Wednesday 5 February 2014

Another roman house

The good thing about Roman buildings..there´s so many different types based on a similar design! :-D  This one could be a pair of merchants residences..not quite rich enough for a town house/Villa but not so poor that they have to live in an insula.


A "clever" bit of construction was required to get the centre Support constructed
Front entrance
Rear.

24 comments:

  1. Lordy, you'll be living in Paulchester soon. Very good mode;;ing.

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    1. Paulchester...I like the Sound of that ! :-D

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    2. Yes it's a good name but don't sound good for a Roman Town !
      (better for a medieval one).
      Why not "Bodsa Villae" ? "Bodsiloninum" ? "Paulus Bodstoniae" etc...

      Again a great work !!

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  2. Great building once again! I'd pay for such a piece of art.

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  3. A wonderful villa. Extremely desirable for any Roman nobleman to make his home!!

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  4. These Roman's certainly know how to build decent houses!

    Valde bene! ;-)

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  5. Great work on that roof Paul! I can imagen that this wasn't a simple job! Fantastic building all the way!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  6. Excellent progress, but where will you store all these creations? I find myself with boxes of buildings for various periods and projects.

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  7. Wow! That's a bit special. how did you manage the roof tiles? What material did you use?

    Darrell.

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    1. Thanks Darrel. In the buildings for bods section there´s an "how to2 which Shows how the roofing tiles are made...it´s easy really when you know how :-D

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  8. Hi, Mr. Bods. I am enjoying your scratchbuilding project. I've had trouble for awhile browsing thru your blog. I'm back.

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    1. Hi Jay. A lot of Blogs are not showing up properly..add to that (for me personally) the work load has increased and Looks to increase more, I can´t get around the Blogs/Forums as much as i want to..come to that,..paint as much either :-(

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  9. Great work.

    I have enjoyed your series of Roman terrain building threads and look forward to more.

    Tony

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    1. Thanks Tony. At the Moment a new (bigger) Forum is under construction..with a basilika etc....the old one will become a 'macellum"

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  10. A very posh abode, I'd live there if it was a little bigger!!

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  11. Another superb Roman house!

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  12. Lovely stuff! I am so going to steal your roof tiles idea! I was already experimenting with ribbed carton but the way you use it is simply brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?

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  13. Love your work! I was just wondering what material do you use for your walls?

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    1. Thanks
      The walls are made using 1cm thick styrofoam, then they get a thin layer of PVA smeared onto the outsides and then they are dipped into playground sand.

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