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Saxon Hall in 28mm

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Saxon Hall... You can`t create a Saxon village without the local Thegn`s Hall. Now, I have to admit that in the construction it got away from me a bit. On reflection, it`s a bit big. However, let´s just assume that the local Lord is like modern Mayors and  wanted something to reflect his own sense of importance. So, the size of it will stand until I build another of more moderate dimensions....  Construction. Once again, I followed my tried and trusted construction method of building a house-shaped box. As usual. mounting card was used and was glued together using my glue guns. I then thought about the kind of construction I wanted. Initially it was going to be stone but I´m not that happy with Saxon stonework (at least at the moment). So, once again, a mixture of overlapping boards and plasterwork. In this case I used very thin balsa wood. Firstly, I `seperated`the side walls using thin dowel rod. Following this I cut out planks and laid them (from the bottom up) using PVA woodglue to