As some of you may know Allan Downes suggested a Tudor building challange,on this thread.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85293-how-about-a-little-tudor-competition/

Being in exam season I was keen for the opportunity for extra procrastination... so this is the first of a number of entries which will detail my progress.

It is a very simple layout sort of beer mat sized with a 2 up 1 down and a small walled back garden. The house is broadly based on a number of houses in Dunchurch (near Rugby)

Principally the "Guy Fawkes House" and a number of charmingly wonky examples just around the corner.

The garden is totally unplanned and I shall just play about with bits of cereal packet until I work it out.

SO...

It started by sketching a few ideas on the back of an envelope which were then transferred to a Cornflake packet, after i bit of hacking about the house started to emerge

The shape of upstairs happened by accident and some roughly cut strips of black painted card filled in for timbers.

The side wall was 20th century addition, so I painted up some Southeastern Finecast pain-bond embossed plasticard which went well until I coated it in a varnish which it turns out dissolves Humbrol acrylics...

I as the house is already nothing like the Guy Fawkes House I decided to dispense with accuracy even further and have leaded windows, After much experimenting I found that scribing the sheet and then giving it a wash of black paint which was promptly rubbed off gave a passable effect.

and then even better I found my idea of filling in the gaps between timbers with white painted card strips also worked rather well, which brings us to: