Page Three
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HOUSES AND HUTS
I have a tendency to build medieval houses for the wargame out of whatever comes to hand from the parts box ...... but sometimes a careful look-see at the local hobby shop's HO scenery department is very fruitful, as witness the Miller's House below.
Most of these are made from either plastic card or are resin cast from some nice D&D dungeon walls I ran across several years back. I like the resin castings a lot, because they are modular; you can build quite a few designs with the several castings that come out.
If you keep an eye on the resin while it hardens, you can pull it from the mold when it's set but still soft. You can then cut doors, shape walls, cut windows or whatever, then allow it to harden all the way. It will even allow itself to be curved a little bit, and will set in the curve you give it.
Thatching is a major undertaking ..... my thatch is made from cut pieces of hemp rope, dipped in dissolved plastic sprue and then stuck on a thin plastic card roof in rows, When this hardens, the whole thing is painted with dissolved plastic, and then painted. It's tiresome to do, but the results are spectacular.
One of my "dream projects" is to build a 25mm scale Norman keep, with a detachable wall to show the interior, and to trick out the interior with everthing a keep would have in it. I figure it would stand about three to four feet tall ....... !!!!!
A city house with the typical overhanging
second story. All resin-cast.
Another view of the city house.
The village church. This one is resin-cast
with a plastic card roof.
The front of the chuch with a friar seated outside.
A thatched hut. There's chickens around
the coop on the side. Made of plastic card,
hemp rope and HO train scenery remnants.
The Miller's House is a model kit added
to a river section. The water is made
from casting resin.
"The Prancing Pony" inn, made from plastic card.
"The Prancing Pony"
The interior of the ground floor
of "The Prancing Pony"
A resin-cast house under construction
