AoM: House Build 3: Wainwright

[Ayrlego]

Previously...

After much convincing, Ygnvi has persuaded Irissa that they would be better combining efforts in the search for their kin. Irissa journeys back into Ambarvale with Yngvi and Erik to Yngvi's parents house, where the pair are currently staying. Yngvi's father Arne is the town's master wainwright, although nowadays his apprentices do most of the work under his watchful supervision. Yngvi and Irissa finalise the supplies required for the journey to the nearest major port, Thorshaven. From here they plan to seek passage to Kaliphlin via ship.

The first leg of the journey to Thorshaven is not without challenges. With winter rapidly approaching (the first snows have began in the mountains above the town), conditions will not be pleasant. Yngvi's parents beg him to leave Erik in their care. Which makes perfect sense... however; having being seperated for so long, Yngvi is loath to leave Erik again and Erik does not want to be separated from his father. It is a difficult decision, but in the end Ygnvi decides he will take Erik... or as he puts it to Irissa... "we will live and die together"

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So the bottom stone section of this build started of as Irissa's cyclops hut before I decided to go with a round design. Then when I re-approached this WIP, it just kind of kept expanding into the wainwright's house you see here. This is my first build in a while that is one sided. The rear of this build has no detail and is plain bricks (not so with the watermill...) I guess I just got tired (read: lazy ) of putting all that effort into parts of the build that I wasn't photographing! In retrospect I feel I probably should have added a tree as when I did a colonial version for BoBS I feel the couple of palm trees in that version added quite a lot. Anyway, I had this week off work after some minor surgery, hence the massive output... next week will be back to work and back to normal pace!

 

[W Navarre]

Well I enjoyed this spree of building!  This is so sweet mate, Love the colors with the roofs, the walls, and the black highlights, and this style of building is just so great, amazing job! I really like the terrain too! 

[Kai NRG]

It's pretty hard to pick a favorite between this and your other version, I like the lighter roof colors here and the extra minifigure activity.  I left most of my comments on the build itself on the other version; but I am wondering why the string coming out from over the window is attached to the wall (?) instead of dangling loose?  Great hanging sign though!

[Grover]

What a wonderful build!  I am loving these A-frame roofs and the color scheme for the shingles.  I really like the details that go in, too--the winch and pulley over the top of the door, the broken down cart... well done.  I like the idea of a wainwright, too--there has to be a lot of them in medieval society and yet it's not done all that often.  The texture you get out of the dark grey on the walls is great, too--not too overdone and yet you have a varied texture of the wall.  Do you have any pics of the other side of the roof?  I'm curious how you put the chimney on.  Great job!

[adde51]

Another stunner, great job. I like the DBG for the lower section instead of LBG, works very well. And overall the attention to detail is great.

[en_zoo]

I like this version better, if nothing, because of the colours on the roof ^^ I agree that a tree might have added something and it's a pityt that the wainwright's face got hidden behind that spear, but they're both minor concerns. On the contrary, your Tudor is really neat and the wall texture is nice. I also like how you've used dark bley instead of the light one as well as those inverted slopes in the wall to get to the 2nd story of the building - I've always thought they should be wooden, but you've made me change my mind

[Ayrlego]

On 11/23/2018 at 12:31 PM, W Navarre said:

Well I enjoyed this spree of building!  This is so sweet mate, Love the colors with the roofs, the walls, and the black highlights, and this style of building is just so great, amazing job! I really like the terrain too! 

Thanks Navarre!

On 11/23/2018 at 2:17 PM, Kai NRG said:

It's pretty hard to pick a favorite between this and your other version, I like the lighter roof colors here and the extra minifigure activity.  I left most of my comments on the build itself on the other version; but I am wondering why the string coming out from over the window is attached to the wall (?) instead of dangling loose?  Great hanging sign though!

Thanks Kai! I was hoping no one picked me up on the string! I did have it dangling down (because like you said, it makes more sense right?) but it didn't look right so I just attached it to the wall until I could come up with a better solution... and there it stayed!

On 11/23/2018 at 4:11 PM, Grover said:

What a wonderful build!  I am loving these A-frame roofs and the color scheme for the shingles.  I really like the details that go in, too--the winch and pulley over the top of the door, the broken down cart... well done.  I like the idea of a wainwright, too--there has to be a lot of them in medieval society and yet it's not done all that often.  The texture you get out of the dark grey on the walls is great, too--not too overdone and yet you have a varied texture of the wall.  Do you have any pics of the other side of the roof?  I'm curious how you put the chimney on.  Great job!

Thank you Grover. Unfortunately no pics of the other side. The chimney is simply attached directly to the roof plate using a hinge brick. As the back was not built for display, the small gap this creates wasn't an issue. If I was going to build the chimney on a display side, I'd probably make a 2x2 hole in the roof and simply have it poking through... well that's the plan anyway!

On 11/23/2018 at 11:11 PM, adde51 said:

Another stunner, great job. I like the DBG for the lower section instead of LBG, works very well. And overall the attention to detail is great.

Thanks adde. I do think the DBG does look better for this style as well... now I just need more as this was the extent of the wall I could build in this textured style with the bricks I currently have available!

On 11/24/2018 at 12:50 AM, en_zoo said:

I like this version better, if nothing, because of the colours on the roof ^^ I agree that a tree might have added something and it's a pityt that the wainwright's face got hidden behind that spear, but they're both minor concerns. On the contrary, your Tudor is really neat and the wall texture is nice. I also like how you've used dark bley instead of the light one as well as those inverted slopes in the wall to get to the 2nd story of the building - I've always thought they should be wooden, but you've made me change my mind

Thank you en-zoo. I did consider wooden supports which I've used in the past, but after seeing some examples from other builders (mainly Soccerkid/Isaac) I decided to experiment with stone!

[neonic]

On 11/23/2018 at 2:31 AM, W Navarre said:

Well I enjoyed this spree of building!  This is so sweet mate, Love the colors with the roofs, the walls, and the black highlights, and this style of building is just so great, amazing job! I really like the terrain too! 

Like he said, great build with all those details and colorscheme. Also nice detail, those 'oldschool' knights on the right  I've got some of those too. They are realy old haha

[Basiliscus]

One of your best works David! Love the stone work on the house and that roof, they go great together. Lovely fig placement, really like the guys fixing the cart, they are perfect.

Amazing work!

[Kai NRG]

4 hours ago, Ayrlego said:

Thanks Kai! I was hoping no one picked me up on the string! I did have it dangling down (because like you said, it makes more sense right?) but it didn't look right so I just attached it to the wall until I could come up with a better solution... and there it stayed!

  It almost looks like it's attached to the door, I was thinking it might be some novel form of a door latch. 

[LegoModularFan]

Looks great, I personally love this version more as the roof looks more relaxing and reminds me of a marble  which I really like! The rockwork is quite interesting (in a good way), it really fits with the rest of the build. The timbered looks amazing, I really like the textured walls. I’m generally not a big fan of tiles roofs but it looks just right here! Keep the great work up!  

[Henjin_Quilones]

Another top-notch build from you! I enjoy your colors here, and the contrast in textures between the different parts of the build is pleasing to the eye. The wattle and daub portion is nice - and I'm happy it isn't white - with some good-looking trim around it. As for the string attached to the wall, noted by Kai, perhaps you could have had it lifting up some wood for a workshop above, or something, allowing it to hang down without looking awkward; the stiffness of LEGO strings can be a pain, since it would likely not fall believably on its own. I also think some sort of solution could be found for hiding or filling the gap at the top of the gables, where the very nice trimwork comes to an end abruptly with a hole. Those, however, are minor things that I had to look hard for to comment on, and otherwise it is a very nice build, and quite pretty. 

[The Stad]

Great job, your half-timbered technique is very appealing and realistic in appearance. The overall color palette looks great, and you've got a great balance of textures here.  I'm really impressed with how you've adapted this to two different settings and made it fit into them so well!

[soccerkid6]

Stunning building. The half timber style is accomplished beautifully, and the small dormer addition is tremendous Very nice balance of texture for the streets with mainly dark tan tiles, mixed in with regular plates and bley 1x1 round tiles.
And the wainwright details included, of which the crane is my favorite, finish off the build well

[Rogue Angel]

This is a fantastic building that is very well executed. Really enjoy the timber technique, and the tile coloring works very well.  One of many very good builds from you over recent months!