The castle has come a long way since May and my enthusiasm is still raging at full strength (which is weird for me since I get bored quickly on large projects). I’ve not felt this excited about a model since I made my own Weathertop a few years ago.
But I realise that I could potentially spend an awful lot of time on this one model and then find I have insufficient time left before the convention for the remaining bits and pieces and the quality would be ‘compromised’ in favour of finishing everything by the deadline.
So August will be my month where I get a lot of the smaller things done – the trees, hedges, fences, signposts, walls, sheds, and as much of the farmhouse as I can fit into four weeks. And then back onto the castle in September. I’ve got about 20 trees that I made for a White Dwarf article a few years ago (sadly never published), but they are based in a more ‘fantasy’ style, so I’ll rebase them first up and then work on some other bits and pieces.
I did a sketch of the farmhouse on the weekend and have included a scan of it below. It should be about 12″ x 15″ over all. Also included is a picture of a dinosaur I picked up at a toy shop that I really liked – it’s for the game, honest!
A hobby farm
My youngest has claimed this already.
ok mate here you go I guess living in germany for 7 years a german ex wife and a 20 year old daughter finally come in handy. Farm is 1 of 2 either Landwirtschaft or Bauernhof. The latter is more of a hobby farm and just in case a farmer is a Bauer. I would use Bauernhof, more widely accepted.
“My youngest has claimed this already.”
That is because the Triceratops is the coolest of all the dinos!! 🙂