Borders Buildings

As regular visitors will recall, my new project is skirmish level adventure amongst the Border Reivers, circa 1550-1605. I have finally this week ordered a few figures from the exquisite "Graven Images" range, now produced by Hokahey Miniatures. Hopefully these will be winging their way from the UK in the not too distant future.....

In the meantime, I have been constructing a number of appropriate buildings to use when we finally get the figures on the table. Progress on these has been about as fast as the current upgrade work on the Auckland Southern Motorway - six years and still counting - which is to say, glacial! It has not helped that I have not actually finished the first building I starter, the Pele Tower - and its not here tonight because I still haven't done all the basing - not to mention furniture for inside the rooms...

However, inspired by Mark over at 1866 and All That, who starts work on a building on a Monday night and by Friday, its completed, I have at last managed to finish off a few of the Reivers buildings, which are presented below

 

First up is a Bastle House, the typical defensive farmhouse of the border region. Access is by a second floor doorway, reached by a ladder that can be pulled up when Reivers come a calling...

 

Rear view with a four pot chimney

 

 

The interior of the Bastle House - the ladies are probably a bit over dressed for this more modest abode

 

The three village cottages I have constructed so far - pretty easy to do, so more will follow

 

Cottage One

 

Cottage Two

Cottage Three, with a small sheep pen at the rear

 

 

That's all for tonight - all buildings are constructed with card, balsa wood and match sticks, the stone walls, slate roofs and wooden doors/ floors are printed paper and the turf roofs are made from hand towels.