The brewery is now roofed (rooved?), once the fermenting balls are detailed it’ll be ready for painting. A little tidying to do on the edge of the roof but the glue was drying.

A couple of shots of the board as it stands. You see the walls are now up around the brewery and ready for texturing. It’s all cramped, but that’s exactly how I wanted it. Areas of the town will be more expansive, but this is the slummy/light industrial area.

Quite happy with the second shot. I’ll take one again once I have it painted. I’m hoping for something similar to the streets I saw in creet, all overhanging balconies and narrow passages.

Which brings me nicely to this:

the second house for the brewery board. It looks a little odd at the moment, but it needs a frame erecting on the top. The idea is it’s a ramshackle little building the owner keeps extending. So you’ll see the existing roof line, then it’s raised up with boarding and a new level is being added.

It’s inspired by the quote in many of the Discworld Books “what Ankh Morpork is mostly built on is Ankh Morpork” (to mangle it badly). I love the idea it’s a growing, living town with stories behind most buildings. I really dislike the empty feeling you get in games where it’s just a scene, cheap props with no depth. I want this town to have a representable tale.

That’s the theory anyway!

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I know, masses to do. There’s a wall to put right around the raised area, a second house to put on the far side of the first, then some sort of path on the near side of the slope.

The second house is going to be undergoing an extension, so it’ll be completed up to the first floor, then the roof will have been removed and there will be a wooden frame in place. Trying to give more access to things. It was a plan from the start to have this not as a ruined town, but as one being built or at least expanded.

Also on show in that pic is my latest piece, the brewery chimney. It needs linking to the brewery itself, but I’m very happy with the result. It’s made from polystyrene cut into bricks, glued up all haphazard, textured with sand and painted. The top is a combination of some random Action Force bit and the safety cover from a firework rocket fuse. Random is the best way forward.

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The small house is for the brewery tile, I’m going to do another one of a similar size to go next to it, overlooking the brewery courtyard.

I’m not 100% sure about the finish, I’m not the world’s greatest painter by any stretch, but I like to try and develop a style early on in a project that I like, and I’ll be happy to continue throughout. The “white” bits were a bit of a pain. Everything was primed black, then I tried to drybrush white upwards, the whole thing ended up looking like a black and white photo!

So I used a white wash (never done a wash in white before) to flatten out the panels and it looked better. The advantage being it also loosened some of the black primer giving the white a streaky, weather worn look. It would benefit from further weathering and the like, I may come back to it later.

The roof line needs a little tidying, always the way when you come to photo it you spot the errors. Probably because it’s so much bigger on screen. Finally the wood work would definitely benefit from another, lighter tone drybrush. It’s only had one so far.

However these things aside I’m rather happy with the end result, certainly from a couple of feet away (as I expect the whole thing to be viewed) it’s rather effective.

Not been a wasted weekend, the watchhouse tower is almost painted, and the watchhouse itself is now textured. Also casting like crazy for the next new tile. Oooh, suspense huh?

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The doors have just been finished and mounted, they’re almost full height (two storey). The brewery itself needs work but I’ve started the detailing. Just cut some balsa to do the heavy duty beaming work. I need a few more bits and bobs for the fermenting balls, then I’ll put some seams on them and try and add a patina effect to try and emulate brass.

I think this piece will live or die with the courtyard. If I can decorate it suitably it should look pretty slick. Need to find some decent sized barrels. If anyone knows where I can get some 2″ scale barrels I’d appreciate a heads up, all I can find are normal small ones.

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The second and third layer will give me nice height to the whole town when complete. I hope.

The brewery goes up one level, but it will be an enclosed courtyard so it won’t need to join onto anything. All sides will be textured so tiles can butt together even if there are mismatched layers.

The space front right is for the town house, the little triangle front left is a running theme through the boards, just a small section of cobbles to give a consistency to the boards so they should join nicely. The roads are all done from textured wallpaper.

Should get a photo of each of the boards with the current buildings in place.

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The pink windows are resin accessories from Antenocitis.

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This was one of the first buildings I planned, it just had to go in there. It will be surrounded by a walled courtyard (to keep out the undesirables). Just basic structure at the moment.

There are going to be a set of decorative gates at the head of the courtyard, adorned with a pair of brass dwarves (the as yet to be named founding fathers of the brewery).

The dwarf statues are a pair of very old plastic dwarf warriors. Also started on the wooden gates but need to hang them first.

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