"28mm Pigsty" Topic
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| Wargames Designs | 18 Jun 2016 6:15 p.m. PST |
I made this Pigsty for my ECW collection a good while ago and decided to finish it off the other day by putting the groundwork around the structure and courtyard. The building itself is made of a polystyrene block cut to the right shape and wrapped in stone effect wallpaper with the doors and windows added later. The roof is felt lagging over thick card with a polyfilla wash over it and several coats of paint to give a nice thatch effect. The base is an off-cut of hardboard and the courtyard is again a stone effect paper and the groundwork is several layers of various shades of scatter material with some long grass and flower tufts added to make it look extra pretty. The pile of pig muck is strategically placed for an assassin to hide in just in case an enemy general decides to go looking for some free bacon. With all of my buildings I give them a coat of matt acrylic varnish for protection but sometimes a coat of matt solvent based varnish is required over that to really matt down such things as the shiny thatch that was caused by the acrylic varnish. All in I am really pleased with the result and especially now that the thatch has had an extra coat of matt varnish. More photos on my blog: wargamesdesigns.com/ecw-blog
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| normsmith | 18 Jun 2016 10:23 p.m. PST |
Nice, I like the touch of adding a shepherd to the flock. |
 Herkybird  | 19 Jun 2016 1:41 a.m. PST |
A house fit for the Prince of Pigs!! |
| Jeff of SaxeBearstein | 19 Jun 2016 1:54 a.m. PST |
Steve, I don't see the "Pike & Shotte" Cavalry modifications . . . are they inside the lovely building?
-- Jeff
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| Frederick | 19 Jun 2016 5:56 a.m. PST |
Fantastic work – as noted, very tidy for a pig sty but it probably just rained (it is the UK, after all) |
| Wargames Designs | 19 Jun 2016 7:50 a.m. PST |
Hi Guys, Thanks for the great comments, and point taken about the courtyard. As usually I do add dirt & moss at the printing stage for anything used as a floor I simply didn't think and used an offcut from a walling project. However the oversight has now been rectified and some pig muck stains have now been added along with a slight dark wash around the base of the walls to suggest some creeping damp. Also as you can see the new varnish on the thatch has taken away the slightly glossy sheen. More pics on my blog: wargamesdesigns.com/ecw-blog
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| foxweasel | 19 Jun 2016 11:12 a.m. PST |
Simple but effective, nice idea. |
| capncarp | 23 Jun 2016 10:28 a.m. PST |
Why go 28mm, when 1800mm is at your fingertips? |
| Wargames Designs | 23 Jun 2016 5:13 p.m. PST |
I have actually worked on lots of really old buildings like that repairing them as I actually used to be a bricklayer until I retired 8 years ago due to Lymphoma. I did manage to fit a degree in Art & Design in there many years ago when I was 30 though, but my love for buildings does remain although nowadays it is on a much smaller scale. |
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