Making a Realistic 19th Century Slum

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[@richardharrison4762]

UK resident here. One feature of these types of buildings that could really add flare and colour is that advertisements for items such as soap and ale would be painted directly onto the brickwork on the large windowless end sections. They are faded but some still endure to this day in fact there is one not far from where I live. I can imagine an advertisement for a fantastical item would cement the setting, like in Dishonoured with adverts for Whale Oil

[@johnboulton1109]

Great suggestions here from Richard….. Eric, you could have also included some bricked up windows, due to window tax lots of houses in the UK have bricked up windows. Victorian period properties had outdoor toilets and communal water hand pump and trough. Just a few ideas, but just to say your model is amazing!! 🤩

[@richardharrison4762]

@@johnboulton1109 I imagine you could get creative with a grim dark fantasy Victorian version of a mill, church and railway station.

[@janon2402]

See Bile Beans in York for an example :)

[@richardharrison4762]

@@janon2402 that’s a train ride away! I think I will do just that!

[@rupertjones5197]

BOVRIL, PLAYERS CIGARETTES,BISTO, GILLETTE, BLACK CAT TOBACCO, there’s 100s of old brands you could stick up for

[@Alex-cw3rz]

In Manchester was Angel Meadow one of the worst slums at the height of the industrial revolution. It had twice the density of the most dense place on the planet today and half of it was a Graveyard. Housing was normally a single room for an entire family or even mutiple families. The worst was the basement as open raw sewage would flow through them in heavy rain. I remember reading in the census that one person's address was "on the stairs" they slept on the staircase of a house. Life expectancy in England before the industrial revolution was 46, at the height of the industrial revolution it was 47 in Manchester it was 23. As I said half the slum was an unmaintained Graveyard, as the childrens families had no money they would use human skulls as footballs to play with. During economic recessions the top soil of the Graveyard rich in nutrients from the decomposing bodies would be sold to farmers and bones would be crushed up and sold to the Tannaries. There were a couple of tanneries in the area which is the smelliest industry as it involves human and animal waste product in the process, coupled with the gas works the place would stink. With all the textile factories and the railway the smog would have been a nesr constant and everything covered in smoke. Fredrick Engels visited factories owned by his father in the area and the horrors he saw there made him a communist. In the end the government placed flagstones across the entire Graveyard to stop the top soil from being taken. On the pennine moors are the Hungar Walls, these were built during times of famine such as during the Potatoe Blight, they would build long dry stone walls in exchange for food, often these walls had no purpose but were done so it felt like the food was earned. The slum was eventually demolished and now all that is there is expensive offices, flats and a park.

[@wellwell7950]

Wow I live near Manchester and I'd never heard of this thank you for sharing

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

Thanks for sharing. So many stories like this. It was unfathomably bad.

[@NovaCoronaSolarisBlast]

Jesus Christ, that is downright grimdark in description. it sounds like a peice of exposition inserted into a warhammer 40K novel to show how excessively bad the conditions are compared to human history

[@aidanhalf-troll3828]

Im an archaeologist and excavated slum housing in Angel Meadow, there's a few videos of our site tours on here

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@aidanhalf-troll3828 thank you I didn't know about that, I'll have a look, I presume that is Oxford archaeology?

[@joshmorales770]

...."we're all just one, big miniature family," made me chuckle a bit. Well said.

[@cybertronbob]

There’s something so wholesome and nostalgic about this build for me as, like many of your uk viewers, I have lived in plenty of these 2 up 2 down terraced houses. Complete with outdoor toilet! (Usually repurposed as a tool shed or bike storage, the working class aren’t still pooping outside) Easy to forget though that these crowded industrial slums existed well into the mid 20th century when those that weren’t destroyed in the blitz were demolished to make way for better quality housing post ww2. My grandparents lived in such slums and despite growing up poor (for the 90s) their tales of poverty would astound me as a child! Outdoor communal toilets, whole families to 1 or 2 rooms, bathing once a week in a tin bath in front of the fire, infant mortality, violence and trauma. My grandmother told me her mum kept chickens in her front room while some families would club together to buy a pig to keep in a communal area! Incredibly alien to me and hard to believe I’m separated from it by only 2 generations! Great work and thanks for reminding me of tales from my grandparents

[@heneagedundas]

I'm old enough to have still been using an outdoor loo when I was a child, complete with newspaper squares hanging off a nail to use as toilet paper. That smell of rain on limestone flagstones combined with bleach to keep it clean is still with me.

[@cybertronbob]

@@heneagedundas thankfully I missed out on that although my dad has faint memories. My most enduring memory of outdoor loos was when I last lived in Hull, my housemate and I managed to get through the very rusty latches to find that a ceramic tree stump had been placed over each hole where the wooden slats would have once been. Not at all what we expected to find

[@Tea_Leaves741]

my grandparents (not in a house like this) still had one right up until they died, though they did have all the usual modern stuff as well. Stayed in a remote lake district cottage last summer with one as well. I loved it, being able to poop in complete peace is highly underrated lmao

[@stephenater9687]

I am a 79 year old English born American who visited relatives as often as possible. In the 50’s and 60’s my Aunt Cynthia lived in Farmington, Hants. Had an outhouse. Mom would send her American toilet paper as a present.

[@geoffpriestley7310]

I lived in a house with an outside toilet my mother lived in a house with a plank and drum underneath which the council emptied once a week,. Happy days?

[@explodingcactuar]

This is a fantastic build but living in a victorian terraced street in the north of England, theres something faintly hilarious about your latest dystopian terrain build being *my house* 😂

[@paullittle835]

Mate, same

[@mac23rev21]

yup

[@njbolt90]

Similarly, lived in a Victorian terrace in Gillingham built to accomodate Chatham Dockyard workers, probably in the 1860s or 1870s.

[@heehoopeanut420]

😂 wow, that's hilarious. That's how I felt growing up in a poor, small, southern town in highschool English doing our "southern gothic" unite.... like ma'am nothing has changed here wym?😂😅 Our teacher was from up north so she ate it up but we were like "yeah this just sounds like my grandpa's life"

[@RED-my9hl]

Hey can u *not*

[@HolloVVpoint]

No idea why this video popped up in my algorithm, however I’m always shocked at how many incredibly talented people are out there. Awesome

[@paullittle835]

Like many others have said, Eric, you NAILED the atmosphere on this one. Many of us Brits still live in houses just like these!

[@AmazingStoriesJustForYou]

Is this the good old Britain before the Immigrants Tommy Robinson and his minions refer to?

[@fasalalbana4913]

I am a railroad modeler, I have to say your talent and work is absolutely impeccable , truly amazing and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your work.

[@DoubleG-l3b]

im from the north of england, there are still places that look this today, absolutely spot on mate!

[@Miscast]

These buildings are finished to absolute perfection 10/10

[@pierre-louispicot4598]

Can we get more battle reports in the style of "Eric's extremely documented traditional warhammer army with both original rare metal miniatures and conversions vs Trent's 100% multicolor resin-casted army with minis poking each other's butts with magic wands" please pleeaaaase ? 🥺

[@harbl99]

In the words of the classic _Scufflemallet 1880_ : "In the grim darkness of the recent past, there is only 'ooliganism."

[@Toombs71]

That final shot at the end of the video is gorgeous and it really tricks my eyes with that cloudy sky in the background

[@mattdutton2094]

I live in north west england and you absolute nailed the aesthetic here, on a rainy day (basically every day) the greyness you captured is very real. Living standards are better now fortunately🎉

[@marks6928]

As someone from England, I really appreciate this. These look fantastic.

[@Foxiepawstotti]

I was born in the late 50s and you aren't being excessive with the chimneys, there was a fireplace in every room because there was a family in every room and they cooked there as well as kept warm. This is great! I remember these tenements from my childhood, they were practically back to back and many were much taller than yours.

[@Lordrixson5489]

I'm from the old mill town of Preston in Lancashire. Charles Dickens apparently based his story Hard Times on Preston, after having visited. This model is an excellent adaptation which captures the essence of a Victorian slum. Brilliant work! 👌🏼

[@theastral1909]

Oh that’s interesting!

[@matthewc395]

Amazing Eric, absolutely beautiful and haunting in equal measure. I've worked the streets of London for nearly 2 decades and have always been fascinated by the old buildings. The sense of claustrophobia that can be found in the old alleyways in-between and behind the houses that still exist even without the squalor and cramped conditions from back then is truly palatable. I've not seen such a lovely recreation in our hobby before now. Brilliant as always!

[@jamessmith6234]

Look maybe I am being a total sap here but being from Preston UK (a city at the heart of the industrial revolution) a video from one of my favourite creators highlighting the horrors of that time for common the people whilst also being an awesome terrain build? Makes me a little emotional.

[@jaysunbodaysun3302]

Eric, you've outdone yourself this time. You are truly a tradesman. Your skills are becoming refined. I hope you are finding time to enjoy the games you speak of and enjoy your life as a father. Keep up the good work.

[@8765granteaton]

You had me at the rolling mold of brick…! Designer/scale modeler here. I’m 59 and this type of creating has technologically changed so much since I began. I started at age 7 with an HO scale train layout. At age 10 I was building architectural models of homes I designed. I applaud your talents and vision. You should be thrilled and very proud of your creation and talents. I’m sure you know about it, but the NYPL digital collection is a wonderful source for the period of history that is your inspiration.

[@debbralehrman5957]

It's good that you put the little shed in the back. Because there was no indoor plumbing. So for this whole building they needed to use and outside Loo. Yes everyone in this one building would all use just this one. Wow, no wonder Cholera, Typhoid fever, Dysentery, and Typhus were some of the most common Diseases

[@malazar]

The scale of the bricks/stones doesn't matter too much, because it perfectly evokes the stone used in buildings in the Cotswolds, where you'd also find cottages and terraced houses of a similar coloured stone, so the larger stones and the colour schemes 100% check out! Really cool build. :D

[@Beartree]

Posters done correctly! I agree thank you for pointing this out

[@pointynoodle]

That chalk spackle trick was a real stroke of genius!

[@MrEthicsgradient]

Wow! Your builds are always impressive, but this one really hits home for a couple of reasons. One is that my day job is as a town planner in the East Midlands region of England, cradle of the Industrial Revolution. I know you said your colour palette was inspired by London Stock Brick but, with the stone texture, you could drop these down almost anywhere in post industrial Derbyshire and they’d fit right in (albeit they’d probably be exclusive AirBnBs now). The other is that my Grandparents, and their Grandparents, grew up in exactly these sort of slums in the East End of London (and Portsmouth). We can trace the exact house on Booth’s poverty maps of London. If you’ve never heard of them they’re worth a google; the first maps to look at social status in Victorian London. My own family were in a street marked ‘Extreme Poverty’. But the street next to them was ‘Mostly Criminal’. Family history doesn’t include any references to fishmen I’m afraid- but I wouldn’t be surprised…

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

Thats very cool, thanks! I will have to look into these maps

[@AshleyMoorcroft]

I spent a few years in East Yorkshire, and most of the demolished houses were made from London Bricks.

[@mausolus8466]

I often wonder what lures some people to look upon Industrial Revolution and Victorian Era with idealism. For me, it reeked with depression, nihilism and utter diregard for lives, like abyss of Hell here on Earth. Good work in portraying it properly!

[@jamfjord]

18:00 omg! 😲 Accrington just appeared before my eyes

[@hmgirlpopuri5819]

Dollhouse stuff is awesome for terrain. I've been using dollhouse kitchen floor sheets for tiles in my ruins for years. Very cheap, easy to cut. These came out great, Eric!

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

good tip! I need to find a good dollhouse store to browse

[@hmgirlpopuri5819]

@@EricsHobbyWorkshop Yeah you definitely want a hobby store if you can find one. A lot of the stuff on Amazon has moved over to peel and stick floors with a pattern printed instead of moulded onto them.

[@johnsnow5968]

3d scanning combined with digital sculpting software like Blender has really given me what feel like fantasy powers. Old metal OOP minis from warhammer that id be sweating with a dremel worrying about ruining my expensive find? Head swap/weapon swap like its a kit from GWs golden age of the bitz box era, no problem. Re-scale a bit from 1 kit and mix it seamlessly into another kit. Its wonderful.

[@michaelcaterina4583]

Love the intro bit from Richie's Sherlock Holmes', underrated movies.

[@S.W.Best-Author]

After a stressful day in the office, this cheered me up no end. Thank you. :) I would even watch the paint bits in real-time instead of fast-forward.

[@Moccason]

A lovely build and I really appreciate the sensitivity and care that you approached this subject with, especially as you're not from the UK. Thank you! Brilliant work

[@janskeet1382]

I’ll second that. My mother grew up in something like that. It was built by the coal mine owners and yes, the compassion shown by the creator is appreciated.

[@irish3335]

Beautiful build, in the faction of Sci fi / military models myself but still great to see such a nice build from scratch, well done!

[@DarkCastleMiniatures]

Ah yes, the wargamers journey, Fantasy/Sci-fi, Alternate history, Napoleonics, then, soon.... Model railways :D

[@the_arcanum]

Daaaamn. You make me feel like Benjamin Button !

[@DarkCastleMiniatures]

@@the_arcanum you know it's true...

[@momon969]

I took my first steps into this hobby because my dad did model railways... I'm going to continue the cycle, aren't I?

[@username12120]

Man, if O scale railway stuff were cheaper I'd have a nice collection of buildings and train cars for a few themed tables by now. Would need to 3d print or scratch build everything to get what I want out of it.

[@caitlynwarrington8690]

FANTASTIC JOB SIR! Love the final look and really appreciate your attention to detail. thank you .

[@Crust_Monster]

Great build! I especially love the miniature-friendly shape of that back courtyard area. I'll definitely be stealing your method of making roof tiles.

[@wesleyrussell8386]

3:11 hell yeah!

[@l.v1473]

Hell yeah

[@Bethannny]

Hell yeah!

[@RuthlessMojo]

This is very cool. I’m in the process of doing a Jack the Ripper documentary. I wanted to do some miniature dioramas of the various crime scenes to include in the film footage. I’ve already downloaded some Victorian minis to 3D print but I will need to build the diorama cityscapes. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@Losantiville]

I love using all the tiny hobby techniques and materials. UV resin makes wonderful 1:160 n-scale windows. I get waves in the glass.

[@Hypnotic-tist]

Imagine if Eric and boylei hobby time did a collab set of vids together. It would be utterly incredible especially with BHTs new Wild West game. 🎉🎉 Eric this is an insanely amazing build, nice work sir! Beautiful! ❤

[@hyperbene7711]

Brilliant work as always! You always have handy tricks, like cutting off the chimneys and reattaching them after detailing them, making the end result stronger in the process. Awesome!

[@breenizm92]

Eric, I’ve been a huge fan of your videos for a long while, and now you’ve made something that reminds me so much of my hometown - I love it! I was hoping to build some 40k terrain inspired by this look at some point. People these days have their houses abrasively cleaned to remove that centuries old soot, but they lose so much personality imo. If anything, your version looks cleaner than what I grew up with. I’m sure it’d work well to try making some in a red brick style too!

[@Greentreeanduril]

😂 the finished buildings are pretty much a replica of my first house, mid terrace built in 1879. It had problems with damp, a little subsidence and I could hear the neighbours talking to each other through the walls but it was a foot on the property ladder. Awesome work though

[@4plainlimbs]

I love it! All your terrain is inspiring. Speaking of inspiring, where emperor titan

[@rorytulk8753]

This is amazing. You're really outdone yourself with this one Eric. Very realistic, could have easily been a railway layout or military diorama.

[@malcolmjcullen]

1:28 - That's in Glasgow, Scotland. The Bluevale and Whitevale Street towers in the background have now been demolished.

[@multiple_oranges]

this was so enjoyable to watch - I absolutely love how the buildings turned out, and those little fish gentlemen are amazing.

[@michaelmonfils2642]

I respect and enjoy the way you fuse reality and history with creativity and art. Many people say that history is boring or not relevant to their lives, but art and hobbies are a great way to teach history and tangibly give people a sense of place and time. Well done!

[@androcus]

You are getting so good and you do a great job of making this hobby approachable. Thank You!

[@90Gunni]

Absolutely fantastic results, it really looks suitably grimey and rul down. Gret to see your research as well as some teasers for Swill!

[@garethjohns8458]

It's wild that within days of each other, you & Goonhammer each show a different technique to get the mortar in between bricks looking white.

[@cptspikehead]

Damn that was quick and produced some top tier results! I definitely need me one of those texture rollers. Excellent work Eric!

[@MrFredstt]

Whole thing looks really good. Those Swill models were hilariously awesome

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

I live in the North East of England, you NAILED the sky in Britain

[@PatrickSamphire]

That's pretty good, and the buildings are very recognisable. There are still parts of the north of England that look very like that (although modernised, of course, the underlying buildings look the same).

[@jwmckinley9047]

I’ve been wanting to build an old penitentiary for some time now and the idea of scribing all of the bricks and stones was the primary reason I haven’t built it yet. Thanks, I see how you accomplished this and I am starting to research the project again!

[@josray2557]

Cool and informative build... I used to hate this era in life and the older I've gotten I now have a weird fascination with it. I think it kinda started with the RDJ sherlock Holmes movies.

[@euansmith3699]

That is such a great terrain set; super cool and atmospheric.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

I like this build SO much!

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

thanks homie

[@PuttingOnTheFoil]

Gorgeous results! The roof shingles are genius! You have opened up building styles I have avoided.

[@maulcrusader7106]

Wow 😮 great job dude! Those look amazing!

[@jrnerdmann2098]

It was very similar here in Berlin Germany. Poor people called „Trockenwohner“ (dry livers) moved in the newly erected buildings. Usually for a short time until the houses had dried. They often got sick with pneumonia and other related illnesses. The apartments were just as crowded as in the UK.

[@heehoopeanut420]

"and then often forgot about, are the dollhouse people"😭 as a Dollhouse mini person myself, thank you for making me fee seen😂😂 I instantly subbed when you said that, I've think the same thing about our hobby. So many niches and the popularity of each niche really surprised me when I got into the hobby! I thought dollhouse channels would be more popular, but nope, table top gaming seems to be all the rage! and I'm glad I found out about that area of miniatures, because even tho I don't build those types of minis, I LOVE the process! I have found so many good channels like yours thanks to the crafting and mini community.

[@Richie8a8y]

What a talented guy! Ingenious ways of adding depth to the textures and colors, creating realistic while imaginative settings.

[@peterfitzgerald53]

All you need ,is a dirty smog heavy back drop , absolutely amazing ,you have done our history a real credit ,thank you

[@MindTheGrease]

I’m currently developing a dystopian victorian video game, and I’m completely obsessed with the era and it’s dark tones. You did a great job! I’ll definitely be checking out Swill, too. So much inspiration!

[@ebc1f7]

That’s a great build and a great video. I especially love the final shots where u green screened on a grey sky above.

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Great build there Eric, you caught the flavor of the sums. Looking forward to see more of this build.

[@KnowsHughes]

As a true British gentleman i respect the accuracy and sympathy for the struggles victorians went through during that time. In Bradford, North England there was a factory man who built a factory and slums and other necessities for a small working town. The people who where working for the factory owner built the slums so the workers could live in them without having to travel to get to work as a result the production was very efficient. Keep up the great modeling

[@DOG-MEAT]

Here in England we still live in those houses today obviously been modernized abit but over all still same inside and out the big difference is alot of the gardens where made biger bit for most homes they are still small and we usually try the either knock down or remove asbestos from old house but they are still alot of people on the uk living with asbestos either in their sheds or homes.

[@karlarose536]

The thing about asbestos is, it's not really a problem as long as it doesn't become airborne, so it needs to be left along/sealed away. Removing it is for experts. Don't try to do it yourself, or do any remodel that involves disturbing it.

[@patrickhouston2610]

@@karlarose536 quite right, family bought new home of asbestos, walls ceiling, concrete tiles timber sidings in late 1950, no harm whatever from the sheets, even when extended few years later, asbestos cut as needed father in law died of other illness not anything to do with asbestos, in home country all trades know asbestos does and don't and allowed to remove or cut out up to a certain level.

[@KnowsHughes]

13:26 each specific area through out the UK have their signature brick for example the bricks in the video used for the model slums would be bricks from the west of England in places like bath and bristol as the bricks where made of sandstone. However the bricks in london where made from clay and thats what gives them their signature colour

[@victoryspath4116]

Amazing! The part at the end where you were showing the end product, I wouldn't have been able to tell that they were even models if I hadn't already watched the video. 😆 Just hyper realistic and amazing!

[@andresjoberg]

oooooooo, the roof tile with xps foam trick is sweeeet :D can probably be done with eva foam floor mats as well, or maybe cork, I’m gonna have to try that :) Thanks for a great video :)

[@Clyde__Frog]

Looks fantastic! Some Moss on the roofs and subtle vegetation here and there would really add another layer of realism I think.

[@Ammonitemare1711]

This was so good! Amazing to see swill content, I imagine the community will be referencing this video when building terrain for years!

[@Mukkanzie]

Awesome! Nobody does a terrain board like you Eric! I’m always excited to see how you’ll nail the next atmosphere and create a gaming space I instantly want to throw my minis into!

[@ryanfletcher4054]

Amazing work and looking very authentically British! I originally stumbled across your channel looking for ideas for painting up Necromunda terrain having never built anything myself. I got inspired and have now scratch built two bits of 40k/kill team terrain. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@battlebrothers_40k]

Amazing video. I'm going to incorporate some of these techniques into my 40k feudal world board. I love it, thanks as always Eric your channel is my favorite in all of hobby space!

[@zzzleepyhead9101]

Really wanting to get into building minatures and this put the biggest smile on my face. Living in the UK at the moment and you captured the same fascination I have with the architecture too. Amazing work

[@jacobhope6164]

Wow! Fantastic! Beautiful work sir!

[@Name-ps9fx]

Re: the building sliding away...I sew occasionally, and keeping the fabric stable can be a challenge, until my then-wife showed me to use tuna cans or similar as a weight. You might need something heavier, like a regular soup can or two.

[@hallowedtalon8106]

I always think of White Chapel when I hear "Victorian slums" because of Jack the Ripper. That model looks gorgeous! I'm so glad I clicked when it appeared in my feed.

[@ambientdiorama3133]

Wow, makes me want to build a whole city!

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

I admire your talent and i find your videos inspiring since im a model railroader its giving me some good ideas.

[@Shatteredzero1]

That's fantastic work, Eric. Great ideas and paint choices👏

[@JackSmith-qp9nh]

Your terrain building is constantly improving. It’s very exciting to see a setting come to life on the tabletop.

[@MisterMurphy]

I love that you show us you mistakes, I mean "happy accidents", and how you remedy them. Very thoughful, very demure! Thank you 👍

[@Mara999]

Nice! Those buildings remind me a lot of the ones at very old rural ironworks here in Finland. I see no problem with mixing together the different varieties of the miniature hobby, especially as railroads and dollhouses can be combined for making small film projects. Buildings meant for tabletop can be used just as well for backgrounds.

[@ScatteredTerrain]

This build turned out so well! That’s a very effective slum look

[@TheLeadWillWalkTheEarth-4d4m]

Fantastic build and wonderful to see some UK based hobby inspiration, great job!!

[@conorkelly947]

your work is always killer and your vids are always chill and informative. good shit brother

[@thejaxter6993]

Always a good day whenever you post! ❤

[@Jack.Strait]

For anyone interested in this era, I highly recommend The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

[@gasmonkey1000]

I was watching Fact Feast's video on Edinburgh slums whem ya uploaded this. Amazing work as ever man!

[@sandywatts2649]

You are amazingly patient and good!

[@watchthis7620]

Great modelling Eric. An optional extra could be the addition of guttering and drainpipes (London 19th Century slums had this on the roof and walls). Just to be picky too, there is a gap where your model meets the base (floor/street) - I presume it would be easy to fill this slight gap in? Keep up the good work. 👍👍👍

[@edwardcross5667]

Nailed it. Only thing to add would be copper gutters/drain pipes (unless that is a more New England thing). x

[@splatmanhooha4264]

Lovely model, the only thing I would say is more a comment for the future, 1. we don't have shingles over here, we have roof tiles, usually made from slate and 2. even the biggest chimneys are always called chimneys, never smokestacks. The only thing we might call smokestacks would be on a ship but even then we usually call them funnels!

[@wonderboy2402]

Dollhouse people. 😂 for some reason this rings like the Mole People. Haha. Love all hobbies.

[@iamgrays]

Really nice build. The edge trims to cover the foam core was simple and worked well. The overall paint job was very good too. Would work well for Mordhiem too.