The late medieval/Tudor house is finished, so I thought I'd add some more up-to-date buildings to the ECW village in the shape of two Jacobean houses. The style preceded the ECW by a couple of decades or so, and look quite different from the half timbered/fachwerk* style of the previous century.
I've got the bulk of the painting done, settling on the characteristic Jacobean warm orange-red brick. It's a little too hot in appearance, so I'll probably tone it down a bit with a yellow-brown wash. The window bays and doorways are antique white as these were usually built from pale coloured stone.
Just the windows and doors to do. I'll omit the style's more fiddly detail since these are working models for the gaming table.
Speaking of gaming... I hope to run a solo ECW game sometime this next week. My table has been up and ready for months yet I haven't played a game on it. With luck and a following wind, I also hope to visit family and friends in Britain either next month or November, at which time I'll retrieve a load of figures, models and books which have languished in storage since I emigrated.
*No, not a 1980's German technopop band. Rather the German name for the half-timbered style.
2 comments:
Now they look rather splendid!
Thanks, Michael! I pressed on with them this afternoon. The chimney stacks of this period have the barley-sugar twist, which is not the easiest to model, so I'm leaving those til last.
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