Sunday 5 April 2020

A Couple of Plastic Cottages

A while ago I bought several plastic building kits online,  the order consisted of 4 Tabletop Workshop buildings and a Perry's Miniatures medieval cottage. I cleaned them, primed them, and then they sat in that state for about two years. I have managed to get 2 of that order done in the last week or so.
 The tabletop top kits have great texture, the wood grain is nice and pronounced and the daub is well rendered. The kits are robust with roofs that are mean't to come off.  The doors, hinges, windows and shutters are clean and crisp; the interior walls are also nicely detailed.
The downside of the kit are the tabs that connect the walls to each other, similar to MDF kits, and the coarse thatching of the roof.
The Perry's cottage is not as robust, is more in line with traditional model kits, made out of thinner styrene and I would consider it more delicate. Although I have left then roof removable, the interior has no details like the Tabletop Workshop kits. 
The thatch is perfectly sculpted, as is the daub. The detailing of the wood features is quite faint. Although more realistic in scale, dry brush and wash won't give as satisfying result as it does on the TW products.
My next post in a couple weeks time will be of  Tabletop Workshop's Town House and Merchant's House.

20 comments:

  1. Great work on these, and they have come up very well. It is disappointing when there is only faint detailing as you have to work much harder, but these look very good indeed.

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  2. Those were some great kits. I wonder what happened to the old Tabletop Workshop kits and designs.

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    1. I believe Warlord has the rights and is still making them; it says "made to order" in the description which seems odd for a plastic kit.

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  3. Scratch off those old projects! Nice work!

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    1. Yes, the other two are now primed and ready to sit for the next couple of years....

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  4. Thank you everybody for your compliments.

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  5. Two years is not such a long time in the big scheme of things. Or so I would tell myself. 😀
    Great job on the houses! They look great on the table.

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  6. Great Stuff Cod!

    Looking forward to melee around them soon!

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  7. Great stuff mate, I agree the tabletop world thatch is a little too cartoony, you could replace it, but it is a bit of work thecother thing that bothers me is no chimney. I have sculpted one on mine from greenstuff, in the painting line at the moment.

    Cheers
    Matt

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    1. A chimney is an excellent idea- I will consider that on the next two buildings.

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    2. They are lovely..fine paint job
      Most (if not all) 1 storey early medieval peasant houses didn´t have chimneys. A hole at the top of the gable wall (possibly also louvres) Or in the roof (hiped roofs) covering it
      MEDIEVAL COTTAGE FROM HANGLETON, SUSSEX
      https://www.flickr.com/photos/55437272@N08/15084043798
      Comeston houses
      https://richiebilling.com/2018/01/12/the-pesky-peasantry-of-the-middle-ages/
      or a hole in the roof´s ridge that sometimes had a raised covering (I think these are also called louvres)to stop rain coming in...
      https://www.medieval.eu/wp-content/uploads/WEB-hedebyhus-moesgaard-rekonstruktion-500x375.jpg
      ...or in tiled roofs,Louvred Ridge Tiles


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    3. Thanks Paul, very interesting info.

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  8. Excellent looking buildings! Very impressive!

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  9. I think they both look great.

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  10. Lovely cottages! You really inspired me to build more of these!

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  11. These are both nice kits that I’ve also built. You’ve done a cracking job of painting them.

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