A productive week it would seem.....I have had the week off work and have just got on with all sorts of gaming related stuff that Ive wanted to get done, including making this little French Church, which I knocked up this morning.



I have an HO scale church that I made a few years ago but its pretty big and tends to dominate a small table, so for a while I ve wanted a church thats closer to 10mm and is more in the style of the old churches seen in the Southern half of France and Northern Spain; namely a squarish block with a shallow pitched roof and simple bell tower which is a flat wall with a hole for the bell to hang from. I actually made it slightly bigger than I normally woudl for 10mm as I still want  to use it with my 15mm WW2 armies when Chain of Command is released later this summer. In the menatime, I will get it painted up and get the groundwork done, and use it for my French and English Medieval games.

Cheers,

Craig
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Nice work again Craig, but you really aught to sell your 15s, you heretic!

Terrific Craig !!
Cheers - Phil.

Superb, if thats what you can do in a week... Wow!

Nice!

To be honest Lemmy that was a couple of hours this morning, this week I have also:

Scratchbuilt a 10mm battering ram and painted it, cleaned up, based and painted 90% of my French Hundred Years War Army (about 75 figures), written a 2000 word article for Miniature Wargames mag, and made the template for the buildings for my central square in my 10mm medieval bastide 

A great weeks "work".......oh well back to my proper job on Monday 

Cheers,

Craig
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Work always gets in the way of the important things in life .

Progress has been slowed by a variety of things; messing around with 10mm miniature conversions,some steampunk I am writing, finishing my 100YW French Army, and of course the ever present work     However, there has been progress, namely 1 side of the roof is now ready for painting, the bell has been made from greenstuff and glued in place, and the walls have had a base coat.



Despite all sorts of fancy ideas involving laser cut MDF, I still cant find a better and lower cost way to make roofs like this than the old fashioned cereal packet cut into strips and then partially cut to make tiles shapes. Time consuming, but once painted about the best thing for irregular tiles:



Hoping to get the other side of the roof finished tonight so I can get to grips with the painting, and weathering.

For those of you following the progress of my 100YW French Army, another base completed last night.....just 2 to go 

Looks good Craig and completely agree with the cereal packet route.

Great work Craig

Alas poor Shreddies, we knew them well...

Wonderful !!
Can't wait to see it completed and painted.
Cheers - Phil.

All done.......






Finished the paintjob and the landscaping on the Southern French Medieval Church. The colours are actually a little more varied in real life and there is lots of shading on the roof tiles (rather than the flat orange that they look in the photos). The roof was painted using Vallejo Mahogany Brown base coat, followed by drybrushing with progressively lighter shades of Vallejo Red Leather mixed with Vallejo Buff. Finished the roof with a few hand painted tiles in lighter and darker shades to show replaced tiles and then a Vallejo Buff drybrush over the whole thing. Walls were a very simple base coat of Dulux Soft Truffle test pot with a off white drybush.

I added a plasticard cross above the door and painted the greenstuff bell in a dirty bronze using Burnished Gold and Vallejo Green Ochre mixed together and then a Brown wash to dull it down a bit.

You can also see a couple of units of Genoese Crossbow men with Pavisse from my French Hundred Years War army, which just need a little flocking to finish off.

Comments and crits very welcome,

Cheers,

Craig
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Looks excellent, but how about a few windows? I think they always had one at the west end opposite the door.

Hi Steve,

I modelled this based on an early church (I am guessing 11th C) in the Pyrenees that we stayed round the corner from a few years ago. It had 3 "holes for bells" instead of 1, but crucially not a window in sight.

We couldnt get inside but it must have been very, very dark.

Cheers,

Craig
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Splendid and special... Good work, there.