Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Houses for 18th century horror
Continuing slowly with my plans to do some 18th century horror games, I've nearly completed a selection of timber framed scratchbuilt houses. They are not quite finished and require the addition of chimneys and a coat of paint on their roofs, although looking at them, I don't mind the dark slate look.
The buildings are made from a foam-core base with coffee stirrer framing and cardboard shingles. The window frames are cut mdf from Warbases laid over a square of plastic, to give the illusion of glass. All in all fairly simple builds, but effective enough to represent what I want.
I am particularly proud of emulating (read, blatantly copying) the amazing tutorial of Captain Richard which he posted by request on his blog. My attempts are shown in the 3rd, 4th and 5th images below, and consist of using brick textures printed onto paper and card, which are applied directly to the walls of the buildings. My efforts pale in comparison to Capt. Richards' own projects, but his method has opened up a whole new way of doing things.
I have made 8 of these in total, including a large "gate building", but will require quite a few more for an entire village.
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Excellent. These are fantastic looking buildings.
ReplyDeleteNice buildings, these streets are great!
ReplyDeleteThey look rather splendid, sir. You are to be congratulated and should be justifiably proud of your accomplishment.
ReplyDelete-- Jeff
They look great! Looking forwards to the horror!
ReplyDeleteAwesome buildings! I'll copy you...
ReplyDeleteExcellent work my friend...fantastic job on the brick and some outstanding looking units.
ReplyDeleteVery nice buildings !
ReplyDeleteExcellent modeling!
ReplyDeleteThey look like they've come right out of a Dennis Wheatley novel! Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely wonderful sir!
ReplyDeleteGreat period feel to the buildings
ReplyDeleteThese are great Frank - thanks for heads up on the window panes - I'll have to check out warbases. Cheers Scott
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