Shingles, Porches and Windows

This is probably the worst part of the build. Getting these last pieces on this side of the house is painful. The gap between the porch roof and the building roof is a narrow fit but workable. Over the weekend, I managed to finish the front of the house.

I am attempting to figure out how the roof will be painted. Since this picture, I did complete the rest of the roof. On the front, I ran out of superglue. I used PVA to glue the upstairs windows in place. For the back of the house, I still have to brick one more support on the base of the porch. I also need to paint the supports for the porch roof. These will need to be glued in place along with doors and windows. After that, the only remaining item is the side windows. I will have to paint the remaining windows and glue the tiles on the porch roof for the back. Once this is all done, I think I will be ready to work on the base. The completion is getting closer.

Windows and a door

I managed a bit more work on the house last night. I got the front first floor windows applied. I applied a touch of brass paint to the door knob after this. In addition, I finished the second chimney. I had a harder time with the brick paper this time for some reason. I just started to tile the roof as well. I got one whole strip applied before I had to stop for the night. I didn't get a picture of the roof tiles. Maybe tonight. In the picture, you can see the porch laying upside down to the right. After the rooftiles go on, I will put on the porch. That will let me determine how much room I have for the upper floor windows. In all honesty, I think the building should be taller. Possibly by another 10mm or so. It will be tight between the porch and roof to get them in there. But it is starting to come together.

This Old House

The front and back steps came in yesterday from my printer. Also I received my package from Warbases with the roofing tiles. These made it downstairs to the hobby table. I am now trying to figure out how to paint and assemble the building. I have the blockw with brick paper on them ready for the house. I think I will have to glue these to the bottom of the building before gluing that to the base.

The initial pass was to prime the pieces black and then drybrush the base building white. I am adding Brick paper to the chimneys and the base bricks.

Over the weekend, I managed to finish one chimney and start on the second. I also started to paint the windows and doors.

I also managed to finish bricking the supports of one of the porches and painted the porch and front steps.

This week, I am hoping to finish the doors and windows and start to glue them to the building. The roofing needs to be done. I started to cut out my Warbases tiles. I am rather concerned with getting these to line up correctly.

I also did some work on the TRE Games snake rail fencing that I purchased. They are nice kits but look a little large to me for 15mm miniatures. I made one section of fencing.

The upper rail is head height with a 15mm figure. Here it is compared to my existing snake rail fances.

I may skip the 'x' supports and upper rail. I also need to sort out how I will base these.

House on Horseshoe Bend

I have received the model back from the printer. It is looking pretty good. I made the windows and doors of the house separate from the frame. The porch and porch roof & railins are separate items as well. I also had the chimneys printed separately and the foundation columns. Once he brought them to me today, I realized that I was lacking steps up to the porch. I spent a few minutes working on that and sent him a new file. the plan is to attempt to assemble the building on a base. I have sent a set of steps to a friend to print as well.

The roof will be scratch built. I have ordered several sheets of shingles from Warbases. Somewhere I have a a sheet of their 15mm shingles that I will need to find. The new building will be taller and wider than the exising building that I have. Since I have no pictures so far of what is printed, I took a screen shot from Thingiverse of a partially assembled structure.

I am working on the base blocks currently. I am attaching brick paper to them and then will glue them to the base. This is slow going.

In the mean time, an order from TRE Games just game in. I received three packs of Snake Rail Fencing and a windmill. All useable for What a Cowboy and the fences for AWI Sharp Practice. Honestly, these seem to be a complicated model. They are very small pieces of wood and the instructions are the same as if I were to attempt to build these at actual size. The windmill looks relatively easier. What I like is that TRE Games put some painters tape on the back of each sprue to prevent the pieces from falling out in transit. For such small pieces, this is great.

The next best part is the smell of the cut wood that comes with opening each pack. I really like that. I do think I will need additional sections of fencing. TRE Games was very good with communicating and sent updates from ordering on Sunday to delivery today. I am looking forward to trying some more of their products.

Mountain Lard Prep

While working on completing preparations for Mountain Lard, I have finished with fitting the miniatures to their sabot bases. I have decided to lay out the table and run a practice game with what I have. I still want to replace the plantation house with a larger one. Hopefully, I will pick up the replacement building this week.

Here is the table layout so far.

I think I will add a few more trees to the overall layout. In addition, I was not happy with the snalke rail fencing that I have. I have several sets. The first is from Terry Haney that are rather nicely based. These are great but only have enough to barely surround the farm itself. The fecing that is extending past the end of the house is some that I had made. It does not fit in with the other fencing that I have. I just placed an order from Tre miniatures for some of the fencing that they have for salw. I like the look of it in the pictures on the site but will see what I end up with.

I had purchased some additional milita figures on eBay and they arrived this week. I am not sure what I will do with these. They look far more uniform than the others that I have. I may use them for long service militia. Or just a regular unit. Will have to see.