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Making Grass
Well laid grass enhances the other detail in a project and like moss, can add a great deal of lushness to a project. A lot of times grass can end up looking flat, or too much like a golf course. Here...
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Tudor Row Houses – Part 3
The next steps of this project were to finish the main row of houses, and paint up all of the finished buildings. I began by testing out the paint scheme by painting the corner house. I went with...
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Cool Mini or Not?
I’ve started adding compilations of my work to the voting site for miniatures: Cool Mini or Not. I need 50 votes on each of these to be a ranked artist on the site. Help me out by clicking on the...
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Tudor Row Houses – Part 4
Part 4 brings us the roof sections. Using my standard method, I began by creating a cardboard base, then I cut a ton of shingle strips and began affixing them to the roof base. I deviated a bit from...
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Making Convincing Ivy
This method of making wall climbing ivy is not for everyone, but for those who are willing to put in the time and effort, the payoff is worth it. 1. Materials: Birch seed spacers, roots, green paint,...
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Standing Stones
In Rackham’s Confrontation there is a scenario where one team must destroy the religious idols of the other. These are the objective markers that I made to be destroyed. Of course, they would also...
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Ancient Monastery – Part 1
This is a project that I began back in 2009. It is unfinished and still sits in my basement. I hope to someday return to it and see it through to completion. It is, at the moment, my white whale. I...
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Why this site hasn’t been updated in a while (aka. March 1, 2015)
I know that for many visitors in the last 10 months, this site seems like it has been abandoned. I can assure you completely that it has not. You see, I am a teacher by trade, and since January of 2014...
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Back in Business
As promised, March 1 is here and I am done with school. It has been an incredible journey, and there is no doubt that I am a better teacher for the experience. But as that isn’t really what this blog...
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Tudor Row Houses – Part 5
Part 5 (finally) brings us to some of the detail work on this project. 1. First up, the lead flashing around the chimneys and roof lines. In order to create this look, I knew it would have to be a...
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Tudor Row Houses – Disaster (Part 6)
An 11th Hour Calamity This should be a post about the successful completion of this project. It should be accompanied by another post showing the final pictures of a beautiful piece. Unfortunately,...
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Tudor Row Houses – Recovery (Part 7)
After the disaster I created in the previous installment of this project, it was time to pick up the pieces and try to recover. This, of course, meant trying to discover just how bad the damage really...
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Tudor Row Houses
Finally Done After a very long time this project is finally done. Such relief cannot be expressed. All of the hard work has paid off and the end product is definitely worth it. The new wall looks good...
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