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building is based on one I saw in the new How to make Wargames Terrain
book. The one in the book is an empire house, but Mine is a Brettonian
inn. I've been wanting to build something with a stone lower story
and wooden upper story for a while, and this seemed the perfect chance.Like
the brettonian hovels, it all starts with a polystyrene core.However,
as the brick work was only for the lower story, I only built a single
story core. Four courses of stone work where built around the core.
I then built the upper story entirely from Balsa wood, with internal
bracing made from icey pole sticks.Like
other brettonain buildings, the Inn received external wooden bracing,
which merges into the wooden frames of the upper story A cardbroad
roof was constructed, and the thactch laid over this.
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TIP:
I find it's much easier to paint the building first, and then add
the thatch. It means you can reach all areas of the building, and
you don;t have to worry about getting the wrong colors on the thatch. As usual, the lower story was painted in textured paint, before receiving a coat of neutral grey. This was dry brushed with Fortress Grey, and Rotting Flesh. The wood work was painted burnt umber (a reddish brown color), and dry brushed with Raw Sienna (the base color for my desert terrain). This was drybrushed with pale beige (roughly the same as bleached bone) and a final light drybrush of Fortress Grey. This gives a very nice heavily weathered effect. |
| The Inn's mascot, a Goblin's head hangs by the door. I tried to paint it so it looks like it's been carved from wood, but it didn't work out perfectly. Just to reinforce the Inn's name, I used a drawing pen to write it above the door. (I did think about Le Bonce Du Gobbeuax since It's a bretonain inn, but we might want to use it as an empire inn some day...) |  |