A couple months later I am back, it just seems it takes
me forever to get projects finished these days. I’ve been pretty woeful
on the gaming front this year really only messing around with solo games
or with my daughters . I ve been liquidating various items from my collection in the last
few years. Specifically a lot of terrain, I had a ridiculous amount of the
tables and terrain still even after movings massive purge, So its feeling pretty good to clean
house. The Village of Blackbarrow table
which currently takes up 50 Square
Feet, (4x 8 with 2 and eventually 3 , 3 x
3 extensions in my basement)
Is now our hobby center piece. I’ve gone for complete homogeneity as I decided a couple years ago I was going to
replace all my old buildings with Hirst Arts buildings and I am well on my way.
I just recently completed this Fieldstone Church which I finished painting over
Thanksgiving weekend. Based on one of Bruce Hirst original plans, the Gothic Church. This build uses a variety of the Fieldstone Molds, the
Slate Roof Mold and few bits from the Gothic Arena Accessories mold.
The build was pretty straight forward. I did finally get a roof mold, I ran out of the Plastruct
Plastic roof I had been using for years and since its $5 a sheet, it made more sense to
spend 29 dollars on the roof mold as I have plenty of roofs to do and a few I
could redo. Thing about the Hirst Roofs, they add significant time to the
project, I spent as much time screwing around with the roof as I did on the
entire rest of the building , including the base. Some growing paints there for sure with the new mold and fitting and customizing the sizes, I am sure it will get easier.
All the Villages large structures are done unless I
decide to take on the epic and recent Watermill, which was released in the last
year or so, and I very well might. Next
up are the Blacksmith Shop and some Docks, leaving just small hovels and some
other shops, then it finishing the
Dungeon which I started way the heck back in 2010 and has growing at a snails
pace ever since. I plan creating either
one massive gallery the whole village when its complete, until then if your interested you can just watch
it grow piece meal. Hopefully I got few more things up my sleeve in hobby
department before years end. We will just have to see.
Fieldstone Church- HA molds 42, 70, 71,75, 701, 225, 245 and 260, several of these molds are redundant or use
just a couple a bits. You could build this almost identically with just molds 70, 75, 245 and 260, I just have the extra
molds for odd bits here and there as I have been building Hirst
for almost 10 years now. Casting material is standard Hydrostone, Paints are from Folk
Art Crafts, the Statues and Sun Sign are GW bits and the Miniatures from
Otherworld…Build time NOT including Casting or glue / paint daytime about 12 hours.
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| I plan on adding some stainglass type windows in the rear here, still figuring out what to do, any ideas are appreciated! |
