Here's to celebrate my ten years on this forum: a group of houses I finally finished over this winter.
I originally bought the houses built & painted seven years ago, in 2012. Then I added details, like chimneys, mostly from the GW plastic buildings and greenstuff. Somewhere earlier on this thread you will see some progress with the details already years ago.
The real push towards finishing the eternity project came with the decision to put everything on a base and to build a proper courtyard with walls (using the GW plastic walls). I also added a wooden shed and some detail on otherwise bland house walls. This happened over the past winter.
Here's the beginning of the shed:
Shed finished, walling planned. Also almost made an outhouse, but that part of the project still waits to be finished.
Textured the base, pre-glued grass to make out which parts needed sand:
Prepared the stoning & sand with layers of red, grey and yellow sprays. I didn't have brown at hand, and figured a nice mixture of paint would bring some hues on the finished scenery. It might have done so, but I've since gone and bought that brown spray.
Glued the grass.
After this, I added static grass to cover the seams and add texture. And painted. And used a lot of pigments to weather & age the stone surfaces.
So fond of houses now that I bought & started to build this Tudor tavern:
My painting table still has some Empire or Empiresque minis on square bases. Half-painted, so should be easy to finish some time soon.
A choice of minis by my daughter:
You can see the finished calf and bunnies in the courtyard of the finished houses, above.
-Z