A half-timber barn... six years late!

[Wirelizard]

Way back in June of 2011 I started a fairly small half-timber barn. It was a test piece for a bunch of techniques - first half-timber building, first stonework, first thatched building. It got mostly finished and mostly painted and then... sat there. I moved. It sat around. I moved again. It sat around. I got really tired of having it on my Shelf of Shame... so I took advantage of some cold-virus-enforced downtime and finished the damn thing!



Doors, some touchup painting, and lots of random greenery, and it's finally done. Now I can maybe consider some other 16th C style buildings for my ECW/TYW tables... hopefully the next ones won't take nearly six years to complete!

Few more photos of the finished barn over on the blog: http://www.warbard.ca/2017/04/13/half-timber-barn-finally-finished/

Here's what it looked like when I started it, back in June 2011:


More in-progress shots from 2011 can be seen here: http://www.warbard.ca/2011/06/15/half-timber-barn-wip/
and here: http://www.warbard.ca/2011/06/21/half-timber-barn-wip-part-ii-thatched-roof/

The original LAF thread is over here, although all the photos have rotted away (thanks Photobucket...): http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30339.0

So, what's your longest time between starting and finishing a project? I'm sure some of you can beat my five-years-and-ten-months record, probably by decades!

[tin shed gamer]

Most definitely!
But it looks like it was worth the wait,and its probably more satisfying finally clearing a space.

Now if its projects I've started on the forum then ,I've four on the go for over two year's , plus a couple of tutorials I said I'd write ( only just remembered them writing this)
But my longest running and a stalled project is my Normans.
This started when Citadel Miniatures released a single mounted figure and a foot figure in blisters, Then when the range went to Foundry. Right now I've only a hundred or so painted and repainted and rebased as trends and painting styles change.
There are few ropey Gripping beast miniatures mixed in to fill the gaps for the one quick outing they've had.(as did have over two hundred done originally all citadel and Foundry ,but many moons ago they were lent to a friend to use in a comp.Unfortunately half never returned as there box files grew legs. He did offer to replace them ,but it kind of knocked the wind out of its sails
But every show I do find myself drawn to the Foundry stand ,But pricing and other shiny things catch my eye((okay its normally someone's said the bars open))then it drifts back into the 'one day ' Category.)
Mark.