Ruined manor house

by Lee Sheppard

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<td valign="top">After making a couple of smaller buildings for

Mordheim, I soon wanted to have a go at something that was a

little bit bigger and thus more challenging. This building

represents a ruined former manor house, complete with a walled

yard (with gates through which wagons and/or carriages could be

brought). The modelled damage is meant to represent the building

having been hit by a large chunk of debris when the comet struck

the centre of the city.</td>

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<td valign="top">The house is made of the standard foamcore, balsa

wood, 3mm MDF (for the base), cardboard, sand and sprue rubble

materials I use for all of my buildings. As can be seen from the

photos, both the roof and first floor can be removed to allow

access for the placing of figures. As with my other Mordheim

constructions, all steps are built large enough to hold a

miniature (useful for my Dwarf Warband, who seem to very rarely

make it all the way up or down any building in less than 2

turns).</td>

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<td valign="top">Each part was completed and painted separately,

starting with the ground floor and walls for the yard, then the

first floor, and finally the roof. After I had made the first

floor I found that I could still see gaps between the base of

the first floor and the top of the walls of the ground floor. To

rectify this, I added strips of balsa wood to the base of the

first floor, which then fitted snugly over the outside of the

ground floor walls, hiding any gap.</td>

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<td valign="top">Painting took some time, with lots of drybrushing

of stone walls (the gritty stone effect is created by dabbing

pre-mixed "polyfilla") and wooden floorboards and

supports. I'm very pleased with how it turned out in the end.</td>

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