I'm up in the Lakes at my parents' place on my hols at the moment and taking a welcome break from painting miniatures - more of which when I get home and photograph all the new stuff I painted for BOYL 2014.
I must admit though it is a bit of a working holiday as there's loads of jobs to do and the place is a bit of a building site.
However, one of the more pleasurable jobs has been repairing and in this case rebuilding the dry stone walls around the place. This one had to be taken down to allow the builders to dig a drain down to the stream. I had to rebuild it as it forms part of the boundary that keeps the sheep in the neighbouring field.
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I believe the going tate is £28 per metre, per side.
I'll have to speed up a bit before I can consider a change of career though...
Very nice work mate. Careful though, you don't want the missus to think you are too handy at DIY, she'll have a list of jobs ready in a flash.
ReplyDeleteLuckily we don't have much in the way of dry stone walls back in York!
DeleteAll in all its pretty good, but I think the drybrushing is a little rough in some places. I've found that Devlan Mud has helped to smooth that out before. Also, I would have put a little more flock on the base? Maybe some of those little flowers?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good effort - looking forward to seeing the rest of it!
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Thanks mate and it's a valid point on the drybrushing as my size 1 brush gave up the ghost after doing a couple of inches!
DeleteWe've got loads of mud here - just not from Devlan and I reckon it'll be spring before I can encourage any flowers to stick to the base.
As for the rest of it - there's probably a good mile or maybe two of walls that need reinstating in the adjoining fields...
Nice looking wall. Also wanted to say thanks for the BOYL reports and some ideas for new model ranges to look out for. I need to look into more Hobgoblins and Half Orcs.
ReplyDeleteCheers Sean, nice to make something in 1:1 scale for a change and hopefully it'll slow down the Zombie hordes a while if they come!
DeleteSounds like you're maybe up for joining us in Chico's Outcast Greenskin/Hobgoblin Cathay game at BOYL 2015 if you can make it?
Hang on..."per metre, per side" - surely all walls have 2 sides?! So that's £56 per metre then? :-)
ReplyDeleteYep - peculiar way of pricing up a wall but I have it on good authority from the builders doing the work on my folks' place!
DeleteNot sure why as wallers often charge a day rate or just combine the price per metre, per side into one price.
I did hear the story of one waller who did quite well out of a job he was charging £60 per metre (both sides) and the client paid him £120 having assumed the price was just for one side!