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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on 29 June 2008, 01:33:54 PM
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By popular request (well, Malamute asked, so... ) here's the Green Man Inn plus the church in situ in the full village board.
Yes, that's one hell of a lot of resin :D
The inn is by Forgeworld, the church by Scenic Effects, the market hall by TM Terrain, the Peel tower by PMC, all the rest by Conflix and Sellthatstuffboy/PMC, including the bridge.
River sections and boards by moi.
Barrels, tables, benches, sacks, bundles, toilet shack, from a variety of sources including Ainsty, Frontline, Monolith and Skytrex.
Walls from the elusive Last Valley. Hedges and trees are K+M...
Think that's about it.
To give an idea of scale, that's a column of 40 (yes 40) cavalry riding through the town... ;D
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout6.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout8.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout7.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout9.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout5.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout2.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout3.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout4.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout1.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout12.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout11.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/layout10.jpg)
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Awesome :o:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Stunning :o :o :-* :-*
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*Clunk*
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The Sound of my jaw hitting the ground
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show off
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I go between loving it and falling over. What a beautiful set up.
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I'm totally stunned. I want to play on this table, immediately. :-*
Any clue how much money lies there? Man, just wishing I could be that stable in focussing on such a project. Chapeau, monsieur!
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:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o Words are just not enough :-* :-* :-*. I want to be 28mm tall sat in the inn looking out.
Cheers
Fritzy
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Yeeeooowww......
If you run out of storage space, let me know ;)
Stunning little town, there. Lust like driving through some of those French medieval towns/villages in Alsace-Lorraine...
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Great job! Gaming in a village like that would be a pure joy!
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AWESOMES!
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amazing! :o
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ABSOLUTELY STUNNIG!!!!!!
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A really, really beautiful table!
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I want to live there ;D
meow,
Matt
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I'm totally stunned. I want to play on this table, immediately. :-*
Any clue how much money lies there?
Thanks Doc :)
Well obviously the Forgeworld inn was ludicrously expensive at 85.00 GBP - but the other dozen or so resin buildings are nearly all in the 15.00 - 20.00 GBP price range: so probably around 300.00 GBP all in...
But then I've been collecting these buildings over the past 3 or 4 years, so it's not like I've spent all that money in one go... ;)
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:o :o :-*
are we allowed to swear?
Superb really! :)
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Simply amazing. The sort of thing to be envious of and certainly the sort of thing that you should be insanely proud of.
Top stuff,
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I don't think I have anything to add - WOW!
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Great table! :-*
Olivier
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Well Captain, I am so happy you posted these photos. ;D It look superb. I think everybody else has said all you can say. I am so looking forward to seeing it in the flesh and having a game :D
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Bloody hell, Cptn...
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Ah Ha! Clock tower! Sorry old chap or maybe young chap, but isn't your clock tower a tad early by all accounts! Otherwise top show!
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Fantastic set up, I can say no more than has already been said :-*
Who/how did you do the terrain tiles?
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Bloody hell, Cptn...
My thoughts exactly :-*
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Bloody hell, Cptn...
My thoughts exactly :-*
I've seen worse :-I
lol lol lol ;)
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awsome table
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wowza!!!!
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So nice! Like that table!
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Ah Ha! Clock tower! Sorry old chap or maybe young chap, but isn't your clock tower a tad early by all accounts! Otherwise top show!
Hi Helen,
Middle-aged chap, if you please. I'm a mere stripling of 45 ;)
Yes, I did wonder about the clock in the church tower - there again, there are lots of references in Shakespeare to 'the clock striking twelve' and so on... So they definitely had public clocks in the latter C16th - I'm just not sure they had started mounting them in church towers that early. Probably not. Still, suspension of disbelief and all that... This is still the best looking church I've ever found on the market, so I'll live with the clock :)
Apart from that, the great thing about this set-up is that actually, it is pretty timeless (ha ha!) By which I mean you could use this board for pretty much any scenario from The Wars of The Roses through to The Eagle Has Landed, and all points in between...
Who/how did you do the terrain tiles?
I made the terrain boards. Basically, they're just 3mm-4mm MDF rectangles liberally daubed with a sand, grit, emulsion, and PVA mix. Roads, trackways, pond surfaces, etc are scraped out of the mix whilst wet, then once dry, the whole lot is sprayed black, then drybrushed with an earthy colour matt emulsion, with white gradually mixed in to create some highlighting on the texture. Then patches of static grass mixed with scatter material, glued on in random areas... Four sheets make up this table. I have several others with different features on...
Cheers
Richard
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Superb!!!
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Wow! Really stunning. :o
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Oh my heavens, this is magnificent!
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o_o
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:P (x10.000)...
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Just had to post again. I have spent the day continually opening this thread and drooling repeatedly over the photos. ;D
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Just had to post again. I have spent the day continually opening this thread and drooling repeatedly over the photos. ;D
Haha. Drool away, Nick ;)
Actually, it's far cleverer of you to build haciendas and churches from scratch. Painting resin and artistically arranging it isn't that tough - just effective when seen en masse.
I can do a Northwest Frontier layout on this scale too. And a pirates layout.
The observant will have noticed the rather strange red sand bases on all my trees. That's because they are mainly used in my NW Frontier / Future Wars / Pirates / F&I Wars set-ups, and pressed into service for my later forays into Reivers and ECW...
If it's not going to sicken my fellow LAF'ers to much, give me a week or two and I'll set them up and take some pics... 8)
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I can do a Northwest Frontier layout on this scale too. And a pirates layout.
If it's not going to sicken my fellow LAF'ers to much, give me a week or two and I'll set them up and take some pics... 8)
Yes, please :)
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Please do... I need more inspiration to go out and buy insane masses of minis and terrain..... well.... maybe not... ;)
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Fantastic!
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Superb!
That is heartwarming that is. So beautiful and alive. Thanks for sharing and for the inspiration.
My humble village is still very much on the planning stage, so its great to see that Conflix work well with the PMC buildings. I also have a few Armorcast houses in my setup. Now I really have to start basing and laying out the structures.
Again: Thank YOU! for those lovely pictures!
Cheers!
Eric
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PS.
According to Wikipedia:
"The earliest clock tower in Europe was the Salisbury cathedral clock in England, completed in 1306."
and I have seen medieval ones, circa 15th century, in the Czech Republic.
DS
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PS.
According to Wikipedia:
"The earliest clock tower in Europe was the Salisbury cathedral clock in England, completed in 1306."
and I have seen medieval ones, circa 15th century, in the Czech Republic.
DS
Thankyou AM and CB,
Its nice to know these things downunder! 8)
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Fantastic Captain Blood! :-* Thank you for sharing! I would love to see your other
tables set up! ;D
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I'm going to stamp on my cardboard buildings, I couldn't possibly be seen in public with them now. :'(
:o :-* :o :-*
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Richard
The MDF tiles dont warp under all that liquid attention?
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Richard
The MDF tiles dont warp under all that liquid attention?
No - they're all as flat as pancakes.
All my boards are 2' x 2' 8" (slightly over 60cm by 80cm for the metric). Maybe larger sections would give more of a problem?
I always store all the boards flat in a stack, which I'm sure also helps prevent any distortion.
Note - the MDF is actually 5mm thick, although I think they sell it as 4mm for some reason?
Maybe it's also because the initial texturing coat is actually not all that wet? It's more of a paste consistency. Just depends on the proportion of aggregate to paint and PVA.
Also because there's a generous quantity of Unibond (PVA) in the mixture, I guess that acts as a sealant as well as a tough binding agent. It all dries rock hard, and is pretty chip resistant. Wonderful stuff, PVA... :)
Out of interest, it's exactly the same mix I use for basing my figures too. It's really dead simple, and costs very little...
According to Wikipedia:
"The earliest clock tower in Europe was the Salisbury cathedral clock in England, completed in 1306."
Thanks Articman. Good to know I'm (more or less) historically accurate! ;)
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Captain Blood I have to say that is one fine village! Also the stream/River you have running through it has to be some of the most realistic water that I have ever seen used on a game board. I would really love/appreciate
some nice information or a tutorial on how you made those! :-* The water looks great and I love the sandy banks and shallow ford areas!
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I too would be interested in knowing what product you used for the water.
Everything looks very nice, well done!
Consider replacing the "clock" with a watch. I did that in my clock tower. It took a bit to find a suitable looking face, but in the end it looks nice and is functional as well.
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Consider replacing the "clock" with a watch. I did that in my clock tower. It took a bit to find a suitable looking face, but in the end it looks nice and is functional as well.
Wow! That's real dedication - a working clock! lol (unfortunately I'd need two matching watches as there are clocks on opposite faces!)
Also the stream/River you have running through it has to be some of the most realistic water that I have ever seen used on a game board. I would really love/appreciate
some nice information or a tutorial on how you made those! :-*
If I ever make another section, I promise I'll take some 'in progress' photos!
The 'water' is simply good old Woodland Scenics pour on from a bottle 'Realistic Water'. It goes a long way, but you need two or three thin layers to build up a nice shine.
If I may offer a humble opinion on the subject of wargames water - the real trick is to do with colour. A lot of wargamers seem stuck on the childhood picture-book myth that water is blue.
Actually, it hardly ever is.
To the human eye, ponds and rivers are usually mud coloured; still, deep pools (wells, troughs and so on) look more or less black; small streams and brooks are crystal clear; and the sea - whilst being many different colours, often all at the same time - ranges from green through grey to brown, and all shades in between. But hardly ever blue. (Although with a pure sandy bottom, under a bright sun, in the shallows, it can look true aquamarine).
So, my only real tip - never paint your water blue. It instantly looks fake. ;)
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Hi,
Awesome :o:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
I second Lowtar Dog's motion!
Shabbat Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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Sorry I'm late ..
That's gorgeous!!
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Excellent work! However, if its supposed to be a middle-ages village then its nowhere near dirty enough! Where are the gong piles?!
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:-* :o :-* :o o_o :-* :o fantastico!
voglio farlo anch'io!
stupefacente!
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Sikke en gang trådomantik.....
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wow, that is a rather impressive sight, reading back a bit i think you should find those two watches, would take it from being a very impressive board, to a VERY impressive board
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Just come across this post too. Very impressive. There's fair few pennies spent on resin goodies there I wager!
I concur about the water effects, don't paint it blue!
I like the idea of the working clockface, I had been pondering that option myself for one of the front or rear gable facings of my WIP governors mansion for LotHS...
Once again, Excellent stuff.
Scott
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Just saw this and all I can say is WOW!!!! :-*
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Damn beautiful!
What time am I coming over to play? lol
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Wow!!!!!!!!!
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Wow! That's real dedication - a working clock! lol (unfortunately I'd need two matching watches as there are clocks on opposite faces!)
I think you can get small "decorative clocks" (working, mind you) in crafts stores. I don't know, though, how expensive re value for money these will be compared to actual watches.
If I may offer a humble opinion on the subject of wargames water - the real trick is to do with colour. A lot of wargamers seem stuck on the childhood picture-book myth that water is blue.
Actually, it hardly ever is.
To the human eye, ponds and rivers are usually mud coloured; still, deep pools (wells, troughs and so on) look more or less black; small streams and brooks are crystal clear; and the sea - whilst being many different colours, often all at the same time - ranges from green through grey to brown, and all shades in between. But hardly ever blue. (Although with a pure sandy bottom, under a bright sun, in the shallows, it can look true aquamarine).
So, my only real tip - never paint your water blue. It instantly looks fake. ;)
Quite right, there. A lot of your colour perception of water surfaces also seems to depend on your angle of view. To illustrate, a couple of images I took last Saturday from Scarborough Castle, looking north:
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/The%20Yorkshire%20Year/Scarborough_2011-06-25/SCARBOROUGH_2011_06_25_034.jpg)
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/The%20Yorkshire%20Year/Scarborough_2011-06-25/SCARBOROUGH_2011_06_25_036.jpg)
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/The%20Yorkshire%20Year/Scarborough_2011-06-25/SCARBOROUGH_2011_06_25_035.jpg)
Note how the same stretch of bay seems to shift colour between shots, taken from almost the same angle with mere minutes (if not less) in between.
I have to say, though, that I don't mind leaning towards the blue end of the spectrum (figuratively speaking), but one should never omit colour variation. I found blending various hues between layers of varnish or resin gives quite some nice colour variation.
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Great stuff :-*
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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very nice... am considering a conflix building or two for my folk horror stuff... won't need many as it should more countryside than village...