Rustic Farm Houses for the Med

 

Gods but I do love taking rec leave. I get to finish off all those little half completed hobby jobs. In between deciding what figures to paint next, I'm doing a massive amount of basing but also finishing off some terrain pieces.

This and the following model are typically scratch built 28mm farm buildings for the Mediterranean theatre and I had in mind Roman through to Spanish Napoleonic options.
 

They are built onto MDF bases with 5mm foam-board with corrugated cardboard for the roofs. The plaster effect is diluted brushed on pre-mixed putty.

The exposed mud brickwork is simply tears in the paper foam-board covering and then etched brick patterns with a pencil into the foam.
 

Doors and shutters are good old-fashioned balsa.

These new buildings are in keeping with my minimal foot-print approach = smaller buildings are better.
 

You may have noticed I have a bit of a thing for pigs.

I've been struggling with how to approach my built up terrain. I had been a fan of dedicated 30cm square habitation sections with multiple buildings. I think for the time being I can always cluster buildings and we can agree on the hamlet/village boundary which allows for less rigid parameters.