A small chapel (wip)

[Turbo-Ben]

I started building a small chapel for our new thirty years war project. Inspiration came from various early romanic chapels and I tried to get the stone to look like the red sandstone you find in the area where I live and where our project will be located.
There are lots of cities and villages that date back to roman settlements around here, so I decided to use a very old building as the centerpiece for my later village or monastery or whatever it will be when its finished.

The interior will remain grey but I want to add an altar and some banks and maybe I'll have to do something with the flooring as its bare sand at the moment.
 




c&c welcome!

[Jase]

Beautiful! The stone looks particularly convincing, how did you do that?

[Dr DeAth]

Exceptionally good 

[Modhail]

I have to agree with the above posters, that is some exceptional stonework!
A tutorial would be much appreciated. 

[Turbo-Ben]

Not much to say about how I built it.

I cut a lot of stones in about 4-5 different sizes from Styrofoam. When that's done you have to squezze them in your hands to make them look older and not as regular as thez come from the cutter. Then I built it with whiteglue as mortar. When it was dry I applied a coat of black colour, sand ans woodglue mostly where have been gaps between the stones. When that was dried, just spraypaint in black and a second soft layer in white and paint the single stones. I mixed my stonecolour mainly from saddlebrown and red, and some ochre, Brown, white and pink for the different stones. At the end a simple drybrush with a mix of the main colour and white over the whole building makes it come together.

[Modhail]

Thank you!
That sounds surprisingly straightforward for such a convincing effect. Did you use a foam-safe spray, or does the paint/woodglue mix provide enough protection on its own?

[Mason]

A beautiful finish.
Most impressed.
 

[Turbo-Ben]

Thank you!
That sounds surprisingly straightforward for such a convincing effect. Did you use a foam-safe spray, or does the paint/woodglue mix provide enough protection on its own?

I realized it only after the second building that my spray was not safe on foam, on the first one the mix protected it all. Here at the chapel there are one or two spots where I hadn't applied it thick enough and where the spay attacked it.
But I like the effect if its not too much as it makes the stone look more interesting.

[Captain Blood]

I like that very much 

[Constable Bertrand]

That looks very convincing! Nice build methodology.

Cheers
Matt.

[Duke Donald]

This looks amazing!

The only spray I've found which doesn't attach foam at all are the Tamiya ones; the downside is that they are quite expensive.

[Turbo-Ben]

Thanks guys!

This looks amazing!

The only spray I've found which doesn't attach foam at all are the Tamiya ones; the downside is that they are quite expensive.

I don't know where you are but at least in germany you get waterbased spraycans in every DIY store. But I have also used the spray from GW or Vallejo when at hand. I usually just don't buy these for terrain.

[Suber]

I concur with everyone else, the effect is superb!

[The-closet-gamer]

What style are you planing to finish the roof in? Epic work so far.

[Turbo-Ben]

What style are you planing to finish the roof in? Epic work so far.

I'll go for tiles.
There was a tutorial in the last wargames illustrated about building a medieval english church, and while I didn't go for the way they did the stonework I like how they did the roof.