looks like an extremely conclusive experiment to me 

Agreed.

It certainly seems like a successful operation.
Top notch.
 

[Nemo de st privat]

Salut
Very nice 

[Jase]

That looks very natural. Did you use the bark as is or did you add paint or washes afterwards?

[fergal]

Very Sweet!  Nice results.  I'm from the area where most the FIW was fought and when I started to learn about the war for gaming, I began collecting birch bark whenever I found it on the ground.  About 8 years later and I haven't done a thing with it and I pitched it out in a cleaning session last year.

Your results are great!  Keep it up!

[Bob Murch]

This is the natural colour of the bark. I used the inside face of the bark though. The white side faces in. I thought this would give the longhouse a weathered look.

[Lord Borjado]

Very nice results, congratulations!
But is bark suficiently tough for these kind of models?

[Cory]

That definitely looks like an idea worth stealing.

[joekano]

Very nicely done!

[Rob_bresnen]

I rather like that.

[CC2IC]

Check out our Flint and Feather Blog at http://flintandfeatherplaytest.blogspot.ca/
This week we posted about the Longhouse.

[mikedemana]

Your longhouse looks great! Hope it doesn't begin to deteriorate on you, though. Did you seal it somehow?

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com

[Bob Murch]

Your longhouse looks great! Hope it doesn't begin to deteriorate on you, though. Did you seal it somehow?

I built a smaller, simpler birch bark longhouse back when I sculpted the original Flint and Feather range for RAFM. that was 30 years ago now and I still have it very much intact. Keep the model dry and it should age just fine.

[mikedemana]

I built a smaller, simpler birch bark longhouse back when I sculpted the original Flint and Feather range for RAFM. that was 30 years ago now and I still have it very much intact. Keep the model dry and it should age just fine.

Good grief -- 30 years! The native Americans must have know what they were doing when they chose that as their building material...! I would have assumed it would have dried out and become brittle and flaked off, bit by bit.

I have been using the Acheson Creations resin models, which are inexpensive and look great on the tabletop. They don't quite have that same authenticity as a scratch-built birch bark one, though...!



Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com