"15mm Hyborian building " Topic

I think I am finished with this first buildings.

I added matchstick roof timbers, a torch, and a shield to help add to the look right for 15mm.

I'm quite happy with the outcome so far but I still think something is missing. I am working a few more so will try some other ideas out and expand from this first one!

All C&C welcome
DZT

Fits the bill nicely.
Matchsticks are a good addition indeed.

Maybe a piece of hanging cloth inside the doorway to make it look used?

The river is excellent by the way.
I have been studying it.

Cool!

Crom!

At first I thought it was too chunky / blocky but it sits well in the setting.

I can see that out on some misty moor. Maybe a shrine to some forgotten god, tended by some half-crazy wizard/priest?

Great job.

Turned out nice. Are you still considering a thatched add-on?

Cheers, TC.

AB – The cloth idea is a pretty good one and I think I will use that. I'm thinking a yellow/red striped one would give a nice dash of color to it as well.

The river(and the whole board) were a exercise in cheapness. It's 2x2 blue insulating foam that I spraypainted maroon(only can I had on hand). The river was first suppose to be a road but the spraypaint ate too much out of it. Then it was going to be a gully but I was running out of paint to desolve it out. So I figured why not a river.

I hand painted it a mix of browns for the base and to seal it(had no clue what kind of damage my next step would do to it). I mixed some cheap clear resin I got from Micheal craft store with a dab of blue craft paint(I just dipped my stirring stick into the paint first) and mixed it then poured.

I didn't have enough so I did this a few times with different tints of blue as each one was different. Also I didn't wait for all the brown paint to dry so as I took the stir stick and pulled it in the direction of the river flow it kind of picked some of that up too!

I was more relieved than anything else when the resin all set properly over night and I didn't come back to a soupy mess or a dissolved board :)

Oh and I used sawdust as my flock… feel free to dig through my flikr page to see other pics of it.
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I am going to save the thatching for a few awnings and lean too parts. on the next one I am working on!

AB – The cloth idea is a pretty good one and I think I will use that. I'm thinking a yellow/red striped one would give a nice dash of color to it as well.

Sounds good, with a dirty torn botton hem?

Fate had been kind to you with the river.
Your board is blessed by the gods!

oh, did you ever add that sign hanging by a broken chain to your sci-fi building?

That looks really sharp!

Dirty up the bottom row or two of stones, to make it look older and more "settled" into the ladscape.

I like the idea of the cloth curtain.

Also add a couple of colorful pots or jugs beside the door. Makes it look more lived in.

Maybe a little flock in some of the nooks and crannies on the roof, to represent moss.

If it's just a residence, maybe a woman looking out the door or standing in the yard, and some chickens or other livestock around the base. A rooster on the roof would look cool, or maybe a lizard.

If it's a shrine or temple, stick a priest or acolyte in the doorway, and add a symbol of some sort either over the door or on the wall beside it. Maybe a small snake on the roof, if it's a temple to Set.

The stone effects are really well done. Honestly though, I'm having trouble buying the roof. Flat wood or peaked thatch maybe? The river however, is absolutely phenomenal! Happy accidents are a cool thing…I rely on them! And yes, definitely a dirty striped cloth on the door!

How is the roof held up?

AB – Builders lament had me shelf the scifi buildings and then I later traded them off… so I never got to use your excellent idea.

I did however add the cloth and dirty up the lower bricks!
I am going to dig through my wife's bead collection for some vases.

Roof issues… Honest criticisms and I am happy to play around a bit with it to see what can be made. This is still my test model after all.

Give the base height adding a thatched roof makes it have a vaulting height. It feels like a 28mm house right now. The minotaur is 25mm

I'd most likely be making my thatching out of faux fur so the thicker autumn flock is close – but a thinner option could be had;

The roof is stolen from a resin building I hadn't built yet so I could do something like this but it would require me to sculpt something I feel.

I also tried adding some boards to the roof.

Granted it would look a world better if they were flat – I didn't have any popsicle sticks on hand. I would also feel they would need to be recessed into the roof a bit to look the best.

I do kind of like the idea of doing something like this –

in some form but I would have to do a lot of hand building to get it to look right.

Alex – The roof is held up by the exposed crossbeams. Unseen inside the building on top of them are flat board crossbeams with the rock on top of that. At least that is how the adobe house pictures I looked at seemed to show.

I still don't know how the next few buildings might go. I might just try one thatched and one with wood for the roof and see when they are done what one I like the best.

DZT

Adobe houses don't have stone (or mud-brick) roofs, though.

Their roofs are wood, thatch, or terracotta/tile.

I like the second picture of the roof above (The wooden panels).

A tile roof, like the one directly above would look good too.

Alex – Thanks for the info. I just kind of googled Ancient buildings to get inspiration and saw a illustration of the underside of an adobe roof and made my own assumptions as to where to go from there. Assuming and all that, I know :)