A little progress on the barn

2. December 2016 thomasriepe 28mm, barn, terrain, terrain building, wargaming

Here are some more pictures of the barn of the medieval public house. You can find pictures of the public house here and the first pictures of the barn here. I finished the walls and will do the roof at the weekend. Next will be the privy and then painting the buildings and doing the base.

More to come on Monday!

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!

Here are the refurbished TSS tiles

26. September 201626. September 2016 thomasriepe terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS, wargames terrain

So now I finished redoing the first batch of my terrain tiles. 8 river tiles and 11 hill tiles. There are a lot more tiles to be done as you can see on the pictures as I mixed old ones with the redone ones to build the table you see on the pictures. There are some more river tiles, open grassland tiles, track tiles and some settlement tiles to be redone or newly build over the next coming months . Here are the pictures !

Hope you like what you see

Just realized that I didn’t put up a before and after picture:

The TSS tiles before flocking commences

9. September 2016 thomasriepe hill contours, river boards, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

Here are all tiles I am working on at the moment . I finished dry brushing the rocks and will start flocking everything at the weekend.

As you can see the original flocking is not the same on the boards, so I will have to change that during flocking. The flock used will be the one you can see on the river boards. But this will only be the flocking base I will add different shades and length of grass to make it look more natural.

Started coloring the rock faces of the hills

8. September 2016 thomasriepe hill contours, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

I managed to dry brush the first layer of the rock faces in. This is a heavy drybrush of a medium grey. This will be followed by a few more layers of increasingly lighter shades of grey.

The colors are only different on the pictures as the lighting wasn’t equal on every picture. Sorry.

Completed the earth shades on my Hill tiles

6. September 2016 thomasriepe hill contours, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

I completed the earth shades of my hill tiles yesterday. I used a basecoat of light brown, a wash of van dyk brown and a highlight of light brown. All done with an airbrush.

The above picture shows the basecoat and the wash only. The following pictures show the completed earth shades:

Now there is only the gravel and the rocks to be painted then the flock.

Another step in building my terrain contour hills

1. September 2016 thomasriepe hill contours, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

I managed to add rocks gravel and sand to the first 4 terrain tiles:

Only another 7 to do. Next step is painting the rocks and sand .

I used old TSS tiles to build Hill contours

30. August 2016 thomasriepe hill contours, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

The next project in my terrain refurbishing project was creating a hill contour to elevate the terrain another 4 cm ( the hight of a tile) . I will use these to represent contour lines on the table like on maps.

On this picture you can see the old tiles . These were donated by my good friend Simon. Thank you again Simon!

The white slabs of Styrene will be the conectors between the different tiles to make the contours modular. They were shaped with a template and cut with a hot wire cutter. This is the template in action:

Here you can see the hill contour build up with styrene and cork bark:

And in another configuration:

Next step was to add ready mixed filler:

That is how far I got last weekend. I have another 7 tiles to do. I will add pictures to the blog when I do the next step.

The next step of the renovation of my river tiles.

29. August 2016 thomasriepe river boards, terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

Here are pictures of the first layer of the river painted . I used a mix of PVA , ready mixed filler and blue paint to get rid of the styrene structure on the board:

I will post pictures when the river is completely painted. Before flocking the boards I will start doing hill contour boards too. I want to do the flocking on all boards simultaneously to get the look consistent.

Next step in redoing my TSS river tiles

23. August 2016 thomasriepe terrain, terrain building, total system scenic, TSS

Over the weekend I could do a bit more work on my river tiles. Next step was painting the gravel and rocks in a basecoat brown ( I use Schminke acrylics for all my terrain painting).

Then I applied a wash of Van Dyk brown ( Schminke) . I made the wash myself , following the instructions found on this video by the terrain tutor.

So you get something like this:

Then I did a dry brush with the basecoat color:

After that I did a wet brush ( basically a heavy dry brush with more paint on the brush then with a dry brush) followed by a dry brushed highlight on the rocks: