The Elven Boat.

Here's the faering model modified as one of the Elven canoes from Lord of the Rings.
Pretty simple build.

"I'm going alone Sam!"
"Of course you are Mr. Frodo...and I'm coming with you.....!"


Here's the link:

Elf Boat

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown House Number 4.

Another viking/dark ages/Middle Earth house.
Rough log style with a plank roof.

Because you can never have enough houses.

Here's the link:


LakeTown House Number 4

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown: The Mead Hall

The Mead Hall.
A great place to drink, carouse, plan your adventures, fight monsters (and their mothers).


Construction is pretty much the same as LakeTown House #1....but its a lot bigger!

Here's the 3 page PDF:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7_Wdv8oYpJhaWlXb1ZNSVl0bG8

(I'm trying out Google Docs...when the page opens, click on File:Download....leave me a comment if it doesn't work)

Hope you like,

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LakeTown: The Great House.

The Great House.

Could be where the Mayor or Chief lives...or could be the council chambers...or it could be the seat of the local religion.

The model is based on a Viking Era Stave Church...or Stavkirke.

Its a fairly simple build...mostly just box shapes that glue together, but its a big file.
And there's lots of options for kitbashing.

Here's the link:

Lake Town Great House

Hope you like,

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LakeTown Dockside Warehouse.

The LakeTown dockside warehouse.
Shown here next to one of the other LakeTown houses  (it printed a little orange on my printer...I think I have to fix my printer settings, its more of a yellowish brown....)

This is a two storey structure, quite a bit bigger than the other LakeTown houses, with a handy loading hook.

Four page PDF, here's the link:

LakeTown DocksideWarehouse.  (this link is now dead....use the one below, it's better anyway...)

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

EDIT!!!!
I'm not really happy with the colour of the first one, so I played with the colours a bit...toned down the saturation of the the bright orange so it prints a little more brownish.
 Here's the link to the new one:

 Better Coloured Dockside Warehouse

(its on Google Docs...open the File flydown and click on Download).
Forget the first one...this one looks much better.
GM.

LakeTown House Number Three.

The third LakeTown House.

With a wood shingled roof and a rougher barn-like exterior.

Here's the PDF:

LakeTown House 3

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown Ladder.

Just a little extra for the LakeTown set.

If you cut out the little spaces under the rungs like a downward facing flap, you might be able to balance a figure in them...like a real ladder.

Here it is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhUHF5bFRWZHpRcGs/view?usp=sharing


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LakeTown House Number 2.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhOXZVY24zcUtqWjA/view?usp=sharing

The second house of the laketown set.
With a timber plank roof.

Could fit into many historical time periods as well.

A pretty simple build (2 page pdf).

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhOXZVY24zcUtqWjA/view?usp=sharing

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

Viking Wagon: The Oseberg Cart.

Here's a viking wagon, loosely based on the cart found with the burial goods of the Oseberg Ship.
Perfect for hauling hay, pillaged goods, slaves or pickled herring.  Whatever ya got....

You're on your own for rounding up a few horses or oxen though.

Here's the model (one page jpg):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhMFFnQllvSEkwQ2s/view?usp=sharing

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown House Number 1.

The first house for LakeTown.
Also good for use as a Viking or Dark ages home.

The curved roof is a little tricky, just remember to glue it to the beam first.

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhdXVubHRDekJseXc/view?usp=sharing

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

More LakeTown Dock Bits: Ramp and Bridge.

So here's a shot of some of the rough prototype pieces of Laketown put together in a small layout.
The final parts are a faded, weathered grey like the bridge.

This set contains the bridge and the ramp, to pretty much complete the LakeTown Docks set.

Here's the link:

LakeTown Bridge and Ramp

The other parts are at these two previous posts:

LakeTown High and Low Dock.

LakeTown High Dock Spacer.

So with all these bits, a truly large scale LakeTown Pier tabletop layout could be made.
(If you make one, please send me the photos!)

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown: more dock bits: the "spacers"

This piece is a spacer.
Not very glamorous I know, but important in the big picture.

In order to present a continous post/cross-beam/post/cross-beam/post face in the LakeTown model, the spacer goes between the high dock sections.
In the pic above you can see how this works....except for the one floating there all by itself (just to show what you're getting).

They've already been textured (a greyish weathered wood look) but I don't have enough made for a decent picture so you'll have to imaging it from the graphic above...I'll get one up later.

I've also included a few squares of the planking texture in this one, so you can use it for the interior bits of your model (mount it on heavy cardboard or foamcore...that way you don't have to build endless high dock bits....).

So download it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhMGlPWnI1d1BfMUE/view?usp=sharing


And if you actually build one, let me know....maybe send me the pics....

Hoope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

LakeTown: the dock platforms.

The first part of my LakeTown project.  Based on Tolkien's Esgaroth from The Hobbit.
Read about the town here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esgaroth

The dock platforms.  Pretty straightforward. One high, one low (not pictured here, but its in the PDF).

There's other bits to come: ramps, bridges, buildings...but you've got to put them someplace so we'll build the platforms first.

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhVjNXSXdyZUs3LVk/view?usp=sharing

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

The Faering.

From Wikipedia:

"A faering is an open boat with two pairs of oars commonly found in most boat-building traditions of Western and Northern Scandinavia."

These boats date back to the Viking Era, and several examples were excavated with the Gokstad ship.

These may have been what Tolkien had in mind when describing the boats of Lake-Town.
I have a master plan to design a whole Lake-Town set, with docks and boats and buildings, but you'll have to wait for that one...maybe for a long time....

These boats were also the inspiration for the Elven canoes from Peter Jackson's LOTR.
Maybe I'll texture a version to match.  So many ideas...so little time.....

So, here's a small faering boat model, suitable for Viking, Dark Ages, or Fantasy gaming.

Or just to have floating around your docks.

Its a waterline model, scaled for 25-30 mm figures with room for a few figures to stand inside.

There's three different coloured versions, the third one is slightly longer.

Each one prints on a single 8.5x11 page at full scale.

With instructions.

Download the jpg's here...

Faering one (dark brown).

Faering two (medium brown).

Faering three (lighter brown, longer).

Hope you like,

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