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A peaceful little village somewhere on the Peninsula
Recently Fusilier Roly Hermans added a few new Spanish houses to his terrain, and painted some Perry civilians to inhabit them.
A year or two ago, I made some Spanish houses out of foam-core board for my 25mm Peninsular War games, and wrote an article for this website on how the construction was done.
Being a regular visitor to Paul Darnell's beautiful Touching History website, I recently snapped up his book on terrain-making, and used it as a guide to make some more buildings to add to my collection.
I was also impressed with a fantastic 40mm game put on last year by the Durham Chosen Men, and liked their half-timbered 'bodega' so much that I copied it to give a bit of variety to my otherwise plastered buildings.
Looking at all the resulting buildings, I realised that they looked a bit spartan without any landscape detail, such as streets, courtyards, gardens and so on. So my latest project has been to tie all my buildings together as a fully landscaped village.
I laid out the village as a crossroads with a small plaza in the centre. Each quadrant of the village is a separate small baseboard, so I can break it up into several smaller hamlets if necessary. I've made the buildings themselves detachable from their baseboards, so that I can still use them individually.
A view of the churchyard, with the plaza and bodega in the left background.
Note that I still need to put plastic tile sheeting onto the
roof of the bodega.
A ground-level view of one side of the village. The exposed stonework
and the windows are done with textures printed out on the computer, while
the shutters are corrugated card.
The cobblestones are also just print-outs of texture images from
the internet, jazzed up with a little sand and flock glued on in patches.
The village now needed some inhabitants. Just in time, Perry Miniatures released a very nice range of Carlist Wars civilians. Although this period is a few years after the Napoleonic Wars, the costumes would not have changed that much, and so they were perfect for my purposes.
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| A young woman with her baby, and an old senora meet at the village fountain.
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One guy is hard at work, while another loiters with for a smoke.
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| "Fish for sale! Buy my beautiful fish!"
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A well-dressed young hidalgo watches as a donkey, heavily laden with oranges, is led past.
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| A couple pray at the grave of a departed family member in the churchyard.
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Perhaps it was his ugly features that no-one could love, that led this man to become a monk. (Essex figure)
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| A jug of cool water always goes down well under the hot Iberian sun.
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Why is she running? Has she overslept for work, having tarried too long with her lover?
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| The churchyard will work perfectly well as a stand-alone terrain piece.
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