Michaels 25mm WFB Stuff...

Doing my thread catchup! The farm looks amazing, awesome work and just great all put together. The inn is also looking so cool. You're really making me wish I was doing some building! Looking forward to seeing some paint on the Inn ... and a sign?
 
Michael Stockin said:
You do good stuff.
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Too kind. My summer build plans have been hampered by my poor memory! I built a castle for a large game as kids and I was sure it didn't make it past the "all white and ready to paint" stage and we used it like that in the game. So I recently extracted it from storage thinking I might pimp it up and actually finish it off over the summer, using my old work as a base ... to my surprise I found I had finished it! So other than spending an hour the other day dusting it and gluing on some broken bits I'm now wondering what to do with it. I'm not sure I want to rework it as it's a bit of my own history now! I might touch up the few chips and broken bits that I couldn't find. However I'm not sure anyone would really use it in a game these days and the base flock is patchy and yellowed (well faded I guess). So it's sat on the floor next to my desk with the intent that I'd photograph it and post it as a bit of nostalgic fun here...
 
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Slowly slowly.


I think it was about 8 hours to build it.
Now to paint it.


First stage of plaster done.

2 coats of white/grey, an ink wash, then a couple of white/grey drybrush passes.

Then painting on actual highlights and features etc, then onto the beams and windows, then more weathering.

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I do have some extra bits to add though, but figured I can paint them once I have made them and stuck them on.
Mostly the shutters I forgot.
 
I THINK what I am going to do is make the stables, though not brick as in Townscapes as that seems to clash with the Inns build, and put the stables and the Inn on the same MDF base.
Less flexibility, but I don't see myself using the Inn or the Stables as anything other than what they will be.
Plus a whole base looks nice.

Though admittedly storage may be an issue, off to measure the Ikea cabinets...
 
I am/was? not 100% convinced by the stables from Townscape.
The number of the doors seems a bit high and I am not sure if there would have been that many or just 1 big one that led to internal stalls.
Or simply fewer doors.

I have found loads of historical illustrations of coaching inns, but not so much for their stables.

I have found a few good resources for what the stable block at a coaching inn looked like, but if anyone here has some references to historical coaching inn stable blocks that would be awesome!
 
I don't have references but I guess it could be either based on available space. Using the yard's exterior wall as the back of the stalls, and having individual stalls with doors opening into the yard would save a lot of space. So likely in towns etc. more space and resources you could have a central corridor with stalls either side, or a midway with one larger barn with a corridor and stalls on one side off it . But also I guess the number of stalls would also reflect how many bedrooms/sleeping spaces there are?
 
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