I finished up three more buildings for the village. I changed up the colors from the first set a bit so that when they are all together there is a bit of variation. I went with some browner slate for the roofs and more of a grey color to the rendering on the walls. I painted the stone/brick work the same way as before but the mortar ended up a little to bright for me. Not sure how that happened but I put an extra brown wash on it and it looks better now.
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| The smaller stables building. Or at least I assume that's what it is. |
As I mentioned before these are all resins buildings from Crescent Root Studios. They also sell them painted but I opted to paint them myself. I wholly recommend them as they are really nice casts. I understand they are doing some laser cut MDF buildings as well although only in 28mm for now. If they put out some 15mm buildings I'll probably get them as well.
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| The Durand home ... |
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| And from the other side. |
My only reservation has nothing to do with the buildings but the fact that they are really intended for WWII Normandy, or at least they look like they should be in Carentan to me. (On a side note I've been rewatching Band of Brothers so maybe that's influencing me.) I'd like to make some brick and stone buildings without the render on them for a more English look to them. Of course I'm basing all of that purely on my personal perceptions of what period buildings should be. I haven't really been able to turn up much research on whether most common man's homes had render applied to them or not. Although I have found out that the mortar was usually grey as it was made with industrial ash mostly, and I guess the render would probably be similar.
Either way I still have a small home with walled garden, two more outbuildings, and a large manor house/ inn to go before I worry about making my own.
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| Lower Fickleham as it stands at the moment. |
Great work here. I'd not really considered 15mm for skirmish games before... it's certainly something I may need to investigate further in the future
ReplyDeleteYou've inspired me to go have a look at 15mm buildings and I came across this lot that may be useful for English buildings: http://www.hovelsltd.co.uk/
DeleteThanks Paul, I've always been a 28mm guy but I think 15mm has a lot to offer for skirmish gaming. It's more cost effective, doesn't take up as much space either to play or store, and the newer 15s have as much character as a lot of 28s. My friend Scott (four-color-figures.blogspot.com) is a big proponent for 15mm and I think its rubbed off on me.
DeleteVery nice. Crescent Root make nice terrain. Maybe 12 years ago (?) They were making terrain from foam and had a set that would have been ideal for Osgiliath, I did get a bridge but I couldn't afford anything else at the time, and always regretted not buying a whole city table worth of pieces. Looks like you've got a nice amount here, so you'll probably have no such future regrets
ReplyDeleteThanks LF! I've been in the same situation before regretting that I didn't pull the trigger on buying something that I never found again.
DeleteThese look great, especially the aerial shot where you can see the whole of Lower Fickleham; very inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael, now I'm running into the unexpected problem of the village getting too big to fit in my homemade light-box. I'll have to consider making a bigger one.
DeleteGreat looking village, I do like it!
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