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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Aesthete on November 14, 2009, 08:14:22 AM

Title: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Aesthete on November 14, 2009, 08:14:22 AM

Not quite the right period, being from 1960, but there could be some details people here might find interesting:

(http://img1.cache.netease.com/cnews/2009/11/13/2009111315562261608.jpg)

(http://img1.cache.netease.com/cnews/2009/11/13/200911131556265b5c8.jpg)

(http://img1.cache.netease.com/cnews/2009/11/13/20091113155626a318f.jpg)

(http://img1.cache.netease.com/cnews/2009/11/13/200911131556237de10.jpg)

... with a few more here: http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200911/news-gb2312-957924.html

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Ignatieff on November 19, 2009, 03:34:14 PM

Interesting.  What are those weird buildings?  ???

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Poliorketes on November 19, 2009, 06:30:48 PM

Stupas from a temple complex.

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Ignatieff on November 19, 2009, 07:13:24 PM

Quote from: Poliorketes on November 19, 2009, 06:30:48 PM

Stupas from a temple complex.

'Stupas'???

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: sukhe_bator on November 27, 2009, 01:59:21 PM

Urdene Zu Monastery, built using the remains of the Mongolian city of Karakorum. It has 108 stupas around the perimeter wall. I've loosely based my monastery in 15mm on them. I could only manage 4!
(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x200/sukhe_bator/Mongolian%20monastery/mongol009-1.jpg)
(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x200/sukhe_bator/Mongolian%20monastery/mongol004.jpg)

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Ignatieff on November 27, 2009, 02:02:01 PM

AWESOME!!! :o :-* :o :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: argsilverson on November 27, 2009, 03:12:37 PM

Quote from: Ignatieff on November 27, 2009, 02:02:01 PM

AWESOME!!! :o :-* :o :-* :-* :-*

indeed!!!!!!!

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: former user on November 27, 2009, 04:45:56 PM

beautiful pics and scenery

I heard many mongols still live traditional, so the pics should be useful for a big time-span

still don't know what a "stupa" is

cereal depots?

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: argsilverson on November 27, 2009, 10:58:30 PM

and how these stupas were made?

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Wirelizard on November 28, 2009, 01:24:50 AM

That's amazing scenery, far cooler than most 15mm scenery - better than anything I've managed in 15mm!

The stupas look like they're built up with horizontal layers of card or plastic sheet or something?

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: Plynkes on November 28, 2009, 12:29:04 PM

Quote from: former user on November 27, 2009, 04:45:56 PM

still don't know what a "stupa" is

It's a sort of reliquary. There's the bones of a Buddhist saint or something else of religious significance inside each one of them.

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: former user on November 28, 2009, 12:44:08 PM

thx

many saints around there...
definitely a piece of scenery to enrich any buddhist context

Title: Re: A Few Pictures from Mongolia
Post by: sukhe_bator on December 08, 2009, 11:43:46 AM

Plynkes is right. A stupa or chorten is a sort of reliquary/shrine and focus of worship/reverence. In effect it is an almost abstract and highly stylised sculpture of the Buddha seated on a throne. The number of steps/levels are symbolic and highly significant (a fact I found out half way through the build - much to my annoyance!)

As for the building of my models. I made them by constructing a foamcore shell of the main dias and steps and covered it in milliput, then achieved the brick layer effect using a plasticard tool. The dome is foam covered in milliput and the 'spire' is carved balsa with a green stuff finial.

For every period I game I want to have some scenery recognisably idiosyncratic to give the game character.