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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: duc de limbourg on November 13, 2021, 11:31:45 PM
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I have build in balsa wood and polystereen based on plastic sheet a kind of early medieval tower which probably will be part of a kind of motte and bailey castle someday.
I had totally no experience in building model so it was a trial and error proces but I think it came out reasonably well.
Some more info on our blog, aldegarde.blogspot.com (http://aldegarde.blogspot.com)
The second picture shows an unpainted Norman figure just for scale
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First effort? That surprises me, this is really good.
Don't let this be a probably.
It's a great start that deserves finishing, even if not straight away, it's already inspiring to those of us with no experience in this corner of the hobby.
There are the remnants of an 11thC motte and bailey near me, it's nice to have something like this to look at and imagine.
Cheers
Ry
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Looks good :)
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WOW!!! Phenomenal! Absolutely gorgeous!
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Very nice indeed
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I'll add one to what has already been said.
There is (the Motte at least) near to me, in the
village of Brinklow (near Coventry) behind the
Church. Your building would scale in well with
the Motte. It would have been difficult to storm,
hard enough to climb now-a-days without any one
lobbing things at you.
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That looks fantastic. Very nice job
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Thanks for all the kind words, much appreciated.
I forgot to mention that I did not know in the beginning how we would use the model; just as background or for skirmishing. So I made the tower in pieces with separate roof, floors (3) and detachable walls.
You can see this in the two pictures
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Well, that just adds a few more layers of awesomeness on a building that already looked great! Hard to believe this is your first time constructing buildings for gaming. Great job!
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Splendid job on your tower,even better as it's modular and a first go!
Best Iain
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I like it! Nice interior detail too.
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Great first attempt - and an interior as well!
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Fantastic work!
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Thanks again for the kind words.
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Fantastic work even for somebody experienced with scratch building. You have every right to be proud.
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Although the tower I made can used as a stand alone wargame piece, I have build a small bailey to go with it. Small because it need to go on a wargame table. Total measurements now are 60*90 cm as we use 60*60 pieces for the table.
The piece is ready for making a wattle fence around the bailey and then the painting can begin.
As I wanted a gate which can be opened on the relative low motte I simply have made one from four pieces of balsa glued together with two ex-pikes from Northstar and some other balsa to make the doorposts etc (see the picture).
Hope you like it
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Brilliant! Fantastic stone work!
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That’s really impressive
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As said earlier, the early medieval tower needed some outworks so i made a small motte on which the tower can be put and after that added a small bailey. Just simple without fancy stuff; a selfmade wattle fence out of cocktail prickers and woven string, a small drawbridge as entrance to the bailey (but this could be manhandeld) and the rest was just sanding, painting and grassing.
The total is a reasonable representation i think.
The first picture the whole castle, the second a close up
So now to making up some buildings; have to figure out how to do it. But that will be part 3
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Lovely :)
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Excellent 8)
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That is some great looking work!
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Thanks for the kind remarks
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Fantastic looking terrain!