Archaic Abodes 4

Welcome back to another episode of Archaic Abodes. The hopefully long running series of blog articles that I’m using to document my adventures in terrain building. I have grand plans for a town that includes townsfolk, buildings, walls, hedges, trees, and modular table tiles. But more on all that stuff later. 

Today I have, from Townscape building # 10. TALL HOUSE WITH VERANDA. 

I gave this one a blue roof to break up the monotony of terra-cotta that I had done on the first two Townscape houses.

I also experimented with a smaller base to see if I could crowd the houses together in tighter clumps. In hindsight I should have extended the base out the front a little more as this guy can get a bit top heavy with miniatures standing on the veranda.

As with all of my buildings so far it has a lift off roof. This time granting access to the second story.

The house was cut in half during construction to give access to the ground floor. There is a tab of foam board glued to the inside of each wall on the second story to lock it on to the first story. I didn’t get a picture of them this time but this little trick has work well enough that I will be using it again in the future. 

Those of you that know Townscape well will note that I added some extra borderlines around the exterior of the house. The top one is just for show but the bottom border hinds the seem between the first and second stories. Once again, it was something that worked well and will be used again in the future.

Thanks again for stopping by and checking out my blog. If you like what you see please leave a comment or even become a follower of my blog. 

Archaic Abodes 3

Another house from Townscape. This time number 9. House With Veranda.

It’s a pretty straight forward simple box design building. The added details to the doors, chimney, wood grain and weathering make it more than just a boring box.

Once again I did my lift off roof for getting the most out of the structure for game play. I also added an abbreviated second floor for access to the veranda.

In the future I’m going to add a ladder and fireplace to the interior.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my adventures in small scale carpentry!

 

Archaic Abodes 2

I kind of jumped the gun with the first Archaic

Abodes article. I had meant to start out with a brief personal  history and a layout for my plan. Without further ado, here it goes.

I’ve always liked building terrain. Back in the day I was known as the terrain guy. Although me resources and skills weren’t what they are today, I did the best with what I had. My builds didn’t always turn out as planned but I was always building something.

The plan as of now is to make and document the classic fantasy buildings from the Citadel Journals, White Dwarf Modeling Workshop and the venerable Townscape. I’m even working on some village people, erm, I mean townsfolk to populate the town that will eventually pop up. Each townsperson (?) will have their own background and could lead to various mini adventures for murder hobos and dungeon degenerates to participate in. More on that later...Archaic Abodes is more about the buildings themselves. 

This building here is #3. Large House from Townscape 

The last image here is of the interior showing the small loft and that fine wood grain detailing.

Thanks for having a look there’ll be more to come soon!

Archaic Abodes

The first post I guess I’ll do from here is the Fantasy Barn from White Dwarf #140. Here’s my version:

I made it in the traditional way with a foam core type skeleton and craft sticks around the outside. I like to make my roofs out of card stock with the shingles being individually pieces. The roof is made as a separate piece and is not glued down to rest of the structure. That way the roof can be lifted off allows game play inside the barn.

I did notice that I forgot a hat loft. Guess I’ll add that at a later date.