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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: thomas oliver on 20 June 2010, 04:33:37 PM
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After reading lxg and coming across vsf ive always wanted to do a project based upon it so I have though of some buildings Including Buckingham palace, tower bridge (mite have under construction), British Museum, science museum, Baker street, Victorian steel works and also a mine.
I was also thinking of bringing Victorian literature into it as well and have a bombed library with some of the characters scattered around it such as phi leas Fogg taking off from the roof in his hot air balloon and the mad hatter and some giant mushrooms at the front of the library plus Dr Moreau with the three little pigs hybrids also Dorian grey with his painting or captain hook, little red riding hood, wolf, rat man plus lots more of literature characters.
The science museum I was thinking of having it related to gothic horror and have part of the front blew off with Dr Frankenstein and his lab exposed inside and plus the iron giant as well and little mermaid and the swamp thing in lab jars.
Upon Baker Street I was thinking along the lines of jack the ripper and Professor Moriarty along with the famous Detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr Watson along with some Victorian Police.
British museum I was thinking along the lines of dinosaur’s skeletons, The Mummy and British explorers such as Allan Quatermain.
I’ve always like the foundry Queen Victoria Empress of India figure with the shot gun and wanted to make a piece of terrain to included this figure so I thought of Buckingham palace and then I stumble upon ironclads Grenadier Guard which would also be perfect with this piece.
wud love to here your comments or ideas
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Sounds good so far. Ambitious, but good. ;)
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You might want to look back through a few existing projects for more inspiration too :
Kew Gardens:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=8130.0
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=8149.0
There are others too, including a docklands section.
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Just a quick search of the workbench board
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19724.msg239179#msg239179 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19724.msg239179#msg239179)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19770.msg239805#msg239805 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19770.msg239805#msg239805)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18608.msg224271#msg224271 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18608.msg224271#msg224271)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18773.msg226402#msg226402 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18773.msg226402#msg226402)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=17078.msg204636#msg204636 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=17078.msg204636#msg204636)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=16493.msg197111#msg197111
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=16493.msg197111#msg197111)
My own little addition
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18553.msg223450#msg223450 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=18553.msg223450#msg223450)
Loads more around the VSF board itself. Try some of the battle reports.
Malamute has a load of Victorian buildings on his displaced miniatures site
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Also check out this website for inspiration:
http://www.spiritofthegame.org.uk/endofempire/about.htm (http://www.spiritofthegame.org.uk/endofempire/about.htm)
These guys consistently win awards at shows for their Victorian London terrain.
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thank u 4 the links found some great insperation also got afew good ideas to make big ben and hav the tower bridge. if u you got anymore ideas let us know cheers
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i hav got some picture of my buckingham palace model but i dnt know how to upload them since they arnt on any other website
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Easy way is to sign up to a free photo host site. I use Flickr.
www.flickr.com
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hey just come back off hol so I thought I would show my progress so far of my Buckingham Palace model there are more recent images to follow think of putting some battle damage on one side but still thinking on it (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4777269092)
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Thomas
Your post just has a box with a red X in it. Although experimentally clicking on the red X takes one to the Flickr page. I tried reposting the link to the picture but I guess the forum software dosen't like Flickr.
'Strewth that's a BIG piece. It'll look amazing once done and be a bugger to store.
It will make a show stopping convention game I think.
Keep us posted.
James
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Going to paint it with a stone color or wil you be putting a fascade of stone work over it? Paper or scribed foam?
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cheers got afew more recent photos with alot more detail upon it il keep it in summer house or garage lol wanted it big to be able to do a more realistic scale with the figures il make the bricks using card cut up and also textured wallpaper. im thinkin of doin one side bomb damage as well
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Can't even see the cross :(
If you're posting a pic from Flickr, you need to go into 'All Sizes' and get the direct URL to the pic from the bottom, not the one it tells you to use. The forum software doesn't like that one.
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It's impressive! Well done so far!
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I remembered that if you 'qoute' someone you get all the stuff in their post including anything you can't see :D
That's an impressive build!
Here's the pic...
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4777269092_8d5acbe7cc_b.jpg)
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Bloody hell that's big! :o Very impressive though. Will make a nice backdrop for a game.
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So thats the back of the Palace then, Are you doing the front as well? How about the memorial in front of it? Will be watching this closely :D
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this is the front of the palace but im stuck on what to do with the back any ideas i wa thinking to do it same as the front. ive got abit further with the palace here are afew updates
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4804691375/)
if the image doesnt cum up there are more pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4804691375/in/photostream/
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im also doing a drawing as well of some of the characters i want to include in my steampunk literature world
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4804692893/in/photostream/
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if any one as got any pictures of the top of the palace then i wud be greatful or if any 1 as got any ideas on how to make the windows
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4805313602/
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Very very impressive.
How about Google Earth for a view of the top of the palace. It wont be brilliant but will give you an idea.
As for windows how about printing window frames onto acetate sheets. Svennn did that for a build he put together for me earlier in the year so he may be able to give you some advice on how to do it.
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Now that is a piece of game terrain worth fighting for-great work.
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Now that is a piece of game terrain worth fighting for-great work.
And how! :-*
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I have two words: In sane.
Of course, there was that gutted Reichstag I saw...
There've been some recent BBC documentaries on refurbishing the palace, but I'm not good at noodling the Beeb's site. I'm sure there's footage you could come across, including roof info.
I think most folks assume just the front, on one edge of the table, would be apropos of an approach battle; you could even hang the building from a 'play room' wall, and push the table underneath.
You aren't intending for it to be a 'cutaway' to be able to carry the battle inside, are you?
Doug
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if any one as got any pictures of the top of the palace then i wud be greatful
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but as you're doing the palace post-1913, here's a floorplan:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/Plan_of_Buckingham_palace.gif/350px-Plan_of_Buckingham_palace.gif)
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no i dnt think il be doing the inside of it lol but i think im going to do the back same as the front
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after getting so far with it im startin to think if the brick size looks out of scale
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Keep with it. Now you've got a good way in you'll start to see lots of things you're not happy with, the trick is to only change the things that will actually have a real impact. With brick sizes, if you were making a terraced house then, yes it can matter. With a palace which is usually made from stone blocks then it's far less noticeable once done.
Might be worth browsing through here, there are some pics you won't fins elsewhere :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy/
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You know the 'Back' of the Palace is actually the front and is in a light tan coloured stonework.
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well ive decided to do both sides the same ive been working on the other side lateley thts y i havnt posted any new pics recentley
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As Dewbakuk said, stay with it. Its a very impressive build and if a button counter has the temerity to criticise the size of the bricks laugh hysterically at them while pointing out the tiny bits of spittle forming at the corner of their lips as they trumpet on (yes I have issues ;))
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It looks awesome, definitely keep going with this and I don't think the bricks look out of scale. You have to finish this as its massive amounts of inspiration.
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WoW!There really is some amazing stuff going on in the links and posts! :o :-*
Christopher
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il defo finish it off then i mite paint some characters after or build the british museum or tower bridge
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then i mite paint some characters after or build the british museum or tower bridge
:o
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got alot further with my buckingham palace model ive consentrated on the what the sides of the palace will look like. plz comment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4840742389/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4841358322/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4840746619/in/photostream/
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for the very top of the palace i think im goin to use this textured wallpaper or perhaps it cud be used as tiles for a roof
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4840750279/in/photostream/
and this 1 for on the balconies of the palace
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4841364618/in/photostream/
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That is Unreal! Great work
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Okay, I've looked at a couple of other images in your photostream NOT pointed at from the thread.
I think they explain much... :o
Not constructive for you on my part, but I can only think these thoughts are what really drive you on.
Doug
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this is the front of the palace without the apex piece in the middle to give you an idea of the size.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4857442496/in/photostream/
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here is an up to date photo of the palace as you can see i am using textured wallpaper and warhammer bits to create the detail of architecture.
i have now started on the sides of the palace
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4857439300/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4857440862/in/photostream/
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here are some more pics of my buckingham palace model which i am currentley building
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4856822351/in/photostream/
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Continues to impress, but you knew that... ;)
Doug
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got abit more of the palace completed been concentrating on the roof
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4865571217/in/photostream/
also been adding more detail to the sides
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4865574557/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4865575683/in/photostream/
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:-* Interesting use of space marine backpacks!
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:o :o :o That's a truly fantastic build you've got going their. I'm already imagining a trooping of the guards being interupted by a Martian cyclinder crashing in the grounds or maybe a sneak attack by the dastardly Prussians!
Keep up the good work.
Cheers
Fuzzy.
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Bloomin' marvelous.
Keep up the great work.
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cheers for all the comments its nearley finished now just got afew little details b4 i start to paint it does any 1 know where i could get the queens coat of arms from the lion and the unicorn with the shield ?
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got afew more photos here just doing the tiny details at mo which take the longest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4882120728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4882121476/in/photostream/
if any 1 has got any idea bout how to create the queens coat of arms the lion and the unicorn with the shield im all ears lol
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Stunning work, its coming on wonderfully. ;D
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if any 1 has got any idea bout how to create the queens coat of arms the lion and the unicorn with the shield im all ears lol
Print it out, cut it out, mount it on plastic and stick it on?
Obviously it'd work best with a good picture of a sculpted one; http://www.bryanrawlings.com/
Perhaps there's a cap badge suitable... although scratching my head on that one...
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How about a key or watch fob?
SteveN
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finished all the little details and started painting ive painted the whole palace in white then goin over it in pale grey washes but not sure if its workin ive put examples on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4993039987/
i also found a cap badge to use 4 the coat of arms
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Outstanding Thomas!
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:o
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thank u 4 the comments am still abit stuck on the pale grey wash if its workin ?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/4998186379/in/photostream/
ive upload 3 pics with the pale wash grey on the palace wud like to know what u think to colour weather or not u think its enuff
i keep thinkin of puttin a pale brown over it as well to give it a stone effect ?
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Inspired! I want to play on it! :-*
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For your pale brown idea, try it out on some scrap piece first that you have washed with the greys you have used so far and see if it works before hitting the main project?
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:-*
Bloody Hell!
That's amazing!
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cheers for the comments going to get some grendier guards painted after this project seems like ive been making it 4 ages lol
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I must admit that I have been quite lazy about going to the flicker pages to look at the photos.
But when you do :o :o :o :o WOW
Out standing stuff the painting has really brought it together. :-* :-* :-*
What are you going to mount it on? Cobbles, pavement or gardens?
Are there going to be grounds?
Where did you get the cap badge from if you don’t mind me asking?
Keep at it! I want to see it in a game.
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i was thinking bout mouting it on cobbles perhaps ive decided just to keep it white with a grey wash i tried adding a pale brown but it didnt give the effect i wanted
ive just added 4 pics of close up of the palace plus another with the colums in place
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51881669@N05/5011810350/in/photostream/
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This is looking fantastic
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Simply outstanding! :o
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hello i know i havnt been on for abit been doing alot of painting lateley tryin to get it back up to scratch started a new build as well. im building the science museum as a possible base for a victorian torchwood or the layer of dr frankenstien and dr moreauits alot smaller than my buckingham palace lol will get some pics posted soon
cheers tom
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Well, if any thread deserved a dose of necromancy, this...
Oh, c**p, I hadn't seen the last piccie in the string... :o
Too stunned to continue.
Doug
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It's perfectly ok to resurrect your own threads, especially if they are this good :)
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Wow, that is just.. amazing.