LeeH - Medieval Town & Church (30 Points)

I had intended to get the last units of my Tudor army finished this week but time got away with me and so I decided to do something ‘easier’ this week by skipping ahead to some medieval buildings. As it was, they were decidedly more tricky and intricate than anticipated…painting medieval wood frame buildings in 2mm is very fiddly! All the buildings are from Brigade Models and are wonderfully detailed for 2mm buildings. The surfaces also have a bit of texture to them which makes painting flat surfaces like plain walls or roofs easier. 

Confident I knew what I was doing I then decided to have a go at a small town with a much larger church, which may be associated with a monastic order or a saint. There are more streets, and larger buildings all tightly clustered around muddy roads. As would be typical for a market town I made the main street a little wider than the side roads. For the groundwork, I used my usual mix of turf with some lighter-colored grass patched for contrast. The penultimate stage was to soak a few small clumps in PVA and glued them into place to represent trees. The last step was a dabble of textured paint (European Mud, by Vallejo) to blend the roads and bare patches in a bit better. Overall I’m pretty happy with my first foray into 2mm town planning!

I also did this small country church. There’s not much to say about this other than the detail is very fine for such a small model and there was little to zero cleaning required prior to undercoating. 

Points Estimate:

I honestly haven't got a clue. Using the 6x6x6 cube method, this lot is worth about 1 point! So clearly, that doesn’t work for smaller scales. I reckon each building is like painting a 15mm figure in terms of detail painting, but I’ll leave that tricky judgment to poor Teemu. You may have to ask the Snow Lord for a ruling on this as I couldn’t find a precedent from previous entries?? 

Best of luck mate, and I’ll have my fingers crossed for a high number 😉

From TeemuL: This is a tricky judgement, indeed. Based on the very strict cube counting by yesterday's minion I have my hands tied to the sections, subsections and paragraphs, but may be my inability to understand them results in variations. 6x6x6 (the devilish code) means one, so I'll give you one. One cube, that is, meaning 20 points. And 10 more from the bonus category. If someone feels the scoring is way off in any direction, just let me know, and I'll do my best to correct my errors. :)

These building are so nicely painted, that it is difficult to see their real size, which might have affected my minioning. There are no measurements to take guidance from, I could easily accept them being 15mm buildings and worth bucketload of points, but I'll take your word for them being 2mm. They look very nice, Lee!