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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Chris Abbey on July 01, 2024, 07:00:02 PM
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I have been playing Gangs of Rome and Pulp Alley set in First Century Rome for a while now, and have been slowly building up a collection of suitable terrain.
A month or so ago I had an idea to put together a gaming table based on the multi-occupancy tenement blocks set above shops, workshops and lock ups, which seemed to be the type of accommodation shared by most of Rome's million or so residents at the time.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3804-980x501.jpg)
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3767-1-980x394.jpg)
This thread and linked hobby blog is going to document it's development.
So far I have three shops with one story of apartments above them and some shop interiors for a retail bakery and a Thermopolium.
More photos and details in my hobby blog@ https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
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That's some good looking bread! It's all good, wonderful work.
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Those look amazing!! The bread looks fresh enough to eat!! 😉
Well done and thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
😎
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I great looking start, I can't wait to see more.
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Today I finished the Potters shop, and put the buildings, shop fittings and miniatures on the table to take some photos.
(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3815-1024x683.jpg)
Here's a general view of the street, four shops with single level of apartments so far.
(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3810-1024x802.jpg)
Some citizens sharing an amphora of wine and playing some dice outside the Pottery shop.
(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3813-1024x696.jpg)
Mother & daughter hard at work keeping Rome supplied with bread.
(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3817-1024x619.jpg)
Unloading supplies from the Ox Cart,
Additional photos on my hobby blog @ https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
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That looks great! Lots of interesting visual details and it seems like it will be quite playable for games.
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Great looking terrain and models!
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That’s gorgeous!
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Great stuff Chris!!
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Awesome terrain! Really impressive stuff :)
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Fabulous looking set up! :-* :-* :-*
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This is indeed very nice !
Where do the furnitures come from It really is splendid to give life to these building and I could use some for my GoR bakery ;)
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Hi Mellal, everything is from Sally 4th! The miniatures, furniture, neoprene mat and the buildings are under development and will be available in the next week or so.
Links are in my hobby blog article: https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
You can find the furniture and miniatures here: https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product-category/sally_4th_miniatures/might_of_rome/a-street-of-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product-category/sally_4th_miniatures/might_of_rome/a-street-of-the-aventine/)
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Thanks ! I did discovered that reading you blog yesterday... I am over seas, on the continent of taxes :')
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This is an outstanding work of art!!!!!!
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Stunning and inspirational stuff!
I had the same idea of using spectators as seated figures but am struggling to find stools and a table at a price I can afford. Can you tell me where yours came from? They look ideal. TIA!
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Hi Ithoriel,
The tables and stools in the photo were also from Sally 4th. We have a number of metal furnishings and detailing products that we have used ourselves, but never got around to putting on the web site. I have rectified this now and put a pack together of just stools and tables, and a pack with seated Romans sitting on them, like the ones in my photos.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/Rome-Metal-6-scaled.jpg)
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3832-scaled.jpg)
They are now on our 'A Street off the Aventine' page:
https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product-category/sally_4th_miniatures/might_of_rome/a-street-of-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product-category/sally_4th_miniatures/might_of_rome/a-street-of-the-aventine/)
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Ooooh! Hubba! Hubba! Hubba!
Thanks Chris.
I'm off to depress my bank manager even further. :D
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Bought! :)
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Thanks, hope you enjoy our Roman range as much as we do.
We have lots and lots more under development. I am afraid since discovering the works of Lindsey Davis and Mary Beard I have become a bit obsessed with First Century Rome which offers so many possibilities for gaming with Pulp Alley, Gangs of Rome and now with a Lovecraft tint with Cohors Cthulhu!
If any one has not yet discovered Lindsey's fictional, but very well researched world of Marcus Didius Falco and then Flavia Albia, they are highly recommended, cracking good reads. Falco is a First Century Gumshoe, a hard nosed private investigator, or 'informer' in the language of the time. He is a Republican by inclination, but more often than he would like drawn in to working for Vespasian on Imperial business. By birth a plebeian, falls in love and marries a senators daughter, Helena with whom he travels the Roman world solving mysteries and attempting to do the right thing. I like him!
Lindsey has a website https://lindseydavis.co.uk/ (https://lindseydavis.co.uk/)
Once a month, on a Tuesday evening she does an hours reading over zoom of one of her books. You can sign up under the 'events' tab on her website. Highly recommended.
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Over the weekend I did a lot more work on my Roman Insular project.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3876-980x659.jpg)
These building kits will be available from Sally 4th at the end of the week, next week at the latest.
They are multi-material kits using 3mm & 2mm MDF, Greyboard and cast resin roofs.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3877-980x759.jpg)
They are designed to easily stack, with lots of variety and options. If you want you can embed rare earth magnets in the walls to hold the buildings together into a block.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3878-980x887.jpg)
'How many hands in the fountain?'
Also painted up the cast resin fountain, an essential part of any Roman street scene!
https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
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Thanks, hope you enjoy our Roman range as much as we do.
We have lots and lots more under development. I am afraid since discovering the works of Lindsey Davis and Mary Beard I have become a bit obsessed with First Century Rome which offers so many possibilities for gaming with Pulp Alley, Gangs of Rome and now with a Lovecraft tint with Cohors Cthulhu!
If any one has not yet discovered Lindsey's fictional, but very well researched world of Marcus Didius Falco and then Flavia Albia, they are highly recommended, cracking good reads. Falco is a First Century Gumshoe, a hard nosed private investigator, or 'informer' in the language of the time. He is a Republican by inclination, but more often than he would like drawn in to working for Vespasian on Imperial business. By birth a plebeian, falls in love and marries a senators daughter, Helena with whom he travels the Roman world solving mysteries and attempting to do the right thing. I like him!
Lindsey has a website https://lindseydavis.co.uk/ (https://lindseydavis.co.uk/)
Once a month, on a Tuesday evening she does an hours reading over zoom of one of her books. You can sign up under the 'events' tab on her website. Highly recommended.
I wholeheartedly second your praise for the Falco and Flavia Albia series. The major characters are a microcosm of Roman life. Petronius and the Vigiles are particular favourites of mine.
I'm setting my own games in the 1st Century BCE, the era of Clodius, Milo, The Gracchi Brothers and M. L. Crassus' extortioner firemen.
No Vigiles in that era, they are an Imperial invention.
I have, however, discovered the Tresviri Capitales, aka the Tresviri Nocturni, a similar bunch of reprobates acting as night watch and fire brigade.
They had their HQ in the Forum but I am using a little poetic license to posit other outstations in which to stash additional firefighting equipment and perhaps reprobates before onward transmission to the Forum.
I am using Sarissa's Roman Watchtower Dice Tower, even though of a later date, to act as such.
(https://sarissa-precision.com/cdn/shop/products/DT20_Limes_Tower_360x@2x.jpg?v=1663067891)
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Over the weekend I did a lot more work on my Roman Insular project.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3876-980x659.jpg)
These building kits will be available from Sally 4th at the end of the week, next week at the latest.
They are multi-material kits using 3mm & 2mm MDF, Greyboard and cast resin roofs.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3877-980x759.jpg)
They are designed to easily stack, with lots of variety and options. If you want you can embed rare earth magnets in the walls to hold the buildings together into a block.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3878-980x887.jpg)
That looks awesome. Something else you could consider is tile antefixes. On fancier buildings these capped the ends of each row of curved tiles so you couldn't see the gap. They could be cast in strings of five or whatever to match the spaces in your roof.
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That looks awesome. Something else you could consider is tile antefixes. On fancier buildings these capped the ends of each row of curved tiles so you couldn't see the gap. They could be cast in strings of five or whatever to match the spaces in your roof.
Thanks for that, I will add to the list of Roman things to look into!
Over the weekend I painted up the metal Sally 4th butchers shop accessory set.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3911-1-980x666.jpg)
I had the set on my desk for several weeks but had not done anything with it, as I was unsure how to actually hang the carcasses, legs of ham and game birds. In the end the solution was very simple. I used my pin vice drill to drill small holes in the MDF walls and then unravelled a couple of paperclips to give me some metal for pegs and hanging rails which I painted gunmetal and then superglued into the holes.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3910-980x720.jpg)
The game birds and legs of ham were attached to a hanging rail using fusewire. This was wrapped around object and then around rail before holding in place with a drop of superglue.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/IMG_E3889-980x530.jpg)
Lots more photos, links and details on my hobby blog @ https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
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This is all looking so good!
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Lovely attention to detail. There's even an Ex-leper!
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Great new shop, such an inspiration to make our own roman neighbourhood.
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Looks superb! :-*
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Oh, this is amazing! Really nice stuff :)
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(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Roman-Town-2-780x1024.jpg)
(https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Roman-Town-1-1024x663.jpg)
Last night, as part of our project to build a diorama of first century life in Aldborough, our local Roman town, my cousin Richard sent me this evocative illustrations of buildings and daily life in the market place and forum of a first century provincial town in Britain. I like my terrain to be multi-purpose, so it has got me thinking that if we designed a ground floor large gateway module, our Insula shops and buildings could be reconfigured with the shops and market stalls on the inside to represent a provincial forum.
https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/a-street-off-the-aventine/)
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Fantastic detail Chris. An inspiration for us all I think
Cheers
Matt
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(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/28mm-Roman-Litter-Palanquin-1-980x813.jpg)
This is the latest addition to my 'A Street of the Aventine', First Century Rome gaming project.
A Litter or Palanquin with passenger and four bearers.
I can see this featuring in many games of Gangs of Rome as a scenario objective, as well as in my Falco inspired Pulp Alley campaign.
(https://ik.imagekit.io/1qkndzqt9i/wp-content/uploads/28mm-Roman-Litter-Palanquin-2-1-980x1020.jpg)
https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product/roman-palanquin/ (https://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/product/roman-palanquin/)
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Just bought a litter from Iron Gate Scenery today at Claymore, I hope I can do it as much justice as you have done to yours! Lovely looking piece.
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Nice job!
And huh, the Roman ones look a lot more comfie than the Japanese boxes.
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Yes, I think the Romans knew how to do things with style!
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Wow. What a really fantastic Rome project!