Realty Check

 A busy weekend on the domestic front leaves little time for hobby input, so here's an update of what has happened.

Firstly, I finally got round to tiling the roof of the 10mm size cottage from Warbases that was discussed here. I was going for that Olde World, "distressed" style...

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Secondly, two Map Moves (and some admin.) have been made in the on going Illyrian Invasion of Messaline.

Turn 6 saw the very reduced armies of Illyria move back over their border, and a newly mobilized Messaline Army 4 muster at their Capital.

 Turn 7 witnessed the appearance of a fresh Army for Illyria, and the gradual recovery of both sides. Meanwhile the two fleets get ever closer to the South of the peninsula...

Thanks for visiting, and now back to the business at hand...

Realty

 A quick post to share a couple of recent purchases from Warbases. (Just to clarify, I don't work for them, I'm just a satisfied customer!). I have bought bases from them for quite a few years now, and last visit I thought I'd try some of their other items.

On seeing them, I took an immediate fancy to the MDF 10mm size buildings. These come in kit form as illustrated in the following picture. I purchased a couple of the smaller ones to try as I'm not gifted when it comes to model making. 

The main parts are laser cut MDF; the "half-timbering" is laser cut card, and the roof is also a piece of scored card. How simply, and neatly, the parts fit together is demonstrated by the fact that I made (including painting) one of them this morning.

The house by the lake (with 10mm Norman)

This is the "Cavendish Cottage" with Stone Foundation option. I simply painted the walls off white and coloured the half-timbering with a trusty Sharpie (other fibre tipped pens are available). The roof is a bit plain so I think I'm going to tile it.

The Lake in the above picture was also from Warbases (see here). The set of MDF Ponds or Lakes, depending on the size of your figures, is illustrated below.

As they arrive (scale in cm)

Ready for play (scale in inches)

Every time I look at the Warbases site they seem to have added new bits and pieces that I probably "must" have, so there may be similar posts in the future!