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Author Topic: Hue 68 - UD 26/4 more buildings references  (Read 6975 times)

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #45 on: April 25, 2019, 07:59:08 PM »
want to know something wicked?  Be an Ontos driver and be with your head out when all six RCL fire...


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Actually it’d be a cool mod to have an exposed driver!
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Offline Poiter50

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #46 on: April 26, 2019, 01:58:51 AM »
I've just last night finished reading Tom Abrahams story of an Englishman in the US Army, served with 1 Air Cav as a platoon leader, was captured, tortured and escaped only to have a breakdown after a DUI arrest in the UK. Very interesting read particularly the Hue section.
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Offline manchesterreg

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #47 on: April 26, 2019, 07:16:42 AM »
Sadly the book by Tom Abrahams is full of mistruths  http://www.miafacts.org/the_cage.htm

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #48 on: April 26, 2019, 08:25:27 AM »
The terrain boards look great! My only suggestion would be to have shallower pitch to the roofs. Coastal Vietnam is not known for winter snowfall so sharply pitched roofs are rather uncommon.
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Offline Poiter50

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #49 on: April 26, 2019, 08:40:28 AM »
Interesting, I shall read on with your links.

Sadly the book by Tom Abrahams is full of mistruths  http://www.miafacts.org/the_cage.htm

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 25/4 more buildings WIP & 1/56 vehicles
« Reply #50 on: April 26, 2019, 10:13:53 AM »
The terrain boards look great! My only suggestion would be to have shallower pitch to the roofs. Coastal Vietnam is not known for winter snowfall so sharply pitched roofs are rather uncommon.

Thanks and yes. Only one of the roof lines is finished (ie tiles added) so they’re not in final form/profile.

Roof height was a bit of a conundrum in arriving at a mixed set of buildings for a block in The Triangle. I want some buildings with height for multi-level play. Looking at photos (not all of Hue), the sharper pitched, more modern (for then) examples of residential buildings seem to have had rooms in the roof, which in construction  terms and for gaming makes for an easy extra level.







For the prominent building, I was looking at French Colonial influences (see partial roofline towards top right):



The church - being a church - is a different matter. Obviously it’s construction is more of a statement rather than a concession to local design/weather.



All the above explanation aside, I agree that they need fine-tuning, which will come next. I also acknowledge that a block of just steeper pitched roofs will just look wrong as, as you say, they are very much the minority. I’ve still got two building tiles to make and they will be of a single-story, shallower-pitch style. For example:







I’ve also got the facades at the board edge to make, which will also be single-story (they need to be reached over). The end result should therefore be more of a mix favoured towards the shallower-pitch, though if it doesn’t look right I will fine-tune as I go along. Very happy to be corrected if I stray.  :)

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 26/4 more buildings references
« Reply #51 on: April 26, 2019, 10:22:09 AM »
Streets and shops

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 26/4 more buildings references
« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2019, 10:29:28 AM »
Thanks Shipka but I’m not doing anything like those, mine is mostly a residential block with a few semi-official buildings

Offline manchesterreg

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Re: Hue 68 - UD 26/4 more buildings references
« Reply #53 on: April 28, 2019, 08:12:17 AM »
Their is a good series on Youtube then and now film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYJZAN9AuI which should help