The ECW Manor house project thread - Updated

[gorgarrak]

looking lovely, oh for not doing an interior.
The manor will look a fine addition to a battlefield or display case, are the windows to be leaded or just glossed?

Mike

[Cubster]

That's making me grin.

[mikeland]

Update:
Tiling on roof finished and first base coat On:

Quite hard to see but I added a little very fine sand to the walls to give them a bit of texture.



And two out buildings for the small rear court yard:

A stable and a stone outhouse



Next steps are continuing with Painting and then the courtyard floor.

@gorgarrak
Not 100% decided yet on the windows, but wire mesh leading was a fail...

[carvel2]

Fantastic Mike...more work tonight?

[Cubster]

I'm not big on the hyperbolae, but that is just absolutely superb and a bleedin' great thing of beauty.

[mikeland]

Thanks chaps.

[grant]

I'm not big on the hyperbolae, but that is just absolutely superb and a bleedin' great thing of beauty.

Completely agree - just wow!

[Invisible officer]

Great, in every sense.

[mikeland]

Having done the base coat I am now in a bit of a quandary ... what colour to do the window frames. My plan all along has been to do them in dark brown, but now they are painted in the base coat I'm not sure... And the examples i have looked at give a whole variety of colours, and lets face it, window frames do get repainted or replaced so it is hard to know what is historically right.

So my options...

Stick with dark brown
Go with a lighter brown
Off white
Or leave them the base colour,

Any thoughts?

[westwaller]

This is looking really good Mikeland!
The windows wouldn't have been black painted like Tudor buildings would they? It is only what springs to mind I have no knowledge. Come to think of it maybe the would have been stone window frames so would be the same colour as the rest of the building?