The barn of the public house ( a start)

30. November 201630. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, DAS, extruded polystyrene, Kellerkind Miniaturen, terrain building, using sly bricks, wargames terrain, Wargaming terrain

As you remember I started building a public house for my games . If you haven’t seen the pictures feel free to have a look here.

With the barn I try a different way of building the walls. I found this mold on Kellerkind Miniaturen a german shop for modelling supplies.

With this mold you can do your own bricks from air drying clay like DAS.

I started build ing a “wooden frame” from extruded polystyrene . Next time I will try real wood I think.

And then I started filling in the gaps with my clay bricks:

This is how far I got last night. More to follow.

The next halfman warrior of von Ueckendorf

29. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Dragon Rampant, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Hugo von Ueckendorf, Westfalia Miniatures

A spear armed warrior in the colors of the von Ueckendorfs.

The first warrior of Hugo von Ueckendorf

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The first Helbard armed warrior of Hugos Mesnie.This figure is a slight miss cast as the features of the face are very blurry. More over the next days.

Hugo von Ueckendorf

24. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Dragon Rampant, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfman goat rider, Halfmen, Hugo von Ueckendorf, Westfalia Miniatures

Here is the first Westfalia Miniatures Goat rider painted up. I present to you Hugo von Ueckendorf on his war goat “Attila”. Ueckendorf is a part of modern Gelsenkirchen but it is one of the oldest parts of the city mentioned as far back as 1200. Hugo carries the arms of modern Ueckendorf on his shield. The shield is freehand.

Next up Hugos warriors!

Building a Styrodur ( extruded polystyrene ) medieval public house

22. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, Styrodur building, Styrodur model building, terrain, terrain building, wargames terrain, Wargaming terrain

The next project I started , apart from the halfmen army, is this medieval public house. It can certainly be used for fantasy games ,too. When finished it will have a stable and an outhouse added. I used styrodur , an extruded polystyrene, toothpicks and teddy bear fur for building. First I build all the walls of the first and second floor and inscribed the detail of the wood into the door and wooden beams as well as all the stonework in the window and door arches as well as in the chimney.

The next step was the assembly of the walls and the floors. The base is a piece of MDF.

In the pictures you can also see the beginning of the construction of the roof.

Next I mixed some filler with black gesso and painted all the walls , in between the beams and around the windows and door. When dry you get a nice rough surface like seen in lime washed buildings.

Next step is to glue on the teddy bear fur on the roof to simulate thatch. This is only glued on at the moment, it needs to be straitened out a bit and has to be painted with a PVA mix later .

Here are some close ups of the wood and stone structures:

More when I have done a bit more work on it!

The completed Halfmen militia unit

21. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Dragon Rampant, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Halfmen militia, Westfalia Miniatures

Here is the last missing halfman. The Banner bearer . The banner will be added at a later time:

And here is the completed unit:

Next up will be Hugo von Ueckendorf and his mesnie.

Only one Halfman missing to complete the unit!

18. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Dragon Rampant, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Halfmen militia, Westfalia Miniatures

And another halfman with a weapon swop . again a Perry plastic weapon head instead of the original weapon.

So now only the Banner bearer missing to complete the unit . The next unit will be the Mesnie of Hugo von Ueckendorf.

Another two Halfmen

17. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Halfmen militia, Westfalia Miniatures

Here are the next two halfmen:

The next halfman this time with a weapon swop

16. November 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, fantasy, fantasy wargaming, Halfmen, Halfmen militia, Westfalia Miniatures

Here is the next halfman. Sorry for the blurry picture somehow my camera failed on me 😦

I swoped the weaponhead of the original figure with a helebard head from a perry plastic set to get more diversity in the unit here is the original and the changed figure next to each other: