Sue and I are members of English Heritage, and recently we received the latest issue of the member’s magazine. It contained a children’s supplement entitled THE KIDS RULE! GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ENGLAND, ...
... and I happened to notice that there was a link to a section on English Heritage’s website where ...
Scroll down this page to find the links to the free model buildings.
... it was possible to download paper templates to build the following buildings:
- A Bronze Age Roundhouse
- A Roman Prefect’s house
- A Saxon Thegn’s house
- The Great Tower of Dover Castle
- The south tower of Stokesay Castle
- The gatehouse of Cleeve Abbey
- A monk’s cell
- St Mawes Castle
- Boscobel House
- Apsley House
- Stott Park Bobbin Mill
Click on whichever of the buildings you want to construct, and it will take you to the appropriate page ...
... where you will find information about the building. If you scroll down this page ...
... it will take you to the link to the PDF templates for that building and instructions on how to put the model together.
An example of the first page of the PDF template for Stott Park Bobbin Mill.
I’m not sure what scale they are, but I don’t think that it would be too difficult to scale them up or down.
Bob,
ReplyDeleteThe Paper Building suplament is very good- amazing what you can find on the net- wouldn't be to hard to re-scale these model buildings especially for 15mm I'd imagine. Thanks for posting. Cheers. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteIt was sheer chance that I found them, but now I’ve bookmarked the page for future reference as I can see myself downloading several of them. Rescaling them shouldn’t be too difficult and neither would chopping them about to make ‘new’ buildings using a decent drawing package.
All the best,
Bob
Thanks for posting Bob, some interesting stuff. I particularly like the ECW game. The map has great potential for a stylised campaign map.
ReplyDeleteCheers steve
Stephen Smith,
DeleteThere are lots of free resources on the website that I can see myself using, including some of the game ideas.
All the best,
Bob
Stephen, I agree about the ECW map. You could make forces from 6mm figures or reduce those in Peter Dennis's Paperboys ECW book from Helion to make much more attractive counters than those provided with the game.
DeleteArthur1815 (Arthur),
DeleteThat sounds like an excellent idea!
All the best,
Bob
What a wonderful site and so many fun looking activities! My son is 11 and thinks he's tool cool for that kind of thing. I, however, was giddy with excitement and downloaded a number of buildings and games to make. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteJohn Y,
DeleteI’m very pleased that you’ve found the link useful … and perhaps your son will one day!
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob
ReplyDeleteIn support of paper houses I would like to confirm my experience. In 1974 I was in Germany, where I bought a large number of thick paper (not card) houses, mostly of course typical German in style. I glued them together and they were soon improving the look of my wargames table. They travelled around Europe with me, and finally here to Spain. They are still on the shelves in my games room, and in near perfect condition. They don't get on the table much, because they are more suitable to 15/18mm. However over the years they have provided large towns/cities when I did play with my AB figures.
Thistlebarrow,
DeleteIt sounds as if your model houses were much more robust than I would have expected. In the past, I’ve built card houses designed to go with model railways, but they never seemed to ‘survive’ whenever I moved home. Perhaps I might give these a go …
All the best,
Bob
There's a lot of fun stuff on that website, I'll have to dig around some more. The Tudor house reminds me of some models featured in an issue of White Dwarf back in the 80s when they were really pushing Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. The Roman prefect's home looks like a model they have in the Pompeii display at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. I'm going to pick a couple designs and assemble them on a rainy day.
ReplyDeleteMr. Pavone,
DeleteI think that there are a lot of useful resources on the website in addition to the buildings. I'd love to see some photos of the completed buildings if it is possible.
All the best,
Bob
I'm a member too. How did I miss that?
ReplyDeleteTrebian,
DeleteI only spotted the link because I read the kids magazine that came with the latest magazine for members … and I only did that because I couldn’t find the free parking stickers that were included in the bundle of stuff in the envelope.
All the best,
Bob
Thanks for posting this! I shall have a look at the St Mawes Castle model.
ReplyDeleteNundanket,
DeleteIt looks like it might be a complex model to make but it will have lots of uses as that style of castle was built in several other locations. (I am particularly thinking of Deal Castle, which I visited not very long ago.)
All the best,
Bob