The palette

Grey stone, white terracotta between spruce timbers, a dark cobbled deepslate roof, red bricks for the forge. The dark roof and the red forge are what say 'blacksmith': heavy, smoky, hot.

Techniques

• Open workshop
• Jettied upper floor
• Timber frame
• A glowing forge
• Tools and props

The steps

1. Workshop floor
2. Stone walls
3. Heavy posts
4. Lintel and braces
5. Furnaces and smithing table
6. Anvil and grindstone
7. Rack of spears
8. Coal and iron
9. Ladder and chains
10. Corbels
11. Floor beams
12. Upper floor
13. Timber posts
14. Front timber wall
15. Side and back timber walls
16. Shutters and flower boxes
17. The smith's room
18. Roof: eaves
19. Roof: course 2
20. Roof: course 3
21. Roof: course 4
22. Roof: course 5
23. Roof: course 6
24. Ridge
25. Gable ends
26. Forge hearth
27. Forge hood
28. Chimney
29. Lean-to posts
30. Lean-to roof
31. Anvil and quench trough
32. Cobbled yard
33. Cart
34. Hay and firewood
35. Hitching post and trough
36. Lantern posts and bushes

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