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Author Topic: Not-So Merry England: UD 6/2 Hedge Gates  (Read 84174 times)

Offline Atheling

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 27/12 Monastery wip
« Reply #510 on: December 29, 2020, 10:36:43 AM »
Excellent  8)

Love the table top drone shot  :D

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Not-So Merrye England: UD 1/1 Monastery and river wip
« Reply #511 on: January 01, 2021, 05:43:27 PM »
 Thanks :D

Xmas and NYE have impacted productivity, mainly because I’m short of milliput and greenstuff and the post really is in arrears.  :'(

Anyways, I’ve taken the monastery as far as I can for the time being:







Though I’ve also been working on the river and bridge, which will be essential components of the next battle. A few more layers of varnish to apply then it will be on with the growies.







Both the monastery and the bridge are by Debris of War. I also have a big pile of bits to make a manor house, a post windmill and there’s also the church to finish. Plus more scrubland and woods.

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 1/1 Monastery and river wip
« Reply #512 on: January 01, 2021, 07:01:24 PM »
Stop drinking and eating and get on with it  ;D
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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 1/1 Monastery and river wip
« Reply #513 on: January 01, 2021, 07:07:57 PM »
That’s a good looking bridge  :)

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 1/1 Monastery and river wip
« Reply #514 on: January 02, 2021, 05:49:14 AM »
I like that murky water- very nice.

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #515 on: January 05, 2021, 08:50:26 PM »
Thanks all :)

I’ve now finished the river and laid out the mat - the ripples in which are really annoying me! - for a few photos:










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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #516 on: January 05, 2021, 11:14:13 PM »
Lovely  :)

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #517 on: January 05, 2021, 11:32:31 PM »
Brilliant work :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #518 on: January 06, 2021, 02:05:51 AM »
Very Nice - I'm sure those ripples will level out if left for a while  :)
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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #519 on: January 06, 2021, 08:01:16 AM »
Great photos and lovely terrain, as always.

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #520 on: January 06, 2021, 09:27:21 AM »
I've no experience of making battle matts so I'm not really qualified to comment but the hand made versions I've seen in varoous club usage have levelled out.

I actually kind of like the undulations etc. Makes it look more real, at least in the pics. :)

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #521 on: January 06, 2021, 09:40:36 AM »
Thanks all. :D

Regarding the ripples in the mat, when they arise from it being rolled for storage they do indeed flatten out. The ones I dislike - because they’re usually in the wrong place and upset the lie of my terrain - are bumps arising from the plastic-backed fabric having become stretched in places by handling. In due course - if I can’t get the foam terrain boards finished in a reasonable time scale - I’ll probably make another mat but use canvas as the base material.

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #522 on: January 06, 2021, 10:37:58 AM »
The ripples are intolerable. The river looks rather good ;)

(Not entirely convinced by the ford - that narrowing looks a tad unnatural? Wouldn’t water, being so compressed, churn through there?)

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #523 on: January 06, 2021, 10:42:55 AM »
You could try to iron out the ripples. Put some cloth over the mat and then iron it.

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Re: Not-So Merrye England: UD 5/1 Finished River
« Reply #524 on: January 06, 2021, 01:13:36 PM »
Thanks chaps.  :)

The ‘Olde Forde’ is something that I’m not entirely pleased with. My usual take on a ford is that it’d be wider and shallower than the adjacent river, resulting in a drop in the rate of flow, the accumulation of debris, the presence of reed beds, etc. But I don’t have the table space to do that.  :-[ Thus this compromise of a bottleneck, perhaps resulting from underlying geology or from dumping, where the water flows faster but it’s depth is much shallower. As fords go, it’d not be ideal but that’s why the bridge got built. Perhaps I could’ve resolved this conundrum by making the river less steeply banked but I wanted the river to look like it might be an impediment, thus the suggestion of depth rather than it being a shallow splash through.  :?

Regarding the ripples in the mat, I don’t think ironing will work. The problem is that the mat is stretched in the middle rather than at the edges; I really need the centre to shrink whereas I fear ironing will have the opposite effect. In fact, the material arrived folded and I ironed it to remove  some massive creases. Due to the plastic backing, I believe I actually initiated the problem by ironing the creases out from pronounced ridges to smooth bellows.  :'(

 

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