Medieval Mayhem - A Barons War Project

No not the Fulham football ground, but more buildings for my barons war. I have returned from my Transatlantic sojourn and have started to re connect with the hobby vibe. I am still somewhat jet lagged so it’s simple operations to start with.

I ordered two medieval cottages from fleabay and they were very traditional plaster of Paris constructions each with four walls, two roof sections and a chimney stack.

I actually built these before my trip and u fortunately I failed to take any pictures of the pre constructed buildings.

Preparation

These came as mentioned in multiple parts, which were designed to slot together easily. However like many plaster casts they had gone a bit wrong in the casting with the wall sections needing to have the slots recut. This I did with the use of a mini saw blade and a scalpel knife. It was a relatively quick process, to tidy up.

Construction

So the next step was construction. I decided that I would create bases for the cottages and I used some of my card stock.

The next stage was to get the UHU glue out and glue everything together and wait for them to set. I then had two built cottages in a relatively quick space if time.

To paint the cottages I first used some cheap black paint from Hobbycraft to provide a primer.

After the primer coat I mixed in some brown with the remaining black to base coat all the wooden areas. After that I mixed up some grey paint and painted the stone work with a wet brush so that some of the black primer showed through.

The next stage was to add some blue to the grey so that I could base coat the roof tiles.

Then I began highlighting the wood having added some cream colour to the base coat of the wood. I then started to lighten up the wood panels.

I then started to lighten up the wood panels. Once the panels had been lightened. I then used a number of contrast paints.

• The roof – gryph charger grey
• The stone walls – space wolf grey
• The wood panels – gore grunta fur
• The support beams and posts – cygor brown

Then to finish the buildings I used a Vallejo cold grey to dry brush the roof, and the stone work.

I used Vallejo light brown to dry brush the wooden panels.

Then a mixture of cold grey and light brown on the beams and the posts.