Houses

ochoin · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:50 am Post subject: Houses

I'm looking to make a small 18th century European village out of a few resin models I've bought.
These houses are all plaster walls (?) with exposed brick courses: do you know what I mean? They're a common type in Mittle Europa
Anyone got some inspirational pictures I could look at?
donald

Glynis_&_Gary · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

Something like this any use ?

http://www.romanticroad.com/rothenburg/sights.php

ochoin · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject:

Bit too medieval, sorry.
Pretty place though.
donald

Duck Crusader · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/17thc/Versailles11.jpg

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ochoin · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

I'm such a pain.
No, not rural but small town type houses.
donald

ochoin · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject:

I'm lucky this isn't Frothers: Gary & Duck would be telling me to go perform some impossible physical act by now.
donald

ochoin · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject:

Kinda like this.
http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_6/6_004.jpg
donald

levied troop · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject:

Do you need inspiration on colour Donald, or layout and ancillary items like yards, gardens, roads?
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Ronan the Librarian · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

Are these any help? Most of the images are of painted examples of central/eastern German buildings.

http://www.jrminiatures.net/15mmaustriabavaria.aspx

http://www.jrminiatures.net/15mmprussia.aspx

http://www.jrminiatures.net/15mmnapoleonic.aspx

I think an old edition of Wargames Illustrated had a series of pics of an East Prussian village built by Herb Gundt of H G Walls, which was excellent for layout and ancillary items such as dung heaps, cow byres, etc. I'll see if I can find it.
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Etranger · General Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 4091 Location: e-space

I'll have a dig around when I get a chance. Are you looking for photos of real or model buildings? The buildings sound a bit like the old Scenic Effects range of buildings which covered some Napoleonic battlefields in Mittel Europe.

Plaster or rendered walls were common, often coloured, using various shades, commonly an ochre. White paint was unusual until the 19th century, & limewash didn't last so wasn't often used. Colours would be fairly dull.

Wood was usuall y left exposed & unpainted, in which case it usually weathered to a gray shade fairly quickly. Brickwork was often left exposed but occasionally got a coat of paint (probably depending upon how posh the owner was!).

The roof could be slate or tile, depending upon local supplies. Occasionally stone flags were still being used. Roads would usually be mud or dust depending upon season.

This is actually in Oz, but it was built by a Silesian immigrant in c1840 & is identical to many that you'll find in Europe.
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Gungnir · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:13 am Post subject:

This is the link to the Dutch Open Air Museum, at Arnhem.

Move the magnifying glass acrioss the map, and click on any of the houses.

http://www.openluchtmuseum.nl/index.php?pid=249
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ochoin · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:15 am Post subject:

Well, thankyou everyone for bothering with such a befuddled request.
Some good stuff already.
As wierd as it sounds, it's easier to paint a model house looking at another model than at the real thing.
I like the hint about ochre rendering.
donald

Etranger · General Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 4091 Location: e-space

And if you want to be impressed (or alternatively depressed) by just what is possible in modelling, possibly both my & Gungnirs favorite site:

http://www.pendonmuseum.com/index.jsp
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Gungnir · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

That one is fantastic indeed, the only problem is that it ruins the frail ego of a mere mortal like myself.
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ochoin · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

Mere amateurs, gentlemen. I said what???

donald

Peewee · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject:

Pendon is brilliant, but if anyone says I said that I shall deny it...
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valleyboy · General Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 3526 Location: NZ

I've always found thios site a bit of an inspiration from the painting perspective
http://www.crescent-root.com/
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ochoin · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

Oh, yes. This is nice.
Thanks, donald