First June Preview

For our first June preview we have a bunch of stuff in motion. Lets jump in!

Cheese making stuff! We have a couple of cheese presses and a couple other things that go with that. cheese has to age at least 3 months I guess, so we have a shelf for it. We have a bucket with curded milk and empty, that is ready for press. Also Used and unused presses versions. We have a bucket with milk and stir spoons and that bucket again covered. The milk has to be stirred and heated to around 100 degrees and then covered for several hours to keep bugs out while the milk curds up. I figured monks made cheese and wine so it'd be good with the library stuff coming. Wine presses are similar but larger, I'll take a run at that.

Cesspit! I have a WIP cesspit in the works above. I even made a shit brush with a bunch of grades of human excrement. I'll have a look at a public shit house with collection barrels and some fermenting piss barrels as well. I guess they would send out the crap to the farmers and the piss would be aged 6 weeks before it was used to tan hides or wash cloths. Evidently the wine didn't taste much better than the piss. Interestingly, bottled wine didn't actually exist in the historical time frame that is typically mimicked in fantasy settings. Kind of a side note there related to the above part.

Horse Grain Wheel. Finished up the horse rigging for the grain wheel I started last month. There is a hand grinder in there to for your kitchens

Bucket Wheels. We are augmenting a few water wheels for buckets. These will be both man/animal powered and water powered. They are for lifting water out of rivers to raised aqueducts. They are also used to drain water from mines.  

Abandoned Notice Board We have an abandoned Notice board, I've also worked up a regular one with a thatch roof since I have not seen one around. I'm tempted to to do a mimic but we will see.

Heavy Wheel Barrels, because we could use some more.

Horse Drawn, wooden track,  Mining Carts. We have some mining carts on wood tracks. Commonly fantasy mines are depicted with metal tracks which is WAY off from our historical timeline (I don't consider it wrong, but I know some folks prefer a tighter ties to RL). We have a couple styles, one is narrow with a pin in the front of the cart that runs between the timbers. The horse prevents breaking its leg because the tracks are close enough that the hoof does not fit in. The second style works with a larger cart and would also be good for outdoor rock quarry or foresting scenes as well. You see the Horse prevents braking its leg by the tracks being spread enough that the horse fits completely between them. I do not intend to finish the wider track for June, that one will likely be out in July. There is not a ton of documentation on wooden tracks so I had to do the best I could. The oldest historical version I found looks like a damn nightmare to use, I have to believe people in greece or china or even the middle ages figured out something a little better than the image below.