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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:21:00 PM

Title: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:21:00 PM
I think there is time to present my Vauban Fort project complete.

Two years before, I managed to construct as many elements as to be able to cover a 1.80m table in a broken line, supported by a second line of fortifications. I made straight walls, bastions, ravelins, gates and 45 and 90 degrees angled corners so that they fit to any desirable layout.

Here are my previous related posts:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=98636.0

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=98652.0

I decided to avoid hours of paintjob, trying to construct the whole thing from cardboard, cork and covering with printed paper I managed to work with Photoshop so as to give a realistic look. The judgement is yours.
Here is the entrance discussed in Part 1, combined with the rest of the fort elements

Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:21:41 PM
A bastion. All the elements are hollow, very light, yet sturdy.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:28:48 PM
I know what you think: The parapets and the walkway are very short for A Vauban construction. Yes, but this is not a maquette or a diorama reconstruction of a Vauban fort, it would be more voluminous and the whole fort complex would dominate the wargame table.
What I had in mind was to give the minimal dimensions needed for playability without... insulting completely the aesthetics of the Vauban architecture, I am a devoted fan. 
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:32:24 PM
Rear view of the main gate. The windows may look real, but they are paper.
The pics of these windows were taken from my visits at the old city of Nafplion.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:43:06 PM
The second line of fortifications. The grand bastion, discussed in Part 2.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:45:45 PM
A close shot of the second line gate
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:51:49 PM
A damaged wall and outer ravelin. The rubble is cork and earth.
Here, I would like to mention the valuable help of my colleague Miltiades, who made the finishing touch (weathering, drybrush etc).
Miltiades is an old friend with whom we alternate the roles of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, depending on whose folly is the project in progress  lol
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 08 March 2017, 10:55:32 PM
Some more shots of the main gate
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Etranger on 09 March 2017, 02:00:11 AM
Now that is an impressive piece of work! Looks great and practical too.  :o
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: miltiades on 09 March 2017, 05:05:48 AM
A damaged wall and outer ravelin. The rubble is cork and earth.
Here, I would like to mention the valuable help of my colleague Miltiades, who made the finishing touch (weathering, drybrush etc).
Miltiades is an old friend with whom we alternate the roles of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, depending on whose folly is the project in progress  lol

. Thanks Dinos. Your work is superb. Now lets focus on the game. 
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Leapsnbounds on 09 March 2017, 06:25:14 AM
I would be happy to besiege the place, I love the rubble sections.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: JArgo on 09 March 2017, 06:44:07 AM
Outstanding.  Thanks for sharing. 

Enjoy the games!
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 07:37:00 AM
Now that is an impressive piece of work! Looks great and practical too.  :o

One is amazed to see how complex and elaborate a real Vauban fort is...
And a dazzling terminology!
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Shipka on 09 March 2017, 07:40:48 AM
Love the build, itvwould look good as part of the Defence of Rome 1849
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 09:17:53 AM
. Thanks Dinos. Your work is superb. Now lets focus on the game. 

If you mean the Siege of Vienna, 1683, yes my friend, the time has come!
I'll use my magic powers to summon our generals, you, may use Facebook instead  ;)
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 09:25:27 AM
I would be happy to besiege the place, I love the rubble sections.

Thank you! I dont know how practical it is, but, to be as realistic possible, I made these sections intact at first place and then I had to destroy them with a sharp knife  ::)
The wall sections, being hollow, were filled in the gap with toilet paper soaked in PVA glue, then, covered with earth and (cork) bricks.
The destroyed ravelin earthworks had to be literally excavated without destroying the paperwork! (I put on purpose layers of cork underneath).
Then, Miltiades put the supports of the trenches, the earth and finished the job with painting and drybrushing.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Guldor on 09 March 2017, 11:38:21 AM
 :-* :-* The first general is here.

Your work is..............  no comment  :-* :-*
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 12:02:45 PM
Love the build, itvwould look good as part of the Defence of Rome 1849

Thank you! I admit I have no knowledge about the period, I shall try to read, maybe you could provide some useful links.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 12:04:05 PM
:-* :-* The first general is here.

Your work is..............  no comment  :-* :-*

You see? I summoned you immediately! I'm a magician  lol
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 12:25:54 PM
Outstanding.  Thanks for sharing. 

Enjoy the games!

Thank you!
I promise a fully illustrated AAR
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Marine0846 on 09 March 2017, 04:51:33 PM
Wow, great work.
Looks be perfect for gaming.
Can't wait to see on the table in a game.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 09 March 2017, 07:11:36 PM
Wow, great work.
Looks be perfect for gaming.
Can't wait to see on the table in a game.

This is a great work!
And my poor effort is a payment of respect to this great engineer.
The second photo is an ideal Vauban fort, Neuf-Brisach
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Byblos on 10 March 2017, 09:33:13 PM
Hi Din & Miltiades

A magnifique work : a very original idea , and you made it with brio  :-*
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 10 March 2017, 09:42:05 PM
Hi Din & Miltiades

A magnifique work : a very original idea , and you made it with brio  :-*

Thank you! I started with the decision to make just only a bastion and three or four straight sections for my Siege of Vienna 1683 project and... we have a proverb: The more you eat, the more your appetite grows... and I feel I haven't finished with it yet  :P 
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: S_P on 11 March 2017, 06:45:38 PM
Really like that.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 14 March 2017, 10:31:27 PM
Really like that.

Thank you!
For any one who would like to make a paper ramp, here is a drawing I made for the ramp of the big bastion.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: juergen c. olk on 15 March 2017, 01:43:24 AM
impressive build..love all the little details..
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: Mattias on 15 March 2017, 09:42:41 AM
Beautiful!
I've considered building some Vauban sections myself and as you say it is (as with almost all builings in wargaming) a matter of "shrinking" it to not dominate a table too much. I think you've captured it beautifully.
/Mattias
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 15 March 2017, 12:45:51 PM
impressive build..love all the little details..

Thank you! Papercraft helped a lot. And it took the free afternoons of three months. With paintjob it would be very difficult to finish it in the same time span.
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 15 March 2017, 08:59:47 PM
Beautiful!
I've considered building some Vauban sections myself and as you say it is (as with almost all builings in wargaming) a matter of "shrinking" it to not dominate a table too much. I think you've captured it beautifully.
/Mattias

I greet you as a supporter of the same idea...
I may share with you (or anyone interested) how I made a section of the fort. A gun platform.
Have a look first at the pics below

(see also A Vauban fort (Part 4))
  http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=98709.0
Title: Re: A Vauban fort (Part 3) - Complete
Post by: DintheDin on 15 March 2017, 09:11:06 PM
Here is the template.
The two side profiles and the template of the walkway.
I designed the gun platform for 15mm, to hold easily two gun bases 4x4cm.

If you print it right away from the pic given, I'm not sure if it'll give the desired dimensions.
So, you may copy it in a Word file and change the dimensions for the scale you wish.

Keeping the same profiles, you may create as many straight sections as you like.
If you wish to have a wider parapet or walkway, you may redesign the middle and rear profile sections.
The inclination of the front section wall is IMO quite good, as you may judge from the other pics.

For the middle section of the profile you may use a rigid yet soft material, as cork or foam board, so as to carve the gun ports easily.