A Home for the Thracians

Although a BUA is not a compulsory terrain feature for the Thracians I still went ahead and constructed one. The details of construction are as follows:

1. The base is an irregularly cut piece of Masonite. Three layers of 10mm polystyrene have been glued to the Masonite to represent the plateau that the village sits on.

2. A pathway from ground level to cliff top was carved out using a knife and my fingers. Once the glued dried I made up a mix of plaster, sawdust, PVA, brown poster paint and water, and coated the cliff face with it. By doing this I was able to achieve a rocky finish. Once this mixture had dried I drybrushed it with a buff colour and then applied flock randomly.

3. The palisades were constructed from bamboo skewers (as the posts) and scribed styrene. The gates are also the same scribed styrene, turned 90⁰. The gates posts and lintel are made from balsa. The palisades and gates were base coated with Citadel's Vomit Brown, washed with Chestnut Ink and then drybrushed with Bleached Bone.

4. The huts use as a core tomato paste tubs. These were then covered with paddle pop sticks(popsicle sticks for Americans) to represent slab hut construction. The hut's roofing was my first attempt at scratch building thatch. I rolled out some air drying clay and placed it on a cone that I had already glued to the hut. Then I went mad with an old scalple blade to represent the thatching. After the clay had dried overnight I spray undercoated the huts with flat black. For the walls I then drybrushed starting with dark brown and going right through to a desert yellow. For the thatching I bases coated with yellow, washed with Citadel's Brown Ink and then drybrushed with Bleached Bone.

Here are a few more images of the hill top village.