Rohan village

 

An overhead of the houses so far.

Not Middle Earth - Google Earth.

You're right. Bottom left is work in progress.

Rohan wooden roof

The previous house used up nearly two complete roofs

so I have walls only, for the next one,

I'll try overlapping wood using coffee stirrers.

Must have been some tree!

I've cut card to size for the next house

and snipped down the stirrers to match.

Then I've glued them, overlapping, like tiles.

We'll see how it goes.

 

The brothers not so grim.

 

Stop grinning, the pair of you.

This is a serious game!

Rohan Mead Hall finished?

                                                        Well, it went back together OK.

I say finished but I always spot unfinished areas

when I see them on the blog.

I think a little more brown wash on these roofs?

The top decoration is missing its gold paint.

Perhaps more colour on the planking?

Then there's the base.

I have a cunning plan.

Rohan in ruins?

 

The mead hall wasn't quite square so I put two pieces of sprue across,

at roof level, putting the whole thing rectangular again.

I'd glued on both porches, washed and dry brushed the roof - it was done.

Just a base needed.

Then I dropped it!!!

Charlie!

Thank goodness it's repairable.

Rohan second roof

 

This side, not at all bad.

T'other, not quite such a fit, the ridge being the problem,

but not at all bad.

I've not much Greenstuff left.

Might try the remains of the Milliput.

This side doesn't show a problem on the main roof.

You have to cut out a small piece when it rests on the 'new' walls.

In the first shot you can see that my cut out is a little too large,

so that it is just about visible.

Now I have all these wall pieces and no roof.

I'm hoping Super John's new hessian material will be useful.

(In the post)

Rohan roof joint

Putting together parts of a kit shouldn't compare in terror with rock climbing or swimming with sharks but trying to cut these roof parts to match them to the slope of the existing roof scared the pants off me.

The twit who already made six errors on something built many times before, could easily muck it up.

I used card as a template and then offered the parts up for alterations.

Only one needed, I think.

I've chamfered the edges to make the join less Greenstuff hungry.

I'll leave them overnight on the facia timbers

and make a test fit in the morning.

Fingers crossed.

Rohan Porches 2

 

Both porches nearly done with just the door knobs and decoration to do.

An even simpler design for the 'simple' porch

as I'd cocked up previously and used up the parts.

As before, I've used Mechanicus Standard Grey

and then dry brushed up through the gears

(Administratum, then Fortress)

I've used washes on some of the planks of the building

and will do the same on these porches.

The thatch is undercoated German Armour (Flames of War)

I think GW suggest Deathworld Forest which might look better.

I'll save it for Bree.

For the areas at the gable ends I've used Tallarn Sand, 

Rohan porches

 

Slow going as I'm waiting for another roof section.

I'm due another box from Wayland Games today.

Meantime I assembled the porch for both doors.

The fancy one for the front and a simpler one for the rear.

I think this is cock-up number six.

I was feeling smug about my success

in imitating corner posts for the horse heads

when I realised I'd arranged this porch

to butt up against thatch.

It doesn't.

Twit!

Rohan open door

 

The open door experiment is literally rough around the edges

but with more care and decent lighting it would look fine.

Using an old hacksaw in a dark shed was not clever.

(Note the product placement!)

Another example of rushing things in less than ideal conditions.

How could I make the same mistake twice!

This 'Mead Hall' shape requires two complete roofs

which leaves a lot of wall pieces spare.

I'm not sure I like the two story idea but by having two stories

uses up spare walls and creates spare roof pieces.

I cannot do it with this one as I've already fixed the two gables.

I've sent for another box from the excellent Wayland Games UK 

to provide the extra roof parts.