The European Village is one of the delightful Hudson & Allen models available from Vatican Enterprises. It is piece measuring in at 16.5" by 11.0" by 6.0" high. But that’s fine by von Peter himself as it will be used to represent significant villages or towns on the table top.

The village is constituted of several buildings with a cobbled street running its length in a dogleg shape. There are many small details strewn about the model in ‘the more you look the more you see’ manner.

Paint effects applied by Craig Watterson, von Peter’s official painter of things architectural, and he’s done a great job with it. All the details on the model may be great to look at but they all needed painting. And with the model being of one piece there were problems with constrained access to several areas caused by the buildings across the street. So not always an easy job. And a lot of work. Thanks Craig. In the interest of full disclosure von Peter himself applied the tufts ... masterfully!

While it is true that the village will get many transitory names in the future as various scenarios annoint it for the duration of a game it is considered that a more permanent name is required. So by general acclamation we are pleased to present the village of vonPetersdorf. Catchy eh!  😊

von Peter himself is ‘thrilled to bits’ with his village and foresees much fighting in its future.

Above: the splendour of a fully developed vonPetersdorf. Just the built up area for fighting over in Saxony, 1813.

Above: North, south, east and west views of the village. Which is which is up to you. Such a wonderfully adaptable village!

The last image also shows some of the internals of the village.

So far so good. We have a vonPetersdorf - a great piece of real estate for the wee chaps to fight over. But what say we need a slightly larger village, or a matching smaller built up area?  Hudson & Allen Studio’s Late Medieval Village Set, building #3 was born for such requirements. The model consists of two adjoining buildings and can either represent a little stand alone hamlet or another block of an expanded vonPetersdorf when placed adjacent to vonPetersdorf. As can be seen the new buildings fit in perfectly with those of vonPetersdorf though they perhaps do not have the same level of extra little details of the village.

Once again Craig Watterson's talents worked wonders applying the pigments.

Above: the four sides of the Late Medieval Village Set, building #3 in two images