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Title: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 01 December 2024, 05:26:23 PM: (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Musketeers-figures-02-1024x399.jpg)

Follow the building of a Three Musketeers’ headquarters based on the set from the BBC TV series on my blog – here:

https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/ (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/)

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1600s-building-modules-02-1-768x556.jpg)

I feel it’s time for a bit of swashbuckling!

Michael

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Doksany-Convent-01-1-1024x676.jpg)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Count Belisarius on 01 December 2024, 08:18:11 PM: Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 01 December 2024, 09:10:37 PM: I don't have any Redoubt or Renegade musketeer types, myself. I'm sure someone on this excellent forum will help us out.

I'm looking forward to getting hold of the yet to be released Bloody Miniatures' not quite The Three Musketeers pack.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Count Belisarius on 01 December 2024, 09:34:05 PM: Yes. The upcoming Swashbucklers look splendid
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: v_lazy_dragon on 02 December 2024, 11:28:34 AM: Quote from: Count Belisarius on 01 December 2024, 08:18:11 PM
Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?
I can't give specific comparisons as I don't have the musketeers set; but the Northstar 1672 range as a whole is fairly chunky and works with the figures I have from Bicorne and Bloody (and by extension Renegade, although I don't have any of them). Redoubt will be bigger, but if you took their bases down some and maybe added a shim to the NS/Bircorne/Bloody models they should fit ok
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Count Belisarius on 02 December 2024, 01:25:57 PM: Thanks for that. Always good to get the all clear on purchasing new figures! 🙂
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Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 05 December 2024, 01:37:00 PM: (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1600s-lean-to-01-1024x594.jpg)

A lean-to built for the Musketeers' Garrison against a new wall design. See post 5:

https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/5-garrison-lean-to/ (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/5-garrison-lean-to/)

Taking an elegant side step away from the courtyard build for a moment, we’ve already acquired enough real estate to provide our miniature Musketeers with enough of a stage set for a street scene encounter. But where are the Red Guard?

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1600s-lean-to-02a-768x576.jpg)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: serran on 05 December 2024, 05:42:19 PM: Buildings look great! Looking forward to seeing more of this. I have the Redoubt figures but IMHO they are just too big to be compatible with other ranges. I'm hoping Bloody Miniatures comes up with some Cardinal's Guard.....
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Calvin59 on 05 December 2024, 06:39:00 PM: Elevation of the Hôtel des Mousquetaires Gris, rue du Bac
France, circa 1720
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Département des estampes et de la photographie
Inv. R. de C. 1035 / Fossier 19.13
In 1659, Louis XIV ordered that a hotel be built for his company of musketeers, who thus became the first soldiers of the royal army to benefit from a barracks, to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, subject, until then, to the housing of "men of war". Due to work carried out laboriously and without great care, the barracks quickly became dilapidated and several projects aimed to move it. Robert de Cotte, the king's first architect, was finally commissioned to restore the building in 1720. This elevation shows the original state of the façade on rue du Bac (left) and his improvement project (right). ;)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: fastolfrus on 05 December 2024, 10:08:31 PM: Quote from: Count Belisarius on 01 December 2024, 08:18:11 PM
Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?

Warbases have some too, but the Northstar figures are better dressed
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Calvin59 on 06 December 2024, 08:01:14 AM: I would say that the Reboubt figurines are more from the time of Louis XIII, than those of North Star are from the time of Louis XIV. ;)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 06 December 2024, 11:00:58 AM: Dumas has D’Artagnan begin his story in 1625 while the BBC TV series begins in 1630. However, both in the reign of Louis XIII. Louis XIV’s barrack building, although interesting, is much too late for my Musketeers and my model is of the BBC TV’s Garrison stage set.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Calvin59 on 06 December 2024, 12:18:26 PM: Yes I agree SupremeLittlenessDesigns, but under the time of Louis XIII the musketeers were housed in the homes of the inhabitants, and it was only under the time of Louis XIV that they were barracked. It was Mazarin who dissolved the corps in 1646 and it was Louis XIV who recreated it in 1657.
But your model is superb, and I would have great pleasure in following the evolution of its development. ;)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 06 December 2024, 01:34:58 PM: In the BBC series the Musketeers are housed in private accommodation. The Musketeers’ Garrison is just a fancy name for a stable block where Treville has an upstairs office and the Musketeers do a bit of training outside in the courtyard.

The set doubles up as a street scene. There is an attempted assassination of the royal couple who enter the street through what is the Garrison’s entranceway but then take a sharp right down what appears to be a completely different street. All quite similar to what we will be able to do in miniature with these modular models!
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Calvin59 on 06 December 2024, 02:44:39 PM: Thank you for your clarifications, so I understand the situation much better. As I told you, I would be very happy to follow the progress of your project. ;)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 06 December 2024, 03:38:02 PM: (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-06d-768x470.jpg)

The Garrison's entranceway wall is complete.

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-06a-1024x510.jpg)

https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/6-module-with-a-ground-floor-room/ (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/6-module-with-a-ground-floor-room/)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 08 December 2024, 04:35:30 PM: I finished assembling the Musketeers’ Garrison model today. The design is based on the build done for the BBC TV series The Musketeers.

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-08c1200-768x662.jpg)

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-08b-1024x512.jpg)

Michael’s Three Musketeers Blog (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 09 December 2024, 02:10:39 PM: that is great... :-*
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 09 December 2024, 04:53:44 PM: Thanks! Need to get the texture paste out, now.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Codsticker on 09 December 2024, 05:32:21 PM: Quote from: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 09 December 2024, 04:53:44 PM
Thanks! Need to get the texture paste out, now.
That's going to look fabulous when it is done.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: serran on 09 December 2024, 08:19:32 PM: Can't wait to see the painted item...
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 09 December 2024, 09:13:11 PM: Talking of painting - in the photo above, in the corner of the stage set, while the wall with the window is an actual convent wall, the wall with the archway is just plaster and chipboard but painted very well to match.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: fastolfrus on 10 December 2024, 06:10:58 PM: will it be going into production?
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 11 December 2024, 01:01:03 AM: Yes, the plan is to release as many of the kits as possible.

Michael
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 11 December 2024, 06:05:22 PM: A necessary corner module to join the setup’s courtyard walls. The module has door add-ons. For this setup, I prefer the corner being closed off and not being an open arcade. More on the blog.

Michael’s Three Musketeers Blog (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/)

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-08c-1024x743.jpg)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 11 December 2024, 06:56:45 PM: what's accessiblity like? lift of roofs for the first floor, but I don't see a seem to get to any of the arcade or those closed off areas/rooms on the ground floor.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 11 December 2024, 07:39:07 PM: They're all completely open at the back and, like the stage set, there aren't any roofs apart from the lean-to type. If you add a wall add-on to the back of the arcade then you still have access from the front. I would add a wall add-on to either the front or the back of the open arcade, not both. I'll put up a post with photos of the upstairs rooms. And there are a couple of secret rooms for treasure and fugitives coming up!

Michael
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 17 December 2024, 05:31:57 PM: First bit of colour with some ground tile samples.

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GTT-101-03-1024x370.jpg)

More on my Three Musketeers Blog:

First Colour (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/9-first-colour/)

Michael
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 17 December 2024, 08:40:03 PM: I’ve begun to texture and paint the façade modules. These are the three modules that make up the wall with the archway entrance to the courtyard.

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-10-2b-720.jpg)

More on my blog: Michael’s Three Musketeers Blog (https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/)

(https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Musketeers-Garrison-10-3-520.jpg)
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 18 December 2024, 07:56:26 AM: lovely
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: white knight on 18 December 2024, 11:17:41 AM: Splendid. I want to build this in 1/60 scale, so will definitely follow with interest.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: serran on 18 December 2024, 05:51:04 PM: Superb stuff!
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: Codsticker on 18 December 2024, 09:58:08 PM: The wall texture looks excellent.
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 14 January 2025, 05:14:47 PM: I don’t know if this will be of use: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=147895.0
Title: Re: [commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison
Post by: SupremeLittlenessDesigns on 15 January 2025, 05:39:53 PM: Quote from: anevilgiraffe on 14 January 2025, 05:14:47 PM
I don’t know if this will be of use: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=147895.0

Looks pretty useful, especially for patches of cobbles and fudging street corners. Thanks!