Tale of Four Gamers, Real Estate Edition

[Tauntaun Scout]

Hi,
I decided the best way to continue my Repanse de Lyonesse "4 Gamers" army was to do the same thing, only, with a CASTLE!

You can't easily fit a whole 28mm castle on a tabletop so I am going to make a section of a walled town or fort that abuts a table edge or two. The rest of the town is "offscreen".

I am going to paint one modular fortification, and one building, per installment, for a total of 6 installments. I won't space them out by a month this time though. I'll just post them as I go in more or less real time.

So to start a Renedra tower, and a chapel who's maker I can't recall right now. Both have a liftoff roof with a detailed interior room. You can also put units UNDER the tower to occupy the ground floor and see them through the portcullis. I put a pair of double doors on one side and a portcullis opposite it, so it can be a gatehouse in a town wall, or a standalone keep. I could also use to to fortify my bridge and river scenery, make it into a toll road or something. Anyone crossing the bridge would have to go through the gates. It doesn't have to be expensive to run a siege game!

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Onward and upward. I have painted a section of town wall, and a small wattle shed with thatched roof. Because of how I assembled stuff, the wall section won't properly join to the keep/tower thingy from the last installment.

What I basically have now, is nicer plastic versions of the card buildings from the 5th edition boxed set! Plus a wall. Time to go buy more kits. The chapel from before will house my priest (wizard) from the Bretonnian army. The hut will house sheep, a pig, and maybe also a sheepdog or two. I'll redo the livestock bases to match the army soon. The livestock are good objective markers if nothing else.

Also I realized I didn't include figures in the interior pics I took last time. So here are new ones.

I imagine the priest sleeping on the wooden benches and otherwise basically living in the chapel.

Only one floor of the tower is accessible for figures: Defend the book!!! Behold! The best objective marker ever. This tower is/will be a solid story higher than my other walls/towers so the inhabitants can shoot over the outer walls, to have a layered defense. Pay no attention to the creepy Hummel face in the upper right.

 

[Plaiecivile]

You are up for a good start, nice effect so far!
...And I really like your critters, although I tried clicking on them but they did not explode... (remember Warcraft?)

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

remember Warcraft?)

Remember? I never learned it. Video games waste valuable painting time.

 

[Caradepato]

Nice work Tauntaun! I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff.

 

[Just John]

They look great. I didn't realise those buildings had detailed interiors.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

They look great. I didn't realise those buildings had detailed interiors.

Yes they do. It's what makes them a good value compared to the time it would take me to scratch build something. The little shed doesn't but it is only $6.

I think next is another wall section and a Renedra farmhouse. The Perry's did a great job adding value to that kit, it's $30 but it comes with fences and a chicken coop.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Picked up another one today, this is their "Townhouse". Which makes sense cause I am making a town. It is the same floor (and probably overall the same CAD skeleton) as my chapel. But it's two stories. It should look pretty nice with color. The next fortification is a surprise.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Inspired by the city of Alatheim, I went and added a fenced in yard to the current house. Since few real houses are ever perfectly rectangular, I added a basic porch. My daughter wants me to paint it as a haunted house. So I guess it'll be the lair of the local monstrosity or necromancer.

 

[Caradepato]

Good stuff! Are those nubians?

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Yes they are. I was assembling my 28mm New Kingdom Egyptian army at the same time.

 

[Sleepysod]

Yes they are. I was assembling my 28mm New Kingdom Egyptian army at the same time.

Have you got any Egyptian scenery? I picked up some cheap but effective plaster cast statues and pillars but am looking for. Few more recommendations

 

[Caradepato]

Let me know if you post those somewhere, I'd love to see them. Currently working on sumerian terrain for a friend.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Yes they are. I was assembling my 28mm New Kingdom Egyptian army at the same time.

Have you got any Egyptian scenery? I picked up some cheap but effective plaster cast statues and pillars but am looking for. Few more recommendations

No but I plan on scratch-building some.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

Let me know if you post those somewhere, I'd love to see them. Currently working on sumerian terrain for a friend.

I won't get to the them for awhile. I have the better part of 1,000 point army primed. I am priming like crazy before the weather turns bad. I've got 20 unarmed civilians, 20 state spearmen, 12 mercenary swordsmen, 12 mercenary archers, and 2 chariots.

Most of these are BTD but a few are Wargames Foundry. The BTD ones seem to be OOP so I will put in a big Wargames Foundry order to bulk out the chariotry and add a couple big regiments of 20 state archers.

 

[Tauntaun Scout]

This project is dragging. Unfortunately, my local dice saloon is all out of Renedra castle kits and only does UK orders once in awhile to save on shipping. Le sigh.