Yes, I am alive. Due to various factors, the most I have been able to motivate myself for these last 5 months has been the occasional comment on the blogs of others; sometimes not even that. However, this is not the time nor the place to discuss those issues. Suffice to say, I am back.
Across the Christmas period, I constructed a Fantasy Barn. I chose this project because I thought it would be relatively easy, and a good way to lay down some skills for some more ambitious projects in the future. Also, I have started to paint some Warhammer (5th edition style, of course) miniatures, and so I need a suitable photographic backdrop!
The barn structure was based on the templates from the old White Dwarf article by Phil Lewis.
I blew them up to A3 size on a photocopier and used them to cut card-board profiles to build up the basic shape of the building. This is a technique I learned from Tony Harwood‘s excellent books.
I then covered the structure in papier-mâché – a technique I have not used since I was about 5 years old(!), but which also came from Tony Harwood’s book.
I then clad the structure in balsa wood planks and tiled the roof with cardboard tiles.
All in all it was pretty simple and turned out ok, I think. It took 2 evenings to build and about 1.5 hours to paint.
Classic Warhammer 40K 
Very cool mate. Bringing the old school into the new school. I like the barn but I really want damage it and make it look like a ruined barn hehe. I like ruins
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A Mordheim-esque ruined city is on the cards for one day…. especially if GW re-releases Mordheim! Glad you like it though.
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lovely, i intend to build one of them myself real soon.
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Thanks, Terry! 🙂
It was not hard, to be honest, though as I went through the process I certainly came across many ways to improve the next project. Which as this was a learning process, was the idea! But overall I learned some stuff, and got a useful piece of terrain out of it too 😉
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That worked out nicely. Going for a more dense block rather than box structure is interesting.
I hope that you make a few more buildings in that style, I can imagine a nice little farm or hamlet made that way.
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Thanks, Cheetor 🙂
I plan to make at least 2 more buildings, possibly some other farm type stuff (like a pig-sty or something similar), and some European-style woods across the next 6 months…. I want to end up with a terrain set-up and photo-backdrop reminiscent of the 1990s White Dwarf photographs…. Hopefully that is a modest enough project that it will actually happen… along with painting some “Red-Era” Warhammer figures too! And I will also keeping up slow and steady on the Classic 40K stuff… Phew!
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Classic barn dude – I spent hours pouring over that, and still have that modeling workshop in a folder somewhere! Great to see you back in the sadle too mate 🙂
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Thanks, mate 😉
More stuff coming soon……
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Really nice!
good job man! 🙂
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Thanks! Glad you like it 🙂
More coming soon(ish)….
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Nice scratch build!
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Thanks, mate! 🙂
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Great looking model and thank you for the links.
Tony
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Thanks, Tony – I’m glad you like it and thanks for the tips and inspiration 🙂
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[…] I found to be exceedingly easy; it was much faster to construct the basic structure than was the cardboard formers used in the barn and it weighs much less, though it is also much less […]
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Sorry it’s late – but you have my permission to use the image.
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Many thanks 🙂
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