Thursday 12 January 2023

From PeterD Built Like A Hick Brit's House (20 points)

 


A terrain post for me in the form of three British Roundhouses.  This is a set of three houses sold by Sarissa as Irish houses but would work for many Celtic and similar Northern Europeans in the Ancient and Early medieval period.  They will also fit well in a TTG in my Beowulf DnD Campaign. 

The larger decogonal house.

One of the smaller octagonal houses.  I didn't paint the interiors except to blacken the floor her the door.

With the roofs removed, keen eyes will see that the houses are in fact not round but actually polygonal.  The two small ones are Octagonal and the larger Chief's house is a decagon.  Sarissa may have found that the regular polygons were easier to design and construct or they may have been attempting to estimate Pi by the Ancient technique of inscribing polygonal within a circle.





I had a hard time photographing these buildings and they look much less crappy in person.  I do need to give the roofs a trim obviously

As with all Sarissa kits, they went together easily and painted up nicely.  I added a bit of groundwork, Faux Fur thatching (narrowly avoiding having my wife add googly eyes to the unpainted fur) and smoke.  

According to the formula in text I am using for my MATH110 class they take up about a single terrain cube.  Math is as follows


I painted them in a variety of colours based on the photos from the Butser Hill Experimental Farm.  I have actually been to Butser Hill but it was long enough ago that it was showing off current technology.  I varried the terrascaping a bit for each house.  I figured that the head man's larger hut might be better tended and without weeds around it.

I realize that the attempted play on words may be lost on those who are not survivors of the 1970s.  However, in 1970s teenage lad speak the term "built like a brick sh*t house" was used to describe the figure of a young lady whose curves you admired.  Doesn't make much sense but neither do teenage lads or the 1970s for that matter.  The term hit its Cultural Zenith in giving the Commodores the inspiration for this classic bit of over top top 70s funk (note Lionel Ritchie sporting the Fro and blowing Sax in the horn line).  This video may give rise to many questions (particularly after the 3:00 mark), for which the universal answer is that it was 1978.


Link here in case Blogger doesn't like my insert.

No side duels or Theme Bonus on this, just 20 points straight up.

From TeemuL: Some fine houses here, Peter. I guess they are suitable for different battlefields. May be even something for those Lanciarii? Since I don't know the measurements of those buildings, I'm going to blindly approve your math, the results sounds about right, so I'll take it. "Build like a brick sh*t house" doesn't ring a bell, I was born 1978, so it might explain. I'm glad you explained it, since in my first Minion email I made it very clear, that when you native English speakers start to talk about "taking a butcher's knive" and "big girl's blouse", I'll be lost and confused. That bullet was dodged, thank you very much. :)

27 comments:

  1. Great scratch building there Peter!

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    1. Thank Sander. They are actually a kit. I just punched them out and glued them together.

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    2. all the same it goes way beyond my feeble skills!

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  2. Thanks Teemu. I feel the need to educate you and expand your vocabulary of English terms that you probably shouldn't know.

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    1. Much appriciated! Education goes both ways, it seems. :)

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  3. Great work on those multi-gonal buildings, Peter. They'll come in handy for your future games. Also, I love the Commodores insert (earworm and all). One suggestion for your thatched roofs is to coat the surface using something like Mod Podge. It does a great job of setting all those wayward strands and dries nice and clear (or you can paint it, if you wish). It's also great to put on your groundwork, especially talus that is prone to crumbling away. Again, just a suggestion. :)

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    1. Thanks Curt, have you nailed the intonation on Howse yet?
      FYI I did stick down my talus but wanted to get my pics up first. As I finished the roofs, I remembered that 8 normally do use a watered down glue to style the faux fur before painting them ….

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  4. Nice work Peter, they look great. I have a couple of those for my Celts. Might paint them up as part of my Celt projects.

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    1. They are nice kits. Look forward to seeing them

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  5. Bravo! Where else but the challenge can one come home from a stressful day and hit play on “Brick….Howse”. Unlike your minion my senior year was 78 and the Commodores bad a—. Well done spicing up the blog. The huts are great as well Peter.

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  6. Nice build Peter - as an old fly half I'm more familiar with the term "built like a brick shit house" as a term to describe he opposing back row" as opposed to a lady I might have wanted to date :-)

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  7. Great little houses! I’m old enough to remember the song, but I didn’t know the expression. Wasn’t old enough for that either (I’m from 1967)… Fun to learn though. Love the Commodores (but Three times a lady was lost on me too 😄). Ah, the innocence of youth!

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    1. Cheers Martijn. Learning is life’s great goal

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  8. Painting terrain plus math. This hurts to read. Make it stop!!

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    1. Thanks Barks. Supposedly it’s what I’m good at…

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  10. Excellent work, Peter! Great to see some top-grade math coming in very useful for a hobby-critical purpose. The buildings are going to be super-effective and really useful in so many games. Terrific work!

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    1. Thanks Sid. Who says you'll never use Geometry in real life?

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