(Near) -final results on the scratchbuilt half-timbered house

I had just finished painting 15 Foundry Vikings and thought I'd throw in the finished house as a background. You may also recognize the Games Workshop trees with their funky flat dishes of leaves. I'm not real happy with the leaf effect, they look OK when viewed from above (a typical gaming table view) but look really weird when viewed from the side or even slightly below.

And of course, in each shot is the (nearly) completed half-timbered house, now with basing around the edges and a few bits of vine climbing the walls here and there. Given its larger size, I think this house will be the village inn… and here’s some story around that, linked to a recent RPG adventure.

Here's Olaf, Sven and Lars, just coming out after a few too many steins of beer.

Later, a group of archers, with the Jarl standing by, come through the woods to chase off some pesky Saxons who thought they'd drain a keg or two. How wrong they were!

After the Saxons get sent packing, the archers' captain, Bjorn, bargains with Sigmund, the innkeeper, for lower prices on the next keg.

 Bjorn, Sven and Harald look on with dismay as one of the kegs they've paid for bursts open as it's being loaded onto their wagon.

Now all they need is a nice, pre-owned longship to take them raiding. But that'll be another project.