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| With the barracks sitting above the archway, from outside the fort |
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| And from inside the fort - the building itself has a choice of two ground floors - with and without the archway |
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| The scale mismatch doesn't suit everyone, but this is my gaming scale system - 1/72 scale officer of engineers standing on the 1/100 scale buildings. I've got used to it, and there are some useful advantages |
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| And this is the alternative configuration, with the archway not running under the barrack block |
Looks great! Are there more walls and buildings to come?
ReplyDeleteHi Ray - the plan (?) at present is to add bits and pieces to my existing (cast resin) Vauban fort, which has never even been close to being useable. The resin bits are finished in a yellowish brick, the new parts from the 3D printer are, as you see, masonry. I think a mixture is OK - I also have medieval-type fortifications which are in the grey masonry. My ECW siege experiments have used whatever I had available from the medieval kit, and some of my 18th and 19th Century efforts should really use more modern architecture, but the Peninsular Napoleonic episodes are likely to use a mix-&-match approach - Vauban would not have been impressed by the defences of Ciudad Rodrigo, for example. It's also possible that the increased elegance of the 3D printed stuff puts me off the rather more rough and ready Terrain Warehouse pieces, but a complete migration would be expensive and probably unnecessary if I can work around such an extreme idea. Forts are tricky - good equipment is a real turn-on, and it's easy to develop mad plans. If you hear of my buying a printer then you may have a chortle at my expense - maybe we'll all have them soon? - but at the moment I am doing what I can!
DeleteThe (resin) Terrain Warehouse pieces are quite nicely painted (by the manufacturer), and they include glacis pieces, but they do commit me to a hexagonal fort pattern (most of the manufacturers do a pentagonal or square plan).
To answer your question, I'll see how this shapes up as I build up the range of kit available. It also depends heavily on my getting a viable ruleset to play sieges - I am developing my own (have been for a long time!), and Eric Burgess' game is supposed to be published early next year (that will be the 8th or 9th year I've been expecting it...), but that is likely to be heavily weighted toward Piquet-style tactical rules (Field of Battle, probably). I would like to get my own rules working - they are still progressing - I believe I now have a workable system to cover mining, without maps and without an umpire.
Thats a really nice paint job Tony. Thanks for including the figure, again to my eyes the difference in scale works just fine. 3D printing has exploded onto our hobby scene and the possibilities are endless.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee - every time I paint buildings I think how much more fun this is than trying to get the piping straight around someone's lapels. I jest, of course - maybe.
Delete3D printers offer some mind-boggling possibilities - I think their use may get silly for a while, in the way that laser-cut MDF has become a a bit of a growth industry. Rule of thumb for buildings is that they should be scruffy - flat MDF, and plastic kits from Airfix and Faller etc, are nice but they make up into toy houses - real buildings mostly don't look like that.
Well you wouldn't want to leave these dangling.
ReplyDeleteLovely work, WM
Indeed so - thank you WM - look after yourself.
DeleteLooks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
Hi Stokes - thanks - Your own miniature buildings are little works of art, so I am glad you like this stuff. Trying to make little buildings look weathered and scruffy is a very liberating activity, I find!
DeleteYour brushwork brings these pieces to life. First rate work!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jon - very therapeutic task.
DeleteOoh nice! Shiny. Lovely stuff Tony.
ReplyDeleteThank you, young sir.
DeleteAnd that’s why I like hanging round here. Not many places I’m considered young 😁
DeleteThat's a very nice result inshall be chasing you now for a full breakdown of the colours usedu
ReplyDeleteThey look rather fine Tony...
ReplyDeleteThe few visible build lines seem to enhance the stone effect rather than detract from it...
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly - I've kept the parts separate, to give more options, rather than gluing everything together, so the "joins" are just going to be a feature!
DeleteLovely stuff! Interesting re the scale. Being somewhat penurious I have been putting together some paper buildings for 28mm from the Paperboys on Campaign series of books. They look surprisingly good and the designer had the same idea about scale, i.e. make the buildings a bit smaller than life size. It works very well I think.
ReplyDeleteHi Dave - underscale buildings offer a number of advantages:
Delete* cheaper(!)
* reduces the footprint, helps lessen the anomaly between groundscale and figure scale
* I find a cluster of smaller buildings looks more like a village than a single edifice in the figure scale
* I always thought - right back to the days of Peter Gilder, that the added realism of having full-sized buildings to match the figures was something of a nonsense if two dozen men were supposed to be a representation of a battalion!
It's just a matter of choice, of course - I really worried for a year or so about changing to smaller buildings - such is the conditioning.