Wallpaper streets

 Wallpaper again - but a decent result. Well I committed. This was an Easter weekend project, posting now though as real things got very real for a bit there. 

Anyhoo, this is Seriano Pietra Wallpaper, from here: https://ukwallpaper.co.uk/products/seriano-pietra-wallpaper-silver-1102.html

Although looking at the picture on the site, it doesn’t look like what I have. But works. It used to be available from B&Q for about the same price, so £2 a metre or so. It could be done cheaper, but wouldn’t look as nice and I don’t want to waste time with individual cobbles or anything like that. But it works and isn’t in the £100 plus range of some really good embossed wallpapers. I finally got round to covering the reverse side of my skirmish board. I couldn’t match the pattern for the life of me, so added a gutter and manhole to avoid that. Works for me and an underground access point could be interesting for scenarios. If I ever have the space for a proper sized table, I’ve plenty to spare. 

Market Hall finished - more or less

Finished Market Hall - well pretty much finished. Anything else will just be furniture and not bolted down.

Windows added. One day I will add them before any painting as they are a bloody pain and if you look closely some are bent and very knackered looking as I forced them in place.

I added a pamphlet about trials to the outer landing as that seemed apt. 

There is also an odd dead space above the outer stairs, so a Crooked Dice chest fills that nicely.

Market stalls…

Some market stalls… these are utilising some 3D printed tables which were pretty awful, the tops and goods they came with were unusable with such pronounced layer lines no paint job would help. They came with canopies which I think can be saved with a lot of work, but they will come later…

Fruit & veg with the previously shared baskets of fennel and carrots (and converted parsnips and red onions) and sack. The apple crate is from Ainsty if memory serves, the berries are railway scale apples (not that they say what scale) but with one of the empty baskets work nicely. Loose apples in greenstuff.

Cheese monger with the most popular cheese of the 17th century - Cheshire. I do my research. Made from jewellery beads, I took a press mold and did a greenstuff copy so I could slice one. Cutting board from balsa and cheese knife from plasticard. Wine bottle is a 3D print and the chest from Crooked Dice.

Pamphleteer. I added an overhead beam and a front piece so I could have display sheets. The pamphlets were found online, reduced and printed. The stacks were just multiple bits of paper, and greenstuff stones to keep them down if the wind picks up. Chest again from Crooked Dice.

Pottery of various types. Earthenware jugs made from nesting plastic tube. Large jug in wicker is from Fenris if memory serves, but may be Ainsty (had them an age). Plates and bowls from Oshiro. I pressmolded the topmost large plate to make a greenstuff shattered one under the table. Vase was from the terrible 3D print market set and smothered in liquid greenstuff. Again, chest from Crooked Dice. Loose apple and table cloth for some colour.

And an attempt at a group shot…

Various bits of scatter…

Some scatter - tents from Renedra and various trade goods from Ainsty. There were a lot of single wool/cotton(?) bundles and the L shaped stack, so I stuck five of the singles into the square stack for ease and should add to the market vibe…

Colonel Bills Elizabethan Border Reivers

 I was very kindly sent some samples for Colonel Bills new range of Border Reivers as I was curious how they scaled up.

I’d heard that the Flags of War Reivers were a bit big compared to most historicals, but that’s not the case here:

The photo is awful, but my desk is full of market hall bits at the moment. But, Antediluvian conquistador, Colonel Bills Reiver, TAG Elizabethan gent, Colonel Bills Reiver. Lovely figures and I will be getting more at some point.

Available here: https://www.colonelbills-store.co.uk/store/late-elizabethan-border-reivers-c131883566

Father Shandor - the comic strips 7-9

And that is all that are currently out there. There are synopses and the odd page scan of the subsequent stories, but nothing complete. Hey ho, hope this slight diversion from the usual nonsense was of interest…