Building a Viking / Saxon Grainstore for 28mm Dark Ages Wargaming

This tutorial is how to make a Scandinavian grainstore- perfect for Vikings or Saxons!

The methods used on this build are very similar to previous builds so check them out for a more detailed explanation of certain techniques.

Basing materials supplied by Famous Gaming, check them out!

Part 1: Materials- Some foamboard, some plastic chopsticks, a craft knife, hot glue gun, ruler and pencil. A sheet of foamboard about A4 size should suffice, I used scraps but you'd have leftovers if you bought an A4 sheet from a shop.

The foamboard was cut to give a bevelled base and the 4 walls of the building

2 triangles were cut to be the triangular gable ends

This was all glued together and a floor was added- the floor on this build is 100% necessary!

I then cut a door from the odd shape left from cutting the two triangles and glued this on. Then I built a frame around the door and a ledge, using the rectangular chopstick ends. I also started to glue the upright chopsticks in place. These were cut into to give a rougher hewn appearance, see my older posts for more on this :)

This continued all the way around the building.

I then paired up 10 of the rectangular ends and glued them to the base. These provide the stilts that the building will stand on.

Tadah! I didnt glue the building on top so it is able to be moved for storage etc. Two beams were added to the roof for extra support and to look fancy. Coming along nicely.

The roof was made from strips of scouring pad cut and overlaid. Rough them up for a more authentic thatch look.

Splitting the pads will make the thatch much more realistic and also make it go much further. This isn't the building in the tutorial but around now was when my camera decided to hate life so there's a bit of a  jump.

After this point more steps were added using the rectangular ends and a chopstick beam frame was added under the building to stop it sliding when placed on the stilts.  Then it got undercoated in black spray paint 

The whole thing got painted in burnt umber brown acrylic paint- few coats for the chopsticks and light coats for the roof.

The roof then got further coats of country maple acrylic to add some highlights.

It then got a pretty thick brushing of golden brown acrylic- but not completely covering the previous 2 brown layers.

To finish it off the roof got a final highlight of tan acrylic paint, its a sandy colour that works well with the golden brown to create a thatched look.

The base was painted in a similar way- sprayed black, painted with burnt umber, dry brushed with country maple and tan.

As the pic above shows it works out nicely for scale and is a pretty unusual model- not many people seem to make grainstores for their 28mm. All in all very happy with this build :)

Any suggestions, questions or comments ask away!