The Tales of Shedwood Forest - the beginning

So with Pirates almost complete I have now turned my attention to a new genre.

The Tales of Sherwood Forest.

With ample trees and rivers already built I could turn my attention to the focal point of this game. The City and Castle of Nottingham.

As befits a walled medieval city I needed sufficient walls and gates. So a quick scour on various boards I settled on the Games Workshop plastic fortress as my starting point. Some bids later on ebay secured two of these beauties.

What you can see in the photo are the walls and towers all assembled with one layout for the city. At present they only have the black acrylic primer so still need to be finished off with grey drybrushing.

Inside the city I needed buildings. Fortunately the Conflix buildings are perfect BUT I needed more. Again reviews across the website revealed that some folks were raving about the 28mm buildings from PMC.

A few of these were purchased (there goes my budget for the year) and I am getting there. I just need to source some more Wilkinson’s vinyl tiles to fill in the towns roads and courtyards. These will be ‘dirtied up’ as they look just a little bit too clean.

In addition to all these buildings I decided that my walled monastery would come out to play but it was in dire need of a repaint. The photo here shows the monastery with its first coat of black.

Finally I will need Nottingham castle to grace the town. This has been bought but will be shown in a later post....