An apologies for not being very active recently, but now that the holidays have come once again I'm back to my hobby. I started building something today & it's coming out quite nicely. Nice to be back & hope to see people around.






There are from an older post, that I have now finished.


As always criticism and comments are always welcome.

I cannot say anything but great start. Lovely roof.

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

Nice terrain. Love the way you actually made those 'support beams' in the building

Thanks for the comments gents, yeah the roof turned out pretty well & I also like it. Here's a bit more I've done tonight. This model is actually a manger/crib I'm making for the church.

Do you think this could pass as a Rohan stables? (the roof will be thatched btw)

For Gondor I think it would work for Gondor as well. With a tile roof maybe

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For me it could pass as rohan stables. But then u might have to put horse heads on the top. Don't know if u get what i got for my eyes...something like this
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8374 ... 008bd0.jpg (found this on the net )

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

yeah I agree it looks more like a Rohan building, but I can see the Gondor in there too.. .. but it'll be thatched anyway (cause it has to lol) & then am sendin it off to the church

Just a little update again today, poped into town & got myself a nice fluffy carpet for my roof. I had some great fun shredding it up for a roof. Plenty of it for more thatched roofs to come! Also a quick question, should I keep this roof white with sparkly bits to make it more fantasy like, or stick with the golden yellows - baring in mind it's to sell at the church.

Here's the carpet thing, look at those folding skills



I'm going to try & get some detail up top like in this picture above.

Any suggestions/comments are always good.
Should I bother making this into a guide once the library is back? or is it not good enough for that?

If you detail the thatch like the photo most certainly so

I vote for yellow. Good work

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"the same as a duck you must be made of wood"

Thank's Willow, I'll give it a go.

nice roof

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

Well since my last update I've stuck the fake fur onto the roof & pva'd it, not much I know but oh well. A quick question about colour, should I base coat it brown first, the add yellow? This is for the thatching of course.

Thank's In Advance
Drum

A quick question about colour, should I base coat it brown first, the add yellow? This is for the thatching of course.
yes, I would.

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"the same as a duck you must be made of wood"

Just have a care how you list these things on Ebay. I used to do this kind of thing several years ago, but I got jumped on by the GW legal squad for copyright infringement - they tried to get me banned from Ebay!
Just don't use their copyrighted named terms in your item title or description - words like "Warhammer", "40k" maybe even "LOTR" - may land you in trouble!

regards
Scott

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Really? ouch, so would there be a way to sell them without using those words? because when you search in ebay those are the most likely ones.. I'll have a think about it anyway - thank's for the heads up on that one.

Drum

Sure you can still make and sell them, just use generic words in title and description " terrain", "scenery", "for wargaming", "28mm" etc etc.
Note sure about Tolkien specific words but probably OK - "Gondor", "Osgiliath"??

Ebay can be quite twitchy about copyright infringement/fraud and and if some raises to their attention that you may be breaching their Intellectual Property, they'll give you a couple of warnings and then block you.
Took me several months to get back onto Ebay again...

regards
Scott

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Right well I'll keep that in mind, and when selling things use alternatives. Thanks for the advice on this.

On the other hand I have a small update.


It does look a bit scruffy but I think once I have the walls done & the rest it'll look better.

I think you need a final highlight for the thatch, equivalent to "bleached bone"
Here's mine I did a while ago...
http://scottswargaming.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
I did mine according to journey-book description but used hobby acrylics rather than expensive model paints

Hope this helps
regards
Scott

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Oh yours looks much better! and nice blog. I'm going to repaint the roof and try again because I'm not that happy with it. Oh & I'll add that final highlight once done.

Thanks for the tips
Drum

Looks good all your terrain looks ver good you are becoming better and better and I also suggest highlighting the roof with bleached bone and wash it with bestial brown but then in acrylic paints or what you use to paint buildings.

Keep on building

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"There are only 4 things you need in life: Lasagna, beer, a girlfriend and of course a gondor army."