"Buildings for the '45?" Topic

This year's big project will be the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46. To do it properly I need buildings. Who makes suitable buildings or offers good plans for scratch building suitable for the period?

I have not firmly settled on a scale, and may even do multiple scales for different size engagements.

So any scale suggestion is welcome at this point.

You want a mixture of things…Black houses (field stone buildings with thatched rooves) for Highland/Island areas and a mixture of cruck-built or jettied wooden buildings (thatch/shingle/pantiles)for lowland areas and towns with some 'upmarket' stone houses. If you google 'Gladstone's Land, Edinburgh' you'll see an example of the latter and I expect 'Scran' network would have examples of the others. Significant numbers of town buildings would be similar to Gladstone's Land in style but timber-built. Town buildings would almost all be terraced with the house right up against the street and a long garden (toft) behind.

Hudson and Allen (sold by Vatican Enterprises) do a range of Black Houses and Grand Manner have all sorts of houses which would suit in their Middle Ages and Napoleonic Europe ranges.

Could n't remember the name Hudson & Allen, but their stuff's nice. Really, any buildings suitable for northern Europe in the 17/18th Century will do the trick. As with most things there really was n't a whole lot to distinguish Scottish things from England/France/Low Countries other than the layout of farms…Google 'ferm toun' for examples, A lot of East Coast buildings had a Low Countries flavour due to hefty imports of roof tiles as ballast cargo, though slate was considered more up-market.

Thanks Gents. That should see me sorted.