Maori pa under attack!

[Arteis]

My Maori pa experiment has succeeded - well, I think so, anyway.  Check my blog to see what you think?  

http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/maori-pa-under-attack/

Sample pics:

[Poiter50]

Marvellous, Roly, I love how that project is coming along.

[Westfalia Chris]

Excellent work, especially the little touches and how well the bases line up. The irregularity irks me, but that is just me, and as you wrote, it's required by historical precedent.

[marianas_gamer]

Looks great and compliments those nicely painted minis
LB

[Captain Blood]

The irregularity irks me

Ah, Chris, you are a true German after all 

Very nice scene Arteis.

[Lowtardog]

Lovely work.

[Westfalia Chris]

Ah, Chris, you are a true German after all  

Don't get me wrong, I like cozy little villages like the next man, with cottages scattered here and there and the sheriff can take his zoning laws and shove them.

But for palisades, I really prefer the "nice and tight" variety. I recently saw "The New World" for the first time (as part of a project which I recently started, but haven't had the time to document yet), and while the rest of the film looked awesome, those ramshackle palisades nearly spoiled it for me.   It might also be a matter of scale, as for gaming pieces, the loose variety evokes a "fence" thing rather than "palisade wall" in my wind.

I hope to do a bit of palisaded forts for 17c Colonial America soon, so you can rip away at those, how unrealistic they are etc., as a response.

[Plynkes]

I guess you better not go looking into the palisades of East African bomas then, Chris. You'll give yourself a conniption. 

[Arteis]

Maori didn't go for nice and tight palisades. ;-) 

In fact, this was one of their strengths, as cannonballs would often pass through, breaking maybe a few palings, but they would just swing back on their lashings, then fall back into place.  Some pas, to stop musket bullets, did wrap their fences in flax screens.

The fences were more of an obstacle (akin to barbed wire a generation or two later), with the real defence being the trench.

[Marine0846]

So do we get a little how-to make it ?
Please.
Like the look, hope to see it finished soon.

[H.M.Stanley]

I think you can safely say that your project is a success .. 

[Keith]

Brilliant!

[commissarmoody]

Nicely done sir.

[aggro84]

Very nice. I'd call the walls a definite success. 

[carlos marighela]

Beautiful work Roly.